Sentences with phrase «first ecological study»

The first ecological study of an entire glacier has found that microbes drastically reduce surface reflectivity and have a non-negligible impact on the amount of sunlight that is reflected into space.

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His study of 138 countries is the first ever to take a global approach to the connections between growth, prosperity and ecological sustainability.

«Our study is the first to demonstrate that for such invasions, complete extirpation is not necessary to minimize negative ecological changes within priority habitats.»

«This is the first time anybody has described the ecological succession in the Mesozoic equivalent of a whale fall in detail,» says Richard Twitchett of the Natural History Museum in London, who led the study.

Environmental scientists and synthetic biologists have for the first time developed a set of key research areas to study the potential ecological impacts of synthetic biology, a field that could push beyond incremental changes to create organisms that transcend common evolutionary pathways.

«We are the first to examine all important ecological processes of forest regeneration in a global meta - analysis of existing case studies,» explains Dr. Eike Lena Neuschulz, the lead author of the study from the Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Center.

This is the first study of the life history of limpets living in the Okinawa Trough, including their reproduction and spread, and Dr. Nakamura's work provides insights into their ecological mechanisms.

But this is the first time, to my knowledge, that the direct link is established from a novel gene to a novel structure to the invasion of a completely new ecological opportunity,» said Abderrahman Khila, an evolutionary and developmental genomicist at the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon, who led the study on the delicate insects called water striders.

The study — the first to experimentally investigate the role of flower shape and size in sexually deceptive orchids — is published in the British Ecological Society's journal Functional Ecology.

In the new study, Kharrazi and researchers at IIASA applied an approach first developed to study ecological networks in order to better understand the dynamics and properties of the global commodity trade system.

So reports a new study released today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, which is one of the first to explore the ecological consequences of stimulant pollution in urban streams.

Now, a first - of - its - kind field study by Elbroch and Davis colleague Heiko Wittmer has shed new light on the puma's ecological role.

The study is the first effort to specifically document Marsh Arab women's cultural relationship to marsh ecological services.

A new study by JCU PhD student Anna Pintor, published in the journal Ecological Monographs, is one of the first to test the Climatic Variability Hypothesis (CVH)-- which proposes that animals living in environmentally variable areas should be able to tolerate more environmental fluctuations as a result.

The study is the first time that metabolites and proteins were measured simultaneously to study ecological competition.

As we head into the 5th year of our long - term ecological study, six snow leopards are currently wearing GPS tracking collars, including Aztai, the first cat we had ever collared.

Despite the lack of an El Niño effect, 2017 is set to be the second or third hottest year on record; hurricanes unprecedented in their power pummelled the U.S. and Caribbean; the largest wildfires California has seen burned deep into the Northern Hemisphere winter; scientists warned the «Arctic shows no sign of returning to the reliably frozen region of recent past decades»; studies revealed an ecological armageddon amongst insect populations; droughts fuelled famine and insecurity across East Africa and the Middle East; the U.N. warned the number of chronically undernourished people has risen for the first time since the turn of the century due in large part to climate impacts.