Sentences with phrase «in ecological context»

A combined approach that explores the biological and psychological functioning of individuals and at the same time locates the individual in an ecological context which is at the heart of an indigenous contribution to best practice.

I'm used to using PCA in an ecological context with a multivariate dataset where you might have all sorts of different types of data like various species abundances, and you plot PC1 vs PC2 to look at how different communities fall out.

The options are to write about the artwork's meaning in an ecological context afterwards, or incorporate words into the drawing as the artwork proceeds.

Alternative reproductive tactics contribute less to fitness when considered in ecological context, and evolve only under strong selection

In this study we've uncovered a new use for it in an ecological context.»

The gradual and progressive appearance of order is an apt description of development, most appropriately viewed in an ecological context.

Not exact matches

In the context of considering the NGP's economic burdens and benefits (NGP Report, Volume II, s. 2.4.4), the JRP noted that the concept of «ecological goods and services» was described during the hearing but that, based on the hearing record, the estimated costs for damages to ecosystem goods and services were not well quantified and based on a methodology that is not currently broadly accepted.

An organic model can interpret «the relation between God and world in ways commensurate with an ecological context».

They may frequently engage moral questions in institutional contexts where the theological warrants for a specific ethical issue may not be honored — as when they advise on matters of medical ethics, public policy and ecological practice.

in human life in a given social and ecological context, becomes the locus of the parabolic teaching of Jesus.

It is interesting to note in this context that family therapy broke out of purely intrapsychic relations into wider systems of relationships that characterize and condition us all; and now we see the more recent birth of «ecological» therapy, where the concern broadens to include human relationships to the fullest extent possible (see FFT 256ff.).

In particular, the basic ecological realities of today and tomorrow require us to think in terms of a «world - man image» in the context of a planetary societIn particular, the basic ecological realities of today and tomorrow require us to think in terms of a «world - man image» in the context of a planetary societin terms of a «world - man image» in the context of a planetary societin the context of a planetary society.

Writing in 1982, after a decade in which the church as a whole had pursued the inner mechanisms of congregations, several sociologists reported as follows: «We share the conviction that in recent years congregational analysis has over-emphasized the internal dynamics of congregational life and has failed to sufficiently account for the influence of the social and ecological context of the church's inner life.

Each particular part is defined by and dependent on the total context».42 In this ecological view of a nature which includes human beings, nothing is wholly self - subsistent.

A new mindset is needed, one that locates food production in the wider ecological and social context and involves consideration of how the affluent can reduce their demands for food.

Rachel also provides natural dye education with a particular interest in foraging for dyes with an ecological context through workshops and online tutorials.

According to the study, the ecological context of the birds» habitat in Barcelona — a highly urbanised and industrialised area — can increase exposure to lead.

These results show how similar ecological contexts can result in the repeated evolution of highly adaptive strategies across species and regions.

Then four scenarios were created using the same lizard signal in different plant environments and weather conditions to explore how these different ecological contexts affected signal effectiveness, explained Dr Tom Chandler from Monash University.

Moreover, the scientists showed that calcium signaling can be studied directly in intact plants in different physiological and ecological contexts, which helps to better understand its role as a secondary messenger in plants.

Dr Jolle Jolles, lead author of the study, now based at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology, said: «By filming the schooling fish from above and tracking the groups» movements in detail, we found that the randomly composed shoals showed profound differences in their collective behaviour that persisted across different ecological contexts.

The research illustrates the context - dependent ecological role of sheephead in Southern California kelp forests.

According to Dr. Biju Kumar, one of the study's authors, the discovery of this crab is very important in the context of conservation of the Western Ghats Biodiversity Hotpot as they can serve as ecological indicators, reflecting the health of the ecosystem.

Although an evolutionary innovation can open up new ecological niches, traits which are essentially beneficial can put species at a disadvantage in the context of rapid environmental changes.

In the future, the understanding of this interaction between two brains would allow for the comprehension and analysis of very complex aspects of the fields of psychology, sociology, psychiatry, or education, using the neural images within an ecological or real - world context.

2) the nutrient energy - dependent polycombic ecological adaptations that link ecological variation to the physiology of pheromone - controlled reproduction in the context of autophagy and chromosomal rearrangements linked to all biodiversity via amino acid substitutions in cell types.

Framing ecological adaptations manifested in morphological and behavioral phenotypes of species from microbes to man in the context of evolution should be detered by experimental evidence of ecological speciation that is nutrient - dependent and pheromone - controlled.

In this context, we aim to explore the impact of policy instruments — in particular risk - coping mechanisms, environment - related policies and land use policies — on the social - ecological resilience of smallholderIn this context, we aim to explore the impact of policy instruments — in particular risk - coping mechanisms, environment - related policies and land use policies — on the social - ecological resilience of smallholderin particular risk - coping mechanisms, environment - related policies and land use policies — on the social - ecological resilience of smallholders.

These impairments hold ecological relevance, particularly in contexts in which precise disambiguation of complex socio - emotional cues is critical but insufficient sleep is prevalent; for example, in members of the military, emergency service personnel, medical professionals, and new parents.

No other film, however, has examined the dissolution of the human self as closely or in the same specific ecological context as Annihilation.

The internship along with the training students receive using an «ecological systems framework,» which, Savitz - Romer notes, honors «multiple contexts in which children and adolescents learn and develop» really sets C.A.S. apart.

Diabetes, autism, allergies, many anxiety disorders, autoimmune diseases, and even tooth, jaw, and vision problems are increasingly plaguing bodies that have been removed from the ecological context in which they existed for millennia.

The Repellent Fence is a monumental, site - specific installation that examines the cultural, political, economic and ecological issues of indigenous migration within the context of the Tohono O'odham Nation located in southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico.

I've had a great time learning from, and sometimes debating with, two smart people with very different areas of expertise and vantage points: the blogging meteorologist Eric Holthaus and Jacquelyn Gill, who studies past climates in the context of ecological change.

Main sustainable development activities include organic agriculture and green tourism on the Desna river as well educational activities developed in the context of the «Desnianski Zori» ecological camp for schoolchildren.

And while ecological problems in the context of a vast coherent economy are not new — Rome knew them, IIRC — the scale is unprecedented.

But, you also might be like many of us who have found that ecological - and socially - conscious living can be surprisingly more difficult in rural communities than in urban contexts.

In this context of hyper growth and accelerated urbanism, the Asian Cairns project fights for the construction of an urban multifunctional, multicultural and ecological pole.

In their Perspective in this issue of PLOS Biology, Blomqvist et al. [1] set out to demonstrate that «Ecological Footprint measurements, as currently constructed, are so misleading as to preclude their use in any serious science or policy context.&raquIn their Perspective in this issue of PLOS Biology, Blomqvist et al. [1] set out to demonstrate that «Ecological Footprint measurements, as currently constructed, are so misleading as to preclude their use in any serious science or policy context.&raquin this issue of PLOS Biology, Blomqvist et al. [1] set out to demonstrate that «Ecological Footprint measurements, as currently constructed, are so misleading as to preclude their use in any serious science or policy context.&raquin any serious science or policy context.»

For example, they commented that Schweingruber's collections were largely based on a couple of campaigns in which they flew into sites for a couple of days, cored trees and flew off to the next site, without any ecological context.

«Ecological footprint measurements, as currently constructed and presented, are so misleading as to preclude their use in any serious science or policy context,» he says.

Technologically, a comprehensive and economic series of changes are available to transform the self - destructive industrial present to make economic growth men ecological improvement in the context of a global pursuit of social and ecological justice.

This framework also shows climate change in a greater context — one which unites all of the ecological threats we face today.

But an open access paper published today in PLoS Biology finds the method behind the Ecological Footprint «so misleading as to preclude its use in any serious scientific or policy context.»

Currently, monitoring is taking place in a variety of contexts, and some data - sharing and uniformity of data sharing is emerging with efforts such as the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON).23 But in general different things are being monitored in different ecosystems, and there is little coordination among different groups.

Since then, Latour has argued for embracing old mythologies, including Western religions, in a new ecological context.

An important key to success will be developing the capacity to incorporate climate change information into adaptation in the context of other important technological, social, economic and ecological trends.

Johnstone, J. A., and T. E. Dawson (2010), Climatic context and ecological implications of summer fog decline in the coast redwood region, Proc.

In this context, UNEP - Environment's functional definition of a green economy, without reference to growth, is an economy that translates into «improved human well - being and social equity, environmental risks and ecological shortages.

In the context of ecological sustainability, after all, passive construction is the opposite of apathetic — it's an aggressive, conscientious effort to battle the planet's energy problems from the ground up.