Sentences with phrase «including species interactions»

The majority of studies extrapolate correlations between current climate and species distributions to novel conditions and omit important biological mechanisms, including species interactions, evolution, landscape dispersal barriers, habitat degradation, and intraspecific trait variation.

«This analysis combines the results of all these experiments to study the combined effects of multiple stressors on whole communities, including species interactions and different measures of responses to climate change.»

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P. clarkii is an active predator of numerous aquatic organisms, including amphibian larvae,» the Spanish researcher Germán Orizaola from the University of Uppsala (Sweden) said, having published a study in the journal Ecology on the interaction between the two species.

The results, revealing new examples of heritable bacterial species — including those related to diet preference, metabolism, and immune defense — appear May 11 in Cell Host & Microbe's special issue on the «Genetics and Epigenetics of Host - Microbe Interactions.»

The Messel includes outstanding evidence of feeding interactions, including stomach contents and bite marks in soft tissues that can be traced back to particular species» mouth parts, Dunne says.

The selected proposals include research on genetic switches to study microbial ecosystems, tools for deciphering multi-kingdom communication molecules, and a novel approach to map interactions between bacteria species.

We study the diversity of life histories and evolutionary adaptations and their limits (including diseases) of free - ranging and captive wildlife species, and their interactions with people and their environment in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

We invite original innovative research on the rational engineering of plant systems at all levels, including proteins, protein complexes, sensors, metabolic and signalling pathways, microcompartments such as carboxysomes, subcellular compartments, cell types or tissues, as well as the engineering of novel plant hybrid species and the interactions of plants with viruses, bacteria, and other organisms.

We study the diversity of life histories and evolutionary adaptations and their limits, including diseases, of free - ranging and captive wildlife species, and their interactions with people and their environment in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

Required capabilities include kinetic turbulence simulations, related three - dimensional fluid simulations with gyro - Landau kinetic extensions, large - scale molecular dynamics simulations of materials, and couplings of lower - dimensional models (for fast analyses) to simulate interactions between zones and particle species.

The Yoder Lab studies how coevolution between interacting species helps to create and maintain biodiversity, and how intimate species interactions can help or hinder adaptation to other factors, including changing climate.

It contains 70 tracks from at least eight different species, including rarely - seen interactions between both dinosaurs and mammals.

The answer is because it helps us understand the interactions between all species, including people.

The ASPCA believes that responsible care includes appropriate amounts of nutritious, species - appropriate food and clean water to support good health; basic veterinary care including vaccinations and parasite control; necessary grooming and training; exercise; social interaction; diligence in identifying and eliminating hazardous substances and situations [See Use of Taste - aversive Additives to Antifreeze, and on Dog Chews / Treats]; using good judgment when exposing pets to potentially stressful situations; prompt treatment for illness or injury; and, in the case of dogs, cats, ferrets and rabbits, sterilization before puberty.

The lower Chesapeake Bay is especially at risk due to high rates of sinking land (known as subsidence).96 Climate change and sea level rise are also likely to cause a number of ecological impacts, including declining water quality and clarity, increases in harmful algae and low oxygen (hypoxia) events, decreases in a number of species including eelgrass and seagrass beds, and changing interactions among trophic levels (positions in the food chain) leading to an increase in subtropical fish and shellfish species in the bay.66

In addition, ocean acidification is co-occurring with other drivers of environmental change (including warming, eutrophication, hypoxia, eutrophication, pollution [12]-RRB-, yet the interactive effects and relative importance of multiple stressors on species physiology, life history and ecology, as well as species — environment interactions and ecosystem function remain poorly understood [13 — 17].

Topics that I work on or plan to work in the future include studies of: + missing aerosol species and sources, such as the primary oceanic aerosols and their importance on the remote marine atmosphere, the in - cloud and aerosol water aqueous formation of organic aerosols that can lead to brown carbon formation, the primary terrestrial biological particles, and the organic nitrogen + missing aerosol parameterizations, such as the effect of aerosol mixing on cloud condensation nuclei and aerosol absorption, the semi-volatility of primary organic aerosols, the importance of in - canopy processes on natural terrestrial aerosol and aerosol precursor sources, and the mineral dust iron solubility and bioavailability + the change of aerosol burden and its spatiotemporal distribution, especially with regard to its role and importance on gas - phase chemistry via photolysis rates changes and heterogeneous reactions in the atmosphere, as well as their effect on key gas - phase species like ozone + the physical and optical properties of aerosols, which affect aerosol transport, lifetime, and light scattering and absorption, with the latter being very sensitive to the vertical distribution of absorbing aerosols + aerosol - cloud interactions, which include cloud activation, the aerosol indirect effect and the impact of clouds on aerosol removal + changes on climate and feedbacks related with all these topics In order to understand the climate system as a whole, improve the aerosol representation in the GISS ModelE2 and contribute to future IPCC climate change assessments and CMIP activities, I am also interested in understanding the importance of natural and anthropogenic aerosol changes in the atmosphere on the terrestrial biosphere, the ocean and climate.