Sentences with phrase «for ecologists»

Jobs for ecologists are a plenty and of a huge variety.

In those days we geneticists had nothing but contempt for ecologists — we thought they just went out to listen to birds.

The combination of deployment of the MODIS satellites starting in 1998 and a widespread drought in the Amazon during July - September 2005 would appear to have provided the first opportunity for ecologists to observe an alternative cause of increased photosynthesis besides increased transpiration.

Of course, I am embarrassed at the arrogance today (especially because we had nothing but contempt for ecologists who we regarded as «stamp collectors») but it indicates the joy of doing science simply to learn about how nature works.

A guide for ecologists: Detecting the role of disease in faunal declines and managing population recovery

John Woinarksi: Northern Australia for ecologists offered a sort of time travel experience, we could see Australia as it must have been 200 years ago.

«Northern Australia, for ecologists, offered a time travel experience, we could see Australia as it must have been 200 years ago,» he says.

The major challenge now for ecologists is isolating the appropriate signals in other ecosystem.

To predict the effects of these extreme events, scientists need to better understand how forests work normally — and for ecologists like Stephenson, that means figuring out why trees die.

And for all the focus on functional diversity, it is probably just one step towards finding a truly comprehensive view of biodiversity — the ultimate goal for ecologists and conservationists.

It's an idea that's increasingly in vogue for ecologists.

In a way, he adds, the epidemic is a once - in - a-lifetime opportunity for ecologists to study these predator - prey relationships.

Until recently, it was not common practice for ecologists to explicitly point out that only a small subset of introduced species cause problems.

The big question which remains for ecologists is whether birds in cities are evolving to suit their new urban environment.

Following the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill, she says, it took about two years for the first scientific papers to emerge and more than a decade for ecologists to synthesize that new knowledge into a comprehensive understanding of the environmental impact.

And yet, the simple fact that the «akiapola`au's song can still be heard suggests that much can be gained by intervening, no matter how uncomfortable that might be for ecologists accustomed to observing the world dispassionately.

For some ecologists, chili peppers have posed a burning question: Why are they hot?

This has been a frightening figure for ecologists.

(Ehrlich & Ehrlich 1990, p. 36) As the Ehrlichs point out, this is a frightening figure for ecologists, yet they are even more concerned about the rising fraction of potential plant production that is being lost for all life, including ourselves.

Despite her impressive field experience, Davidar remained unsure about the job prospects for an ecologist in India, so in 1984 she enrolled in a master's degree program at the Harvard School of Public Health.

For an ecologist, working in one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth is always thrilling, and Bruna hopes his research will contribute to the area's conservation.

Before Stephanie Roth won the Goldman Prize in 2005 for protecting an ancient Romanian village from being destroyed by a massive silver and gold mining project; she worked as a researcher and editor for The Ecologist magazine.

For ecologist Greg Asner, where it happened was about...

Not exact matches

One beauty ecologist sold $ 15,000 worth of items in a month, more than any single retail store previously did for Pangea.

Ecologist David Schindler, who energetically led the ELA for more than two decades, convinced the group to fund ELA to study the issue.

The ecologists call us to the struggle for survival.

The ecologists are right to discourage any intervention for this purpose.

If ecologists decide that a particular exotic species is disrupting an ecosystem, they may call for its destruction.

Can they develop theologies of ecology that affirm the intrinsic value of all life, as do the deep ecologists and most others within environmental philosophy, and that also affirm the care of a compassionate God for the poor and oppressed, as do prophetic biblical traditions?

They note that while some ecologists are focusing attention on the maintenance of wilderness, we have in fact turned our farms into factories, where meat is produced with no regard whatever for the suffering of the animals involved.

Even some of the most secularized ecologists are calling for a rediscovery of the «sacredness» of nature.

These «monistic ecologists of the spirit» are bad observers; they claim that «now is the acceptable time for a great leap forward in paradigms, despite one's gloomy sense that the era belongs to Reagan, Bush, and similar anchors of the Old Age.»

It also provides a basis for the value of the wild plants and animals expressed by many contemporary ecologists.

Agriculturists in the United States had been so fully drawn into industrial patterns of thought that they continued to assume that their task was to deal with the need for increasing food production for the growing population to which the ecologists pointed with alarm.

Nothing in either volume on deep ecology suggests that this is an appropriate reflection for deep ecologists.

But it has been Shepard's formulation and the conclusions he drew from it that have been of greatest importance both for deep ecologists and for me.

The lack of attention by deep ecologists to the relations of human beings to individual nonhuman subjects is connected with their distaste for ethics as usually understood.

Whereas Whiteheadians can rightly be faulted for failing to probe the sensibility that leads to acceptance of false philosophies and the historical and psychological origins of this sensibility, deep ecologists can be faulted for failing to provide practical proposals for slowing and finally stopping the human destruction of life - support systems without causing even worse evils.

Ecologists have been saying this for years.

The ecologists believe that continuing on our present course is a sure recipe for disaster.

It is to ask that economists learn ecology and that ecologists learn economics; that science meets religion and both learn from each other; that our innermost human problems are seen, not simply as some personal aberration, but as intimately linked with the sort of society we create for ourselves.

Deep ecologists want to counter Western culture's anthropocentrism — its tendency to place humanity at the center of the universe and to reduce the nonhuman world to an instrument for human ends — with a theory of an expanded self which calls for identification with the nonhuman world.

For many ecofeminists and deep ecologists, such a critique of Christianity is a prelude to its rejection; it is a signal to create new religious systems, opt for non-Western ones, or return to the beliefs and practices of an era preceding the fall of Western civilization into a world - and woman - denying dualiFor many ecofeminists and deep ecologists, such a critique of Christianity is a prelude to its rejection; it is a signal to create new religious systems, opt for non-Western ones, or return to the beliefs and practices of an era preceding the fall of Western civilization into a world - and woman - denying dualifor non-Western ones, or return to the beliefs and practices of an era preceding the fall of Western civilization into a world - and woman - denying dualism.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

Even though resistance takes many different forms (against the MAI, towards a jubilee year in 2000, for the Tobin tax, seeking alternatives, etc.), and even if the struggles are specific in their aims (farmers, workers, indigenous or coloured people, citizens, ecologists or women, the urban poor, etc.) and though the various co-ordination groups are numerous (Peoples Power for the XXI Century in Asia, São Paulo Forum in Latin America, etc.), all of these have a common thread: they all work to highlight the unacceptable nature of the current economic system.

«These practices represent the state of the art for conservation,» says Bryan Finegan, a forest ecologist at CATIE, the international research institute in Costa Rica that led the study.

It will be very interesting for me, as an ecologist, to see how these topics are handled and received by those in the coffee industry.

As both an ecologist and long - time freelance science writer, I know how difficult it can be to interpret and summarize scientific analyses for public use, and the Rainforest Alliance impacts report is a fine effort.

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Prior to becoming the Conservative MP for Richmond Park in 2010, Goldsmith worked in journalism, editing The Ecologist magazine, reflecting his longstanding interest in the environment.