Sentences with phrase «ecosystem ecology»

Ecosystem ecology is the study of how living organisms, like plants and animals, interact with their non-living environment, such as water, air, and soil. It focuses on understanding how these interactions within ecosystems affect the flow of energy, cycling of nutrients, and the overall balance of life in a particular area. Full definition
Holgerson and co-author Peter Raymond, professor of ecosystem ecology at Yale, conducted their analysis by combining recent estimates on the global number of lakes and ponds with a compilation of direct measurements of CO2 and CH4 concentrations from 427 lakes and ponds.
While punitive measures are being considered, Steve Hamilton, a professor of ecosystem ecology at the Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University who served on an EPA advisory committee for the cleanup, said the river has mostly returned to its former state.
Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics — where much of global forest productivity occurs — indicates that the increased rainfall that may occur with climate change would cause declines in plant growth.
It's a long story, but the summary is that this controversy marked a shift from relying on ecosystem ecology to support environmental claims, to instead using population ecology (like models of striped bass populations) to make predictions of impacts.
This is a very common scaling approach in ecosystem ecology
Co-author Matthew Bowker, assistant professor of forest soils and ecosystem ecology at Northern Arizona University, was involved with the project since 2009.
The study, led by Michigan State University professor of ecosystem ecology and GLBRC scientist Stephen Hamilton, is the first multi-year effort to compare the water use of conventional corn crops to the perennial cropping systems of switchgrass, miscanthus, native grasses, restored prairies and hybrid poplar trees.
Professor Osborne added: «Understanding how the C4 photosynthetic pathway changes plant growth is crucially important for plant evolution, crop production and ecosystem ecology.
And as a result, ecosystem ecology had to often take a back seat whenever environmentalists used science to support their claims.
ESM 201 - Ecology of Managed Ecosystems [4 units] Tilman Principles of individual ecology, population ecology, community ecology, and ecosystem ecology.
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