Sentences with phrase «food web dynamics»

Natural climate variation and anthropogenic stressors alter biochemical cycling, food web dynamics, and the fitness of species [1]--[3].

The impacts of anthropogenic climate change so far include decreased ocean productivity, altered food web dynamics, reduced abundance of habitat - forming species, shifting species distributions, and a greater incidence of disease.

And with species interactions and food web dynamics in flux, Koltz anticipates more ecosystem - level changes are in store.

The impacts of anthropogenic climate change include decreased ocean productivity, altered food web dynamics, reduced abundance of habitat - forming species, shifting species distributions, and a greater incidence of disease.

Browsing the cognitive science journals online, I found a study suggesting that people regularly misapprehend the nature and effects of perturbation: Peter A. White, «Naive analysis of food web dynamics: a study of causal judgement about complex physical systems,» in Cognitive Science; abstract at:

Dr. Vega Thurber's lab currently researches several aspects of marine microbial ecology, including the effects of viruses and bacteria on tropical reef health, marine microbial food web dynamics, and the cascading effects of abiotic stressors on microbial symbioses.

Biological - physical interaction; Numerical modeling; Lower - trophic level food web dynamics; Phytoplankton bloom dynamics and phenology; Zooplankton population dynamics; Mariculture and environmental capacity.

NEON collects and produces data on precipitation patterns, soil and groundwater dynamics, interactions with vegetation, and processes such as nutrient cycling and food web dynamics in aquatic ecosystems to support the comprehensive study of water cycles throughout diverse ecosystems.

Nifong conducted the alligator diet research as part of larger research of freshwater river systems and food web dynamics.

Not exact matches

For example, the preservation of the human beings and the biosphere (Objectives C and D) depends upon a mutual web of causal interconnections between different species on earth — e.g., the nature of the food chain, material resources, energy fluxes, ecosystem dynamics, etc..

This study gets us closer to understanding the complex food webs that are vital in nutrient dynamics and overall soil fertility,» said study first author Tami Swenson, a scientific engineering associate in Northen's group within the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area's Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division.

In their food - web modeling, Sahasrabudhe and Motter have used accepted ecological models of predator - prey relationships, but a more elaborate representation of an ecosystem would also include parasitism, seed dispersal, competition, mutualisms (in which species make life easier for each other), nutrient dynamics and more.

Topics of discussion regarding science for integrated management of coastal and shelf processes included natural variability of the coastal zone in space and time, experimental management, potential roles of different species, assemblages and habitats in coastal systems, effects of changing nutrient regimes, and perturbations of food - web dynamics.

«These changes in life history traits and population dynamics likely reduced and / or removed populations of many species, including important components of the food web,» in turn shrinking the food chain, scientists wrote in the new report.

Thus, it is «more likely than not» that the dynamics that are now reducing Arctic sea ice are also increasing the food supply, not just for bearded seals but for the whole food web.

However, despite many efforts to unravel the linkage and feedback controls between the carbon and nitrogen cycles, and the effect of their variability on primary production and food - web dynamics, they are still not well understood.

A worst - case oil spill threatens to disrupt the dynamics of the food - web in Burrard Inlet and could lead to large - scale environmental catastrophe.