Sentences with phrase «leading ecologist»

(05/27/2008) Next generation biofuels could decimate tropical forests says a leading ecologist from the University of Minnesota.

A leading ecologist with decades of experience in the effects of disturbance on ecosystems, Woodwell shows that diverse industrial activities — from nuclear power production to fossil - fuel burning to contemporary agricultural practices — are affecting the chemical processes that underpin all life on Earth.

This overlap led ecologist Jason Rohr of the University of South Florida in Tampa to wonder if the two species competed for resources.

Not exact matches

«This kind of deception is common in our society, but it is so difficult to prove that any other animal does it,» said lead researcher Aliza le Roux, a behavioral ecologist at the University of the Free State in South Africa.

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

My argument is not against the intentions and actual sensibility of leading deep ecologists.

Deep ecologists, like feminists, have been led to explorations of history, of individual psychology, and of how we raise and educate our children.

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.

Carter's fascination with the West leads him on to learned discussion of Frederick Jackson Turner's «frontier thesis» (which, despite flaws, Carter holds to be the most influential statement ever by an historian of America), along with the views of Russian ecologists, American social scientists, and a wide variety of conservationists.

«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.

«Our aim was to explore the effect of a more acidic ocean on every gene in the coral genome,» says study lead author Dr Aurelie Moya, a molecular ecologist with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University.

Gathering the data was the first step in a multiphase project to identify strategies that will help all cities effectively sip, rather than chug, available resources, says the study's lead author Chris Kennedy, an industrial ecologist at the University of Victoria in British Columbia.

John Mathai, lead author of the overarching carnivore community paper in the supplement and a wildlife ecologist from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, studies Hose's civet in the highlands of Sarawak.

«I'm surprised,» says Edward Ellis (no relation to Peter), an ecologist at the Universidad Veracruzana in Xalapa, Mexico, who led much of the fieldwork.

Led by paleontologists, the AP3 team also comprises geologists, anatomists, ecologists and biologists.

Fernando Valladares, a plant ecologist at the CSIC National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, who leads a 20 - strong team, expects that «at least half» of his staff «will go within a year, for sure.»

It may have replaced the dwindling eastern wolf atop many food chains, but the eastern coyote lacks the chops to become the big - game hunter of an ecosystem, new research led by a University of Nebraska - Lincoln ecologist shows.

John Maerz, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Georgia, says that adult salamanders that consume these earthworms are more successful at reproduction but that earthworms are too big for juvenile salamanders to eat, which leads to a net loss in salamander numbers.

For lead author Gail Ashton, a marine ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Tiburon, California, the study «adds to evidence that we're going to see very significant changes fairly soon.»

Using a computer to study the same question, a team led by ecologist Anthony Ives of the University of Wisconsin simulated interactions between species and how they cope with unpredictable environmental events.

Leading wildlife ecologists applaud the study for putting forward a surprising hypothesis and bringing together so much evidence from around the world.

«The measurement we use for assessing biodiversity is focused almost entirely on loss of species,» says ecologist Daniel E. Schindler, lead author of the paper.

«Any biofuel that causes land clearing is likely to increase global warming,» says ecologist Joseph Fargione of The Nature Conservancy, lead author of the second study.

«Mating with multiple partners improves the chances that at least one chick will have the genes to cope with the variable conditions to come,» explained Carlos Botero, an evolutionary ecologist and the lead researcher of the study, published yesterday in the journal PLoS ONE.

New York City Department of Environmental Protection ecologist John McLaughlin leads a project exploring urban oyster beds as natural water filters.

Rather than trying to catch females in the act, a team led by behavioral ecologist Ben Sheldon of the University of Oxford, U.K., let the eggs tell the story.

A study led by ecologists at UC Berkeley has found significant flaws in the research used to challenge the U.S. Forest Service plan to restore Sierra Nevada forests to less dense, and less fire - prone, environments.

At least, that's what a new study led by an Iowa State University ecologist suggests.

«There are certain [microbes] we all have, and certain things that are unique to individuals, but we really have no idea where we acquire these in our lifetime,» says James Meadow, the study's lead author and a microbial ecologist at the University of Oregon in Eugene.

The sterilizations are «not to control the coyote population size... it's purely to keep their DNA from being passed to a red wolf offspring,» says ecologist Eric Gese of Utah State University, Logan, a lead author of the new study and a member of the panel overseeing red wolf recovery efforts.

«Some of these elephants ended up in Pilanesberg National Park,» in South Africa's North West Province where part of the new study was carried out, says Graeme Shannon, a behavioral ecologist at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, and the lead author of the new study.

An army of students led by ecologist P. Dee Boersma of the University of Washington (UW), Seattle, pored over 136 recovery plans — FWS's blueprints for endangered species under its jurisdiction.

«Among 171 species, most are shifting upwards to recover temperature conditions that are optimum,» says ecologist and lead study author Jonathan Lenoir of AgroParisTech in Nancy, France.

To find out, a team led by reproductive ecologist Mary Rieger, of the Cooperative Research Center for Australian Weed Management and the University of Adelaide in Australia, took advantage of a unique opportunity.

«This happens because the presence of microbial cheaters ultimately reduces the total amount of enzymes produced by the microbial community, while the total amount of microbial biomass stays about the same» explains University of Vienna ecologist and IIASA guest researcher Christina Kaiser, who led the study.

This logic was affirmed in 2007 when Scott Creel, an ecologist at Montana State University, published a study suggesting that the presence of wolves stressed the elk, leading to poor female health and fewer pregnancies.

«Our defenses, pesticides and fungicides, are being asked to deal with larger and larger numbers of pests and diseases, each of which can evolve fungicide or pesticide resistance,» says ecologist Dan Bebber of the University of Exeter, UK, who led the new study.

And that means that auditory information is a big part of their cognitive repertoire,» says Rachael Shaw, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, who led the new study while a graduate student in comparative psychologist Nicola Clayton's lab at Cambridge.

An international team from 8 countries, led by animal ecologist Satoshi Ohdachi at Hokkaido University, analyzed the phylogenetic information (including existing data) of 169 house shrews.

One of the lead investigators is Bruce Mate, a cetacean ecologist at Oregon State University's Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport.

«It all sounds like it's magical — you put the guppies in, they eat the mosquitoes, everything is fine,» says Rana El - Sabaawi, an ecologist at the University of Victoria in Canada and lead author on the new paper.

«A lot of studies show personality in other invertebrates,» says Isaac Planas - Sitjà, a behavioral ecologist at the Free University of Brussels and the lead author of the study.

James Cook University ecologist Sandra Abell, who is leading the effort, rates the likelihood of success as «low» but «not impossible.»

«We need to be less sure about what land ecosystems will do and what we expect in the future,» says ecosystem ecologist Peter Reich of the University of Minnesota in St. Paul, who led the study.

«There's more flooding in late fall and winter,» said Eric Ward, an ecologist at NOAA Fisheries» Northwest Fisheries Science Center and lead author of the research.

«To say the effects were severe is putting it lightly,» says forest ecologist Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, California, who led the research.

«It's been shown now from cases right across the world, from the Caribbean and from the Pacific and Southeast Asia,» says marine ecologist Mark Spalding, lead author of the UNEP coral atlas.

«There is not enough water to sustain a complete coverage with continuous grass vegetation, which leads to the gap pattern,» explains Stephan Getzin, an ecologist at the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, who was not involved with the new work.

So a team of researchers led by Romina Scardamaglia, a behavioral ecologist at the University of Buenos Aires, decided to use new radio - tracking technology to snoop on two kinds of devious cowbirds in Argentina.

In September a team led by Jason Buchan, a molecular behavioral ecologist at Duke University, produced genetic evidence that male baboons are caring dads.