Sentences with phrase «in ecological data»
«Innovations in sensor technologies have opened the floodgates in terms of data about the natural world, and there is a lot of room for creativity right now in ecological data analysis.»
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The Technical Report, which provides a comprehensive assessment of ecological outcomes to environmental flows in the Edward - Wakool Selected Area in 2014 - 15, including details on data analysis techniques and statistical outputs, is expected to be published by late February 2016.
This is quite hard to tell the pattern of vote switching from one party to another from the aggregate ward - level data alone because of the well known ecological inference problem, but some insights can be gleaned from the pattern of correlations in the changes in party shares.
Decades of data collected as part of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research program have turned up some puzzles, such as surprising chemical gradients in lake waters that didn't quite make sense.
«By compiling the largest dataset of archaeological fish bones in the Pacific Northwest Coast, we demonstrate the value of using such data to establish an ecological baseline for modern fisheries,» says Iain McKechnie.
Using over a decade's worth of data from the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project, supported by the National Science Foundation, the investigators examined the effects of kelp on groups of organisms in the kelp forest ecosystem.
The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.
Project BudBurst launched in 2007 as a national field campaign designed to engage the public in the observation and collection of important ecological data based on the timing of leafing, flowering and fruiting of plants (aka plant phenophases).
More specifically, she focuses on the development and use of multidisciplinary approaches, combining data from different sources, to identify the determinants of disease transmission in different ecological settings, providing evidence for the improvement of current control policies, as well as the development of new ones.
As the Canadian government scientists note in the Fisheries Oceanography paper: «The 2010 phenomenal run... may forever remain an enigma due to the lack of precise ecological and chemical data.»
And they examined data from sources like the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look at various socio - ecological factors that have been posited as contributors to individualism, including prevalence of infectious disease and disasters, rates of urbanization, changes in secularism, and trends in occupational status.
The National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON), a unique string of 80 - some data - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive specdata - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive specData by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive species.
To find out whether the population has indeed grown, ecological modeler Craig Pease of Vermont Law School and David Mattson, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) grizzly field biologist, looked at 20 years of data on grizzlies tracked with radio collars or spotted by federal scientists in Yellowstone.
«Right now, we lack the data needed to assess the ecological impacts of most of the synthetic chemicals in use today.
In addition to expanding the ecological and species distribution data, they want to better understand the factors that limit gene flow and the giraffes» differentiation into four species and several subspecies.
But big data from genetic fingerprinting of animal DNA in a landscape combined with fine - resolution satellite data and sophisticated ecological models can.
The latest technique for making these predictions is so - called ecological niche modelling, in which researchers log the locations of known species sightings, then gather environmental data for those places to define the ecological limits of the species» range.
It also allows for the incorporation of data from different disciplines, factoring in socioeconomic, ecological and environmental factors, for example.
A new in - depth analysis of global bycatch data provides fisheries and the conservation community with the best information yet to help mitigate the ecological damage of bycatch and helps identify where mitigation measures are most needed.
«Our data confirm that the species was likely Plasmodium falciparum, and that it affected people in different ecological and cultural environments.
To conduct the study, Clark and Berdanier analyzed data dating back to 1993 on the annual growth rates of 28,879 individual trees from 35 species growing at the Duke University Forest in North Carolina's Piedmont, and at the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research site in the state's western mountains.
These ecological problems are a new frontier for supercomputing, says John Cobb, a principal investigator for TeraGrid at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and a co-investigator for DataONE, a project sponsored by the National Science Foundation to gather and harmonize ecological and environmental data sets.
Recent ecological, genetic and archaeological data support the notion of human habitation in Beringia during the latest ice age.
This paleo climatic data and the distribution of archaeological sites associated with the HP, as well of that of the Still Bay tradition, which existed in the same environments about 5,000 years before (76,000 to 71,000 years ago), enabled the researchers to model the emergence of these traditions with two predictive algorithms that permitted them to reconstruct the ecological niche associated with each tradition and determine whether these niches differed significantly through time.
«The data was collected as part of a programme supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 150 grasslands across Germany, the so called «Biodiversity Exploratories»,» says Professor Wolfgang Weisser of the Chair for Terrestrial Ecology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)-- «it constitutes the most extensive ecological sampling in Europe.»
In 2004, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority used extensive economic and ecological data to create a system of «no - take» protected areas that conserved at least 20 % of every habitat while covering only 33 % of the region.
This frontier research needs to be furthered by conducting surveys and excavations in various environmental zones of Arabia in order to recover ecological data and information on hominin population history and changing adaptive behaviours.
Amelia's broader research focuses on connecting ecological and spatial data to assess responses of coastal and marine systems to threats, in order to determine ecological ramifications of ecosystem degradation.
Come learn how drones are being used to detect environmental hazards such as gas leaks and airborne disease microbes, how planes equipped with sensors can tell us about ecological change and how DIY sensors placed in homes by journalists generate data and stories about the impact of heat waves.
As I stated in the panel, this is extremely weak evidence for an effect of carbs; there are many confounding factors and population - level data can not sort these out (the «ecological fallacy»).
Whereas five types of surface (cultivated areas, pastures, forests, fisheries and built environment), planet Earth has approximately 13.4 billion global hectares (gha) of biologically productive land and water according to 2010 data from the Global Footprint Network and humanity's ecological footprint reached the milestone of 2.7 global hectares (gha) per person in 2007 for a world population of 6.7 billion people on the same date (according to the UN)[See Article A terra no limite (Earth in the limit) by José Eustáquio Diniz Alves available on the website < http://planetasustentavel.abril.com.br/noticia/ambiente/terra-limite-humanidade-recursos-naturais-planeta-situacao-sustentavel-637804.shtml >].
Each module represents an ecological scenario involving complex causality, providing a richly textured, situated environment where, through modeling and instructional support, students can explore, observe, and collect data in rich, immersive, simulated virtual ecosystems.
She is particularly interested in the ways in which children use the varied data representations and their daily experiences to reason about complex ecological relationships.
helps young children explore, experience, and collect data to understand how trees grow, the roles trees play in ecological systems, and how humans and trees interact.
Some screens compile this information via a questionnaire with numerical scoring (such as the Fish Invasiveness Screening Kit), while others assemble the data qualitatively (e.g. Ecological Risk Screening Summary, which has been used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to assess many species, including the 43 in the aforementioned petition).
Built in June by Dr. Henry Loescher, the tower, located high on a ridge overlooking the Trans - Alaska Pipeline and Dalton Highway, is collecting data on prevailing wind directions and annual temperature variations that are crucial for the design and construction of a National Ecological Observatory Network research site.
For 24 - months they agreed to draw - up and examine ecological data required to plan offshore renewable energy sites in the 6,740 square mile region.
Prior to working with NIDIS, Kat worked at the National Ecological Observatory Network developing web and print communication resources and improving the usability of online interactive data visualization tools in conjunction with staff from the National Geographic Society's FieldScope Program.
Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish the National Climate Change Wildlife Science Center within USGS to: (1) assess current physical and biological knowledge and prioritize scientific gaps in such knowledge to forecast the ecological impacts of climate change on fish and wildlife at the ecosystem, habitat, community, population, and species levels; (2) develop and improve tools to identify, evaluate, and link scientific approaches and models for forecasting impacts of climate change; (3) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor climate change impacts; and (4) develop capacities for sharing such data.
Repeated collections of such data allow measurements and understanding of changes in forest biomass, biodiversity and other ecological parameters caused by natural and anthropogenic change processes - these insights will be essential to assist local and regional planners charged with keeping track of carbon for global climate change initiatives.
About in 2000 I started to analyze my long - term ecological data sets (50 years long data sets, among the longest from the North).
Updated every year, the National Footprint Accounts are now available in their entirety for anyone to download on our new Ecological Footprint Explorer open data platform.
According to the most recent data from the Global Footprint Network, humanity as a whole is currently in ecological overshoot, demanding one and a half planets» worth of Earth's biocapacity.
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.
Ecological niche modelling of king penguins in the Southern Ocean, validated with population genomics and palaeodemography data, is used to reconstruct past range shifts and identify future vulnerable areas and potential refugia under climate change.
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.
Please click your country on our Interactive Country Map or visit our Ecological Footprint Explorer open data platform for more information on the average Ecological Footprint in your country.
Global Footprint Network An organization raising awareness of Earth's current level of ecological overshoot by using ecological footprint data in planning in all public and private enterprise.
These next - generation models that do incorporate more complex ecological mechanism do however require more sophisticated data in order to further improve their predictions.
She is an adjunct scientist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Milbrook, NY and a member of the Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) which seeks to utilize high frequency sensor data to better understand and manage lake ecosystems.