Sentences with phrase «ecosystem research»

The Trump Administration would sharply curtail funding for climate R&D and land use change activities, and would scale back investments in ecosystems research and natural hazards science, among other areas.

The facility has conducted ecosystems research at the 58 lakes in a remote, northwestern area of the province near the city of Kenora since 1968.

Although the panel released few details, the statement said that those lower priorities include climate change and ecosystem research programs at USGS, which would see its budget drop by $ 101 million to $ 967 million; the Obama administration's request was $ 1.2 billion.

Daintree is just one of the sites in Australia's Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), an information - sharing organization that collects, manages, and shares data on flora, fauna, and other environmental factors to capture snapshots of what key wilderness ecosystems look like now and measure the potential effects of climate change.

This time around, the scientists tapped the vastly improved satellite imagery from Google Earth, which covered more than 210,000 dryland sites, and ground data gathered by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network to carry out a new global analysis of dryland forest cover.

Dr Aaron Davis from the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER) at JCU said the phenomenon, known as convergent evolution, happens when different fish adopt similar lifestyles and evolve through time to look very similar.

Eben Paxton of the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and colleagues looked at population trends for seven species of native forest birds living on Kauai's Alakai Plateau, the eroded crater of a long - extinct volcano.

«This clearly shows that plastic is in our food chain,» says Pete Davison of Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research in California.

Scientists from the BOREA Biology of Aquatic Organisms and Ecosystems research unit (CNRS / MNHN / IRD / UPMC / University of Caen / Université des Antilles)-- together with a colleague from the Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology in Marburg, Germany — have shown that Parisian street gutters are oases of microscopic life, home to microalgae, fungi, sponges, and mollusks [1].

Rabies Research Unit, Southern Terrestrial Ecosystems Research Section, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, Canada.

The Climate Analysis and Monitoring theme updates the database with non real - time data on a semi-monthly or as - available basis to bring in observations from BC Hydro, Ministry of Agriculture, Ministry of Forests Lands and Natural Resource Operations and Rural Development's Forest Ecosystem Research network and Environment and Climate Change Canada's data that are not available from the near real - time feed.

By 1998, the population was estimated to have increased to 2,280 (95 % CL, 1,160 — 4,500), based on sighting surveys conducted under the auspices of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) during the International Decade of Cetacean Research and Southern Ocean Whale and Ecosystem research cruises (IDCR / SOWER)[5].

This policy brief (2018) reports on a recent study, implemented by RUAF Foundation and supported by the Food & Business Knowledge Platform (F&BKP) and the CGIAR Water, Land and Ecosystems Research Program (WLE / IWMI), on the role of the private sector in building more sustainable and resilient city region food systems.

«Yes, animals are eating it,» says oceanographer Peter Davison of the Farallon Institute for Advanced Ecosystem Research in Petaluma, California, who was not involved in the study.

The Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna has gathered an exceptional number of renowned experts over the past years with complementary research areas in microbial ecology, functional genomics and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem research.

LCSB director Prof. Dr. Rudi Balling recognizes in ecosystems research an important basis for medical issues: «Paul Wilmes and his group have here corroborated fundamental concepts of ecology with comprehensive numerical data for the first time.

«So far, it has not been sufficiently tested whether and how successful fecal transplantation is for the permanent settlement of microbiota from a healthy donor to a patient,» said Alexander Loy of the Department of Microbiology and Ecosystem Research, University of Vienna.

While such a program would contribute to basic community and ecosystem research, it also has significant implications for ecological conservation and restoration.

«Biofuel production also shows promise for directly offsetting some reliance on fossil fuels,» says Stephen Ogle, an ecosystem research scientist at Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

The project was funded by the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative's SOAR (Synthesis, Observations and Response) Project, the U-M Water Center, the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research and NOAA.

Models were developed by scientists at NOAA's National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS), the University of Michigan, LimnoTech, the University of Michigan Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, and the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL).

Funded by the U.S. Department of Energy Program for Ecosystem Research and the National Science Foundation, the long - term experiment looked at the interactions ants exhibit over nesting structures in two distinctly different geographical areas.

Eventually, this led to further knowledge in ecosystem research and limnology.

Based on an initial reading of the budget, it appears that all $ 250 million would apply to NOAA's research office, which pursues an array of climate and ecosystem research, and which would be effectively cut in half (though more will be revealed with the full request).

The topic for each talk will be specifically on Acoustics, both passive and active, emphasizing applications and technological developments relevant to fisheries and ecosystem research / management and protected species conservation (i.e., relevant to the NMFS mandate).

Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland work together to explore the possibilities of realizing a Nordic E-Science Infrastructure for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research.

Affiliations Cormec, Cergy, France, Catchment to Reef Research Group, Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia

So when temperatures rise, disease breaks out or invasive species spread, diversity protects and buffers against the changes, said Bradley Cardindale, director of the Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research at the University of Michigan - Ann Arbor.

The research vessel, Yushin - Maru No. 3arrived in Shiogama Harbour on 9 September 2013 after completing the fourth annual IWC - POWER (International Whaling Commission - Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research) survey.

The International Whaling Commission - Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research (IWC - POWER) programme is a long - term, international collaboration studying cetacean populations in the North Pacific, including some areas which have not been surveyed for 40 years.

Scientists from these agencies will undertake programs in climate modelling, atmosphere radiation measurement, atmospheric science, the terrestrial carbon cycle, the ocean carbon cycle, and ecosystem research program, and finally will produce an integrated assessment, according to Dr. Raymond Orbach, the Energy Department's director of the Office of Science.

The ship is part of the Pacific Ocean Whale and Ecosystem Research program, a collaborative effort headed by the International Whaling Commission.

Both climate and ecosystem research is important, as our ocean temperatures and pH change.

Ecosystems research at this time was identifying the responses to climate change and CO2 increases, as well as altered CH4 and N2O fluxes from natural systems; however, in terms of a community assessment it remained qualitative.

For three decades, Chris Field has pioneered novel approaches to ecosystem research to understand climate and environmental changes.