Sentences with phrase «evolutionary ecologist»

«We want to know if species will be able to adapt to climate change quickly enough based on how they adapted to climate change in the past,» says evolutionary ecologist John Wiens, of the University of Arizona in Tucson, and lead author of the new study.

I am a theoretical evolutionary ecologist with a particular interest in the eco-evolutionary dynamics of spatially structured populations.

Evolutionary ecologist John Endler of Deakin University in Australia discovered that among great bowerbirds, pigeon - size birds native to northern Australia, females are dazzled by craftsmanship.

Ph.D. student Evan Palmer - Young and advisor evolutionary ecologist Lynn Adler had hoped an earlier finding of reduced parasite load with anabasine consumption was evidence that bees may use «nature's medicine cabinet» to rid themselves of it.

Like thousands of organisms that live off imperiled plants and animals, the sucking louse is missing from many endangered species lists — and that, says evolutionary ecologist Rob Colwell of the University of Connecticut at Storrs, is an unfortunate oversight.

Along with a home - inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we dig into the work of evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns our brain - centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined.

According to new research published in Science by University of British Columbia evolutionary ecologist Rob Colautti, rapid evolution has helped purple loosestrife to invade, and thrive in, northern Ontario.

At the center, microbiologists collaborate with architects and evolutionary ecologists on research that may ultimately influence how buildings are designed and constructed in the coming decades.

«Toads are tough,» says evolutionary ecologist Rick Shine of the University of Sydney, who has studied cane toads.

It's usually a mosaic of plant and fungal tissues,» says evolutionary ecologist Allen Herre.

To see how the new habitats affected these populations, evolutionary ecologist Alexander Badyaev of Auburn University in Alabama and colleague Geoffrey Hill tagged thousands of birds at each site and followed their offspring from hatching through adulthood.

Or so scientists thought, until evolutionary ecologists Adam Shohet and Penelope Watt of the University of Sheffield, U.K., decided to poke their noses into the male fishes» body odor.

«What makes this result so interesting,» says evolutionary ecologist Eric Charnov of the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, «is that the rule generalizes over several orders of magnitude of size.»

Evolutionary ecologist Jacques van Alphen of Leiden University in the Netherlands is amazed at the speed with which C. afra has split in two.

The team used simple, clever experiments to complete the difficult task of linking current processes to evolutionary change, agrees Noah Whiteman, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson: «It's what evolutionary ecologists try to do but rarely accomplish.»

Data on sexual conflicts from plants are much rarer, says evolutionary ecologist Locke Rowe of the University of Toronto.

Or, as evolutionary ecologist Stevan Arnold puts it, the world is green, but that doesn't mean it's edible.

«The extent of the decline took us by surprise,» says evolutionary ecologist Silke Nebel of the University of Western Ontario in London, the lead author of the report.

And Dan Nussey, a vertebrate evolutionary ecologist at the University of Cambridge, U.K., thinks the work makes an important contribution to understanding aging: «There are few comparative analyses of aging rates taking an ecological perspective in the way that Carranza's work does.»

Evolutionary ecologist Nickolas Waser of the University of Arizona, Tucson, says that's a logical explanation, and he praises the work as one of a small handful of studies that measure reproductive returns on a plant's investment in pollen.

Evolutionary ecologist Michal Polak of the University of Cincinnati in Ohio and entomologist Arash Rashed now of the University of California, Berkeley, modified a laser commonly used to cut very small things, like the nerve cells of nematodes, so that it could zap off the hooks on fruit fly penises.

«That's an important result,» says evolutionary ecologist James Collins of Arizona State University in Tempe.

evolutionary ecologist Someone who studies the adaptive processes that have led to the diversity of ecosystems on Earth.

University of Montpellier evolutionary ecologist Pierre - Olivier Cheptou and his student collect seeds from weeds growing around sidewalk trees in Montpellier, France.

Evolutionary ecologist Dr Ally Phillimore, of the university's school of biological sciences, said: «We know that birds use spring temperatures to adjust the timing of egg - laying, and the big question is whether this flexibility will allow birds to lay at the right time under future warmer conditions.»

With the help of fellow researcher Dustin Rubenstein, a behavioral and evolutionary ecologist at Columbia University, Botero collected data for more than 200 bird species that included gulls, geese, ducks, sparrows, bluebirds and falcons.

Doctoral candidate Evan Palmer - Young and his advisor, evolutionary ecologist Lynn Adler, had reported in 2015 that a common parasitic infection of bumble bees was reduced when the bees fed on anabasine in sugar water.

Evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano studies the cognitive abilities of a variety of plants, including the humble pea in her lab at the University of Western Australia.

Within decades, advances in sequencing genes from ancient tissue could allow scientists to clone extinct dodo birds, saber - toothed cats, and woolly mammoths, says Jeffrey Yule, an evolutionary ecologist at Louisiana Tech University.

Sitting around the table are evolutionary ecologists, energy physicists, and architects.

Fabrice Helfenstein, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Bern, Switzerland, tested this by upping the parental workload of wild male great tits, Parus major — which have yellow breast plumage — by adding two extra chicks to their nests.

In 2012, evolutionary ecologists at GEOMAR showed for the first time that Emiliania huxleyi is able to adapt to ocean acidification by means of evolution.

Yet, fruit flies rarely interact with the fungus in the wild — pests like the corn earworm caterpillar are much bigger threats — so it's unclear how applicable these results are to the real world, says Marko Rohlfs, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Bremen in Germany who was not involved in the study.

Last September John Endler, an evolutionary ecologist at Deakin University in Australia, reported that bowerbirds seem to use their trinkets to create a carefully plotted optical illusion.

«There's dogma in the literature — which is more oriented toward the cell biology of aging — that wild animals don't actually senesce,» says Daniel Nussey, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Edinburgh who studies aging in Soay sheep on a remote Scottish island.

«Mating with multiple partners improves the chances that at least one chick will have the genes to cope with the variable conditions to come,» explained Carlos Botero, an evolutionary ecologist and the lead researcher of the study, published yesterday in the journal PLoS ONE.

But the origin of Lepidodactylus lugubris, an asexual gecko found on many central Pacific islands, had remained a genealogical whodunit until Ray Radtkey, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of California at San Diego, and his colleagues turned their attention to the problem.

The finding «seems intriguing,» says Doug Gill, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Maryland, College Park, who has worked on host - parasite interactions.

And Michael Logan, an evolutionary ecologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City, calls the work «the most comprehensive demonstration of natural selection to date» on how body temperature is regulated.

«The point of the paper is really well taken,» says Dan Warren, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of California at Davis who is an expert in ecological niche models.

«Studying small populations is a special challenge, especially in cases such as amphibians where species are declining globally, at times to extinction,» said James P. Collins, an evolutionary ecologist and Virginia M. Ullman Professor of Natural History and the Environment in ASU's School of Life Sciences.

«It's cool that it happens in similar ways for two very different and unrelated arthropod groups,» says Trine Bilde, an evolutionary ecologist at Aarhus University in Denmark.

This evolutionary ecologist, from the State University of New York at Old Westbury, and her colleagues measured tongue lengths of two species of bumblebees, Bombus balteatus and B. sylvicola, collected between 1966 and 1980 and again between 2012 and 2014.

To test the moa hypothesis, Kevin C. Burns, an evolutionary ecologist at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, and colleagues compared lancewood leaves with those from the similar tree Pseudopanax chathamicus.

Monica Gagliano, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Western Australia, thought her experiment on associative learning in plants wasn't working.

«Spiders don't really have a brain, just a decentralized nervous system with three clusters of neurons,» says Jonathan Pruitt, an evolutionary ecologist who studies spider behavior at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In 1975 his mentor atthe University of Michigan, evolutionary ecologist and herpetologistDonald Tinkle, offered him a job on the E. S. George Reserve.

«It's the biggest, most obvious pattern in nature,» says Len Gillman, an evolutionary ecologist at Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand.

Jukka Jokela, an evolutionary ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, says the results are an important «brick in the wall of evidence».