Sentences with phrase «ecology professor»

An "ecology professor" is a person who teaches about the relationships between living organisms and their environment, such as plants, animals, and their surrounding ecosystems. Full definition
An international research team including Mark van Kleunen, ecology professor at the University of Konstanz, shows for the first time how ties to different habitats control the human - induced spread of European plant species on other continents.
«We knew that mercury can disrupt hormones — what is most disturbing about this study is the low levels of mercury at which we saw effects on hormones and mating behavior,» said Peter Frederick, a UF wildlife ecology professor who led the five - year study, in a university press release.
Daniel MacNulty, a wildlife ecology professor who studies Arctic wolves and was interviewed about the realistic nature of wolves in Into the Grey, stated, «If I was lucky enough to encounter a large male gray wolf in the wild, he would turn and run...».
Gaston Small, an assistant professor at the University of St. Thomas, and Robert Sterner, a fellow CBS ecology professor, co-authored the study.
Lead author of the warning letter and new response paper, ecology Professor William Ripple at Oregon State University said: «Our scientists» warning to humanity has clearly struck a chord with both the global scientific community and the public.»
UC Davis evolution and ecology professor Rick Grosberg and Vermeij delved into this problem from an interdisciplinary perspective.
In Flock of Dodos, a former evolutionary ecology professor expresses sharp - witted frustration with his colleagues — over poker — for their failure to defend themselves against the proponents of intelligent design.
University of Montana forest ecology Professor Andrew Larson recently published research estimating the abundance of morel mushrooms after a wildfire in California's Sierra Nevada.
Editor's Note: Stephen W. Pacala, a member of Climate Central's board of directors and a Princeton University ecology professor, is one of this study's 13 co-authors.
«Clearly, the authors are not advocating removing free - ranging cats softly, nor are they advocating any form of euthanasia or mercy killing,» emeritus ecology professor Marc Bekoff writes on the Huffington Post.
A Cornell ecology professor fears that we may not be many years away from an environmental tipping point — and disaster.
Now, some of the same researchers, this time led by Pamela Martinez, a graduate student at the University of Chicago, and ecology professor Mercedes Pascual, are taking a look at how climate variability within Dhaka might affect rotavirus.
Experienced beekeepers know how to handle a hive that turns aggressive, but «the worry is if someone just doesn't pay attention,» UCLA ecology professor Peter Nonacs says.
«When we talk about fisheries» catch, we're talking about what fishers are aiming to catch,» explained Rebecca Lewison, an ecology professor at San Diego State University's Coastal Marine Institute Laboratory, who led the study with biology professor Larry Crowder of Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station and Center for Ocean Solutions.
Despite their disadvantages, however, monocultures remain the principal crop form and are regarded as the sole possibility of achieving higher yields in plant production — quite wrongfully, finds Bernhard Schmid, an ecology professor at the University of Zurich, who advocates a novel form of agriculture and forestry.
Not long afterward, Bang partnered with Penny Chisholm, an ecology professor at MIT, to write the next title in the Sunlight series, Living Sunlight: How Plants Bring the Earth to Life (2009), followed by Ocean Sunlight: How Tiny Plants Feed the Seas (2012), and Buried Sunlight: How Fossil Fuels Have Changed the Earth (2014).
Just one example illustrating Twitter's under - appreciated potential is provided by Margaret Rubega, an ecology professor at the University of Connecticut.
A study conducted this past year by David Tilman, an ecology professor at the University of Minnesota, had demonstrated the potential for polycultures of multiple grass, prairie and wildflower species to serve as an alternative to switchgrass in producing ethanol.
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