Sentences with phrase «ecosystem scale»

During his doctoral research, he investigated how microorganisms, in particular their genes, interact with the environment and with each other to drive elemental fluxes at ecosystem scales.

«With such improved satellite data we can for the first time combine global SIF observations with in - situ ecosystem scale data of gross carbon uptake.

At ecosystem scales, however, things are more complicated, especially in the tropics, where thousands of species interact and other factors — such as nutrients and rainfall — can also affect plant growth.

«But what we see in the Amazon case, it's not really helping the ecosystem scale — it's holding them back.»

Her lab focuses on the conservation and ecology of amphibians and reptiles at population, community, and ecosystem scales — especially as they are affected by emerging infectious disease and global change.

At the close of the Fourth International Polar Year, we take stock of the ecological consequences of recent climate change in the Arctic, focusing on effects at population, community, and ecosystem scales.

More work is needed to extend the new approach to other plant species, and to broaden the effort to include models that look at dynamics at the ecosystem scale, the researchers said.

It can also encourage more efficient use of fish and other resources that are prone to shift over space and time, reducing the necessity during the design phase of trying to match the ecosystem scale with the policy scale — nearly impossible given the myriad socioeconomic and ecological considerations.

Although fungicides are being investigated as a tree protectant, it would only be feasible to treat infected trees at an individual level, not at a landscape or ecosystem scale.

Important areas are interannual variability in terrestrial fluxes and the interplay of warming, management, and CO2 enrichment responses at the ecosystem scale.

Furthermore, by working in controlled areas of a natural reef community, Caldeira, Albright, and their team were able to demonstrate how acidification affects coral reefs on the ecosystem scale, not just in terms of individual organisms or species, as other studies have done.

Nonlinear feedbacks, thresholds, and bi-stable hysteresis13 operate at the ecosystem scale.

Soils are providing an environmental service of sequestering this potent greenhouse gas, but the trunks are releasing methane equivalent to 4 percent of what could be captured by CWD and soils at the ecosystem scale,» said Rodrigo Vargas, assistant professor in the Department of Plant and Soil Sciences at UD's College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and lead investigator of the study, in a press release.