Sentences with phrase «ecology and evolutionary biology at»

Langham led tours until he was 38, using the gigs to fund a 20 - year trek through undergrad, a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell, and a post-doc in Australia, where he first delved into climate modeling, investigating how shifts over millennia affected seven lizard species.

Mark Hunter is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan, and he joined us today.

That's why I love the ongoing experiment in learning being conducted by Margaret Rubega, who teaches ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Connecticut and has employed Twitter as a learning and communication tool in her ornithology syllabus.

«Our lack of effective policies can be attributed, in part, to a lack of good on - farm data about what's happening with nutrient input and loss over time,» said a co-author, Alan Townsend, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado - Boulder.

Dr. Marc Bekoff — professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and co-founder (with primatologist Jane Goodall) of Ethologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals — argues that the same brain mechanisms that control moral behavior in humans also control such behavior in other mammals.

If current trends continue, 20 percent of all lizard species could go extinct by 2080, according to Barry Sinervo, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Jonsson will succeed Louis J. Gross, who is continuing on as a professor of mathematics and ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Tennessee (UT) in Knoxville, a position he has held concurrently with the NIMBioS directorship since 2008.

Moreover, the guppies extend their gestation during the exact period when their offspring are maturing their feeding capabilities most quickly, said lead author Terry Dial, a postdoctoral researcher in ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University.

«Our findings were quite surprising because females typically just select sperm from males of their own species during fertilization, an action that does not lead to long - term consequences because there is no gene flow between the species,» said Asher Cutter, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Toronto.

A multitude of interacting factors are driving the increase in Lyme disease cases, but their relative importance remains unclear, according to Marm Kilpatrick, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

«Greg Zolnerowich, professor of entomology, and Doug Goodin, professor of geography, were extremely helpful in providing data for our models, and Townsend Peterson, university distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at KU, provided much valuable help by sharing his years of experience in using such models to realistically predict species distributions,» Raghavan said.

Robert Pringle, an assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and co-author of the Science paper, said that the unexpected function of termites in savannas and grasslands suggests that ants, prairie dogs, gophers and other mound - building creatures could also have important roles in ecosystem health.

Only 39 of these viral populations were similar to previously known viruses, said Matthew Sullivan, a senior author on one of the Tara papers and an associated professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.

Data and analytical tools were provided by Adam Pellegrini, a Princeton graduate student of ecology and evolutionary biology; Lawren Sack and Megan Bartlett, a professor and graduate student, respectively, of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California - Los Angeles; Brendan Choat, a senior lecturer at the Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment at Western Sydney University in Australia and Steven Jansen, professor of botany at Ulm University in Germany.

«It's a real surprise,» says Jeff Powell, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Yale University in Connecticut, US.

The species are important for both ecological and economic reasons, according to Eric Palkovacs, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and first author of the paper.

It's a really difficult problem to solve, and not just in biology,» said coauthor John Thompson, distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

Joy Ward, Ph.D., studies ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.

Marc Bekoff is professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Previous work by coauthor Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz, had shown that the bison populations north and south of the ice sheets were genetically distinct by the time the corridor opened.

«This is a remarkable case of extreme degeneration of an animal body plan,» said Paulyn Cartwright, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at KU and principal investigator on the research project.

«The evolutionary distance between the extinct stilt - legged horses and all living horses took us by surprise, but it presented us with an exciting opportunity to name a new genus of horse,» said senior author Beth Shapiro, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

says Glen MacDonald, a professor of geography, ecology and evolutionary biology at UCLA.

«It makes sense, because the coast is a much more complicated environment, whereas the open ocean is more homogeneous and the features are more spread out in space and time,» said coauthor Daniel Costa, a distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.

«It's mostly a matter of not dying,» Stephen Ellner, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell University, said with a wry smile.

Marc Bekoff is an emeritus professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

«As we move from the temperature we're at to warmer temperatures, it could be a smooth line or temperature change could be bouncing all around,» said Sax, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown.

Not exact matches

Richard Prum is a professor of ornithology, ecology and evolutionary biology and head curator of vertebrate zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

I entered graduate school with a background in anthropology and biology, joining the world - renowned department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University to pursue a PhD in great ape behavioral ecology.

Twenty - first century science is driven, in large part, by challenges at interfaces, including those between the environmental and life sciences — public health, ecology, genomics, cell biology, epidemiology, immunology, neurobiology, physiology, evolutionary biology... and the mathematical sciences.

«Cholera is sort of a poster child for a climate variability - sensitive disease,» said Aaron King, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and of mathematics at the University of Michigan.

Christakis is a professor of sociology, ecology & evolutionary biology, biomedical engineering, and medicine at Yale.

Lemurs vocalize to essentially «groom - at - a-distance» and keep in touch when the group members they're closest with get separated such as when foraging for food, said first author Ipek Kulahci, who received her Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology from Princeton.

After comparing contemporary survey data with 40 years of historical benchmarks, Cascade Sorte, assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology at UCI, and colleagues from around the U.S. report that the blue mussel numbers have declined by more than 60 percent along the gulf coastline, which stretches from Cape Cod north to the Canadian border.

Brown and another UCLA doctoral student in ecology and evolutionary biology, Mairin Balisi, analyzed more than 35,000 bones from saber - toothed cats and dire wolves over six months at the La Brea Tar Pits» George C. Page Museum.

The study's co-authors are William Platt, professor of biology at Louisiana State University, and Louis Gross, director of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee.

Training for the program's students will support learning and research at the interface of different fields of biology and will emphasize analysis of large datasets and communication skills as well as fundamental research in ecology and evolutionary biology.

«Every day human beings make choices among multiple options in how to respond to various social situations,» says lead author of the current study Sergey Gavrilets, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in a statement.

Atsushi Nakabachi, a postdoctoral research associate in UA's department of ecology and evolutionary biology and a visiting scientist at RIKEN in Wako, Japan, is the first author on the research report, «The 160 - kilobase genome of the bacterial endosymbiont Carsonella.»

Alan R. Townsend -LRB-[email protected]-RRB- is professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

His PhD research at the University of Oxford used ecology and evolutionary biology to test the importance of dispersal, interspecific competition and habitat for explaining biodiversity patterns in South American birds.