Sentences with phrase «ecology professor at»

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.

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).

«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.

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.

Not exact matches

Neil Postman, professor of «media ecology» at New York University, estimated recently that children in America see 750,000 TV commercials during the formative period of their lives from six to 18.

«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.

As a professor of ecology and biology at the University of Montana in Missoula, he had spent 20 years examining the mating and territorial behavior of dung and rhinoceros beetles, well known for their very large horns, to understand why some insects spend so much energy building big weapons.

She has experience putting this into practice at the Institute on the Environment, where Hellmann is the director (she is also a professor of ecology, evolution and behavior at the University of Minnesota, where the institute is located).

Jessica Hellmann, director of the Institute on the Environment and professor of ecology, evolution, and behavior at the University of Minnesota, discussed her experience with creating change in academic cultures.

«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.

Yet nagging doubts remain, stoked by two persistent skeptics: David Pimentel, a professor of ecology and agricultural sciences at Cornell University, and Tad Patzek, a professor of geoengineering from the University of California at Berkeley who started the UC Oil Consortium, an industry - sponsored research group.

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

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

«Wolves rely on large prey to survive,» said Benson, assistant professor of vertebrate ecology who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Trent University.

The assumption was logical, but unproven, says study author Ben Zuckerberg, an associate professor of wildlife ecology at UW - Madison.

Stuart Sandin, a professor of marine ecology at Scripps, who is Edwards» PhD advisor and senior author on the paper, says the mosaic technology can help scientists» understanding of marine ecology catch up with their knowledge of terrestrial ecology.

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.

Ken Caldera A professor at Stanford and staff member in the department of global ecology at the Carnegie Institution of Washington, Caldeira works at the nexus of climate, the carbon cycle, and energy.

«Real economics is the study of how people transform nature to meet their needs,» said Charles Hall, professor of systems ecology at SUNY - ESF and organizer of both gatherings in Syracuse.

«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.

Hoy, Peterson and their collaborator John Vucetich, a professor of ecology at Michigan Tech, suggest the trends reflect a population in transition.

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

«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.

«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.

«Plots with many species are much less prone to big dives in productivity from year to year,» says Peter Reich, a coauthor of the study and a professor of ecology at the University of Minnesota.

This bond may be linked to your dog's behavior, according to a study by Christy L. Hoffman, PhD, assistant professor of animal behavior, ecology and conservation at Canisius College.

Christy Hoffman, PhD, is an assistant professor of animal behavior, ecology and conservation, at Canisius College and also teaches in the college's master's program in anthrozoology.

«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.

«It could conceivably have removed up to one sixth of the monarchs in the overwintering colonies,» says Orley Taylor, a professor in the department of systematics and ecology at the University of Kansas, who has been studying monarch butterflies since the early 1990s and directs the MonarchWatch organization.

The findings, published recently in the peer - reviewed academic journal Nature Communications, show periodically flooded soils may actually lose organic matter at accelerated rates, said Steven Hall, an assistant professor of ecology, evolution and organismal biology and corresponding author of the study.

A moist prairie plant, it has dwindled due to fire - suppression and agriculture, said Scot Duncan, a biology professor at Birmingham - Southern College and author of Southern Wonder, a book on Southern ecology.

And that's not an impossible task,» says Dan Richter, professor of soils and ecology at Duke University.

«We all know that some percentage are way off on the tail end of the distribution, and we're never going to reach them,» says Steven Rissing, a professor of evolution, ecology, and organismal biology and a specialist in undergraduate education at Ohio State University, Columbus.

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

For Alexander Mikheyev, assistant professor in the ecology and evolution unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Okinawa, Japan, it's a familiar problem.

«They nest in large, densely packed, noisy colonies and often gang up on a predator,» says Pat Monaghan, a professor of animal ecology at the University of Glasgow in the UK.

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.

«In a previous study focused on identification of the first cells in the nervous system to fail during aging of this reflex we found that sensory neuron aging drives aging of the circuit, said Lynne Fieber, associate professor of marine biology and ecology at the UM Rosenstiel School.

Professor Andrew Scott, one of the lead authors, said: «High oxygen levels in the atmosphere at this time has been proposed for some time and may be why there were giant insects and arthropods at this time but our research indicates that there was a significant impact on the prevalence and scale of wildfires across the globe and this would have affected not only the ecology of the plants and animals but also their evolution.»

Bay mussels play a key ecological role in the natural world, said Brian Gaylord, a professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis, Bodega Marine Laboratory.

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

This is Malin Pinsky, assistant professor of ecology and evolution in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences at Rutgers University.

The coauthors are Alexander Y. Karatayev, director of the center; Christopher Pennuto, a research associate with the center and biology professor at Buffalo State; and Christine Mayer, associate professor of ecology at the University of Toledo.

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.

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

Many emission factors used to estimate releases of methane — a potent greenhouse gas associated with oil and natural gas development — are «far too low,» says Robert Howarth, an ecology and environmental biology professor at Cornell University.

«No other species we've looked at shows lengthening telomeres,» says Carol Vleck, an associate professor in the university's department of ecology, evolution, and organismal biology and leader of the team.

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.

«Although it is known that herbivory and competition are relevant for plant establishment, the response of many plants to those factors is rarely measured due to the large amount of work,» comments Markus Fischer, professor of plant ecology at the University of Bern.