Sentences with phrase «feeding ecology»

* Monitor polar bear populations and trends * Study polar bear feeding ecology * Work cooperatively with the Alaska Nanuuq Commission and the North Slope Borough for co-management of polar bears in Alaska * Provide technical assistance to the participants of the 1988 North Slope Borough Inuvialuit (In new vee al u it) Game Council Agreement for the conservation of polar bears in the southern Beaufort Sea region and monitor the effects of oil and gas operations in the Beaufort Sea region.

A review of gray whale feeding ecology.

In this study, we investigate the pre-whaling genetic diversity, population dynamics and feeding ecology of the eastern Pacific gray whale using ancient and modern DNA sequences and stable isotope data.

Feeding ecology and population dynamics of the feral cat (Felis catus) in relation to the availability of prey in central - eastern New South Wales.

chreier, A.L. (2010) Feeding ecology, food availability, and ranging patterns of wild hamadryas baboons at Filoha.

To determine the feeding relation between Typton and its host Tedania, as a partial aspect of their overall symbiotic relationship, we focused on morphological adaptations and phenotypic characters of fire - sponge shrimps that may be related to their feeding ecology, and examined their stomach contents.

Eronen, J. T. et al. (2017), Feeding ecology and morphology make a bamboo specialist vulnerable to climate change, Current Biology, http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822 (17) 31248 - 4

Furthermore, we must understand how changes in sea ice cover affect the feeding ecology of humpback whales and their competitors in the short - term and the dynamics of krill populations over the longer term, particularly given the increasing pressure from commercial krill harvests [36].

How does the enormous diversity of zooplankton species, life cycles, size, feeding ecology, and physiology affect their role in ocean food webs and cycling of carbon?

However, scientists still know little about the natural history of this species, including its reproductive biology and feeding ecology.

The Apex Predators Program, located at the NEFSC's Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island, collects basic demographic information about sharks and their life histories by conducting research on their distribution and migration patterns, age and growth, reproductive biology, and feeding ecology.

Not exact matches

Land developers burn forests in Latin America to feed the cattle that fill the cavernous appetites of fast food chains in the United States — and the entire planet gradually warms, leaving even the experts in doubt about the future of our global ecology.

At that point, the science I had the most view of was ecology: what birds eat, where they migrate, how they feed their young.

As a class project, Despommier challenged his medical ecology students to feed 50,000 people using thirteen acres of rooftop gardens.

The variables important to feeding decisions would have differed greatly from place to place and over time, and thus greatly differing «optimal diets» would have been predicted, as suggested by modern evolutionary ecology.

Research interests: Primate distribution & biomass, Frugivory, Feeding Behavior, Old World monkeys, Seasonally dry forest ecology, infectious disease surveillance

Structure and function of benthic communities, deposit feeding, mysid ecology, bio-acoustics of the seafloor and near the seafloor, biological - physical interactions, effects of turbulence

Moreover, the guppies extend their gestation during the exact period when their offspring are maturing their feeding capabilities most quickly, said lead author Terry Dial, a postdoctoral researcher in ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University.

When eaten, they will feed the good bacteria in your gut and balance your inner ecology.

Food chain, food chains, food web, food webs, garden food chains, ocean food chains, energy, producer, consumer, secondary, primary, predator, prey, carnivore, growth, repair, movement, reproduction, feeding relationships, ecology.

Marine farming offers a partial solution but comes with its own barrel of worms: Farmed fish tend to be more prone to diseases which spread to wild stocks; virtually all farmed fish are carnivores and therefore need to be fed on other fish; and farming of some animals, such as shrimp, can lead to massive changes in nitrogen levels, damaging the surrounding ecology.

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).

«Variation in the response of an Arctic top predator experiencing habitat loss: feeding and reproductive ecology of two polar bear populations.»