Sentences with phrase «level in species»

This enables plants to maintain their level of biomass at an approximately equal level in species - poor as well as species - rich ecosystems.

Since 2009, studies by Pan's group, and by tropical ecologist Luis Fernandez at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in California, have found high mercury levels in some species of fish, particularly large catfish and in fish that eat other fish.

Not exact matches

Chad has repeatedly betrayed: his non-comprehension of what a species - level change is (i.e. the focus of PE) and that this most minor of changes does not require a wholesale reordering of a genome; his inability to grasp that gradualism, although the clear minority in the fossil record, is present in various lineages (See Gould's various references to Foraminfera); his non-comprehension of the role of historic genetic contingency (i.e. that silent mutations can coalesce into rather dramatic novel functionality, e.g. Lenskis» E. coli); that the nodes of PE are more than sufficient for the requisite species - level evolutionary changes (See Pod Mrcaru lizards); etc, etc..

Certain behaviours are universally detrimental to a species survival and as such should, at some level, be biologically «programmed» in to humans, and reflected in our socio - norms.

If human - level intelligence arose in a solitary hunter like, say, a species descended from Bengal tigers, it would have an entirely different moral compass.

One is changed environmental conditions for a discrete subpopulation of the original population, such as when ice ages cause dramatic changes in sea levels, cutting species into subgroups.

Man is in reality, many persons now tell us, a biological species, with a superficial adaptation to those artificial conditions of life which we call civilization; but under his skin, and beneath the thin top level of his inquiring, aggressive, clever mind, he is still what he has always been — an acquisitive, competitive, power - seeking, warring beast, with which the divine Spirit must still «strive,» even as at the beginning of human history.

To him, this Kingdom was not located in another place called heaven or in a future millennium, but could best be described in modern terms as a level of consciousness in which one recognized the immanence of God in human life and the interconnected, interacting, interdependent nature of the entire human species.

-- Last but not least, as members of the human species, our universal responsibility is to encourage comprehension and appreciation for the excellence of the human spirit in all its manifestations; and for inspiring awe and wonder for a cosmos that brought forth life and consciousness and holds out the possibility of its continued evolution toward higher levels of insight, understanding, love, and compassion.

But the sense in which «relative» applies to an event, say, is systematically different from the sense in which it applies to an ordinary quality at some lower level of abstractness, whether genus or species.

Many biologists, and not the least eminent among them (all being convinced that Man, like everything else, emerged by evolutionary means, i.e. was born in Nature) undoubtedly still believe that the human species, having attained the level of Homo sapiens, has reached an upper organic limit beyond which it can not develop, so that anthropogenesis is only of retrospective interest.

Furthermore, as Gould noted, while we don't generally expect to see smooth transitions between species in the fossil record, these transitions are well represented at higher taxonomic levels.

We debate endlessly about Peace, Democracy, the Rights of Man, the conditions of racial and individual eugenics, the value and morality of scientific research pushed to the uttermost limit, and the true nature of the Kingdom of God; but here again, how can we fail to see that each of these inescapable questions has two aspects, and therefore two answers, according to whether we regard the human species as culminating in the individual or as pursuing a collective course towards higher levels of complexity and consciousness?

This message is common these days - in church as well as «new age» literature - that we as a species (and more importantly as individuals) presently need to raise our spiritual connection to the Source of Life, individually and on a planetary level, if we wish to survive.

Certainly consciousness does not exist at the level of atoms and electrons, nor does reflective self - awareness seem to appear in evolution until the human species comes onto the scene.

Anyone making a thorough scientific study of religious and philosophical thought through out the world, including not only a culturally self centered conceited study of Judeo - Christain - Islamic Western forms alone... would find a much more rich variety of understanding, meeting the needs of the many levels of developed conciousness in the human species.

ie the biochemical reactions in your brain that evolved to help our species deal with our level of consciousness.

Shading is also useful for some varieties, namely the chinense and pubescens species in the high, dry altitudes of the Southwest that have high levels of ultraviolet light.

For example, 81 % of the coffee in Nicaragua and El Salvador grew under a shade canopy in 1996, and although recent surveys document declines in shade tree diversity since then, these declines mostly occurred on larger farms; in contrast, many smallholder cooperatives preserve high levels of biodiversity, including more than 100 species of shade trees on fewer than 30 farms (Méndez et al. 2010a).

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder is investigating whether there are opportunities to use the limited volumes of environmental water available to provide refuge habitat for aquatic species (particularly if the decay of the algal bloom leads to low oxygen levels in the waterways).

In addition to the volume released from Hume Dam, return flows and the Commonwealth's 151 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border to meet environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes and Coorong, and provide suitable habitat conditions (both salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation specieIn addition to the volume released from Hume Dam, return flows and the Commonwealth's 151 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border to meet environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes and Coorong, and provide suitable habitat conditions (both salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation speciein the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes and Coorong, and provide suitable habitat conditions (both salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation speciein the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation species.

In addition to this volume released from Hume Dam and the volume approved for the Coorong, return flows and the Commonwealth's 134 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border for meeting environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes Coorong and providing suitable habitat conditions (salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation specieIn addition to this volume released from Hume Dam and the volume approved for the Coorong, return flows and the Commonwealth's 134 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border for meeting environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes Coorong and providing suitable habitat conditions (salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation speciein the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes Coorong and providing suitable habitat conditions (salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation speciein the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation species.

There, you can read about Hispaniola's great biodiversity, including 30 endemic bird species; the importance of the island to birds that winter and migrate through the West Indies and breed in North America; and the critical role of shade coffee in preserving habitat on an island with a very high level of deforestation.

They used information on birds and trees in landscapes with different levels of production output to project how different species» population sizes would respond to different ways of using the land.

But this is not necessarily an indictment because there is no difference in the composition of the different pod types and varieties of the annuum species, except in flavor elements and heat level.

Low levels of productivity were a direct result of these conditions, but also as a consequence of low levels of organic matter in the soil (between 0.3 and 1 percent), acidity (pH fluctuating between 4.5 and 5) and low biodiversity (only 2 to 7 plant species were found in the agricultural systems and only 1 to 8 species in the forest systems).

«The historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human — at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life - systems, in a time - developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience... The Great Work now, as we move into a new millennium, is to carry out the transition from a period of human devastation of the Earth to a period when humans would be present to the planet in a mutually beneficial manner.»

Fifty - four clubs in the first eight levels of the football pyramid are named after birds, with 20 different species represented.

Since late February, researchers from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum and Lincoln Park Zoo have been monitoring levels of cortisol (known as the stress hormone) in three species that have been reintroduced or restored by the forest preserve: wood frogs (designated as «in great need of conservation» in Illinois); spotted salamanders, a rare species for northeastern Illinois; and spring peepers, a frog species whose local populations are in decline.

The species is one of the world's largest freshwater fishes, capable of growing to more than 10 feet and upwards of 400 pounds, and is listed as protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix IIspecies is one of the world's largest freshwater fishes, capable of growing to more than 10 feet and upwards of 400 pounds, and is listed as protected by the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix IISpecies of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) at the Appendix II level.

Ultrasound at diagnostic levels has been shown to produce lung damage and focal haemorrhage in a number of mammalian species.

This region has the highest oxytocin levels in the brain and has high levels of oxytocin receptors across all species from mice to humans.

A catch and release advisory is in effect for several bodies of water in Newburgh after a study finds elevated levels of PFOS in certain fish species in the area.

Additionally, the researchers found, that if a forest does a good job of producing timber and regulating the climate, then this combination may go hand in hand with high levels of species diversity in the same forest.

In early October, the triennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), the world's largest wildlife trade conference, granted the African grey parrot the highest level of international protection, including the prohibition of international commercial trade of the animaIn early October, the triennial meeting of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), the world's largest wildlife trade conference, granted the African grey parrot the highest level of international protection, including the prohibition of international commercial trade of the animain Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites), the world's largest wildlife trade conference, granted the African grey parrot the highest level of international protection, including the prohibition of international commercial trade of the animal.

In Drosophila sechellia, scientists found much lower levels of the precursor compound needed for dopamine biosynthesis than was found in other Drosophila specieIn Drosophila sechellia, scientists found much lower levels of the precursor compound needed for dopamine biosynthesis than was found in other Drosophila speciein other Drosophila species.

However, their populations have decreased in some states, so inclusion in the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Federal Register may help keep them and other bee species at healthy population levels.

When Taylor started his work, there was a lot of research on mercury levels in freshwater fish and in some well - known commercial saltwater species, like swordfish and tuna.

In some cases, a single species may show a high level of morphological variation, while in other cases, multiple morphologically similar species may be hidden under a single species namIn some cases, a single species may show a high level of morphological variation, while in other cases, multiple morphologically similar species may be hidden under a single species namin other cases, multiple morphologically similar species may be hidden under a single species name.

«Much of our historical data about species» population - level responses to climate change comes from observational studies, which can suggest but not confirm causation,» said Anne Marie Panetta, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO).

The researchers are continuing to study more bluefin tissue samples to see if elevated radiation levels persist, and are also looking into radiation levels in other long distance migratory species including sea turtles, sharks and seabirds.

But of the mice that had both species, 6 percent showed severe kidney damage, high levels of E. coli in the kidney and signs that E. coli had moved from the kidney to the bloodstream, a form of UTI that can kill.

It can control population levels and put pressure on species to develop natural resistance, says Laurenson, who started working with the wolf project in the mid-1990s.

Recognizing that resistance is not «all or none» and that intermediate levels of resistance can have a continuum of effects on pest control, the authors describe five categories of field - evolved resistance and use them to classify 13 cases of resistance to five Bt toxins in transgenic corn and cotton based on monitoring data from five continents for nine major pest species.

Since 1990, six new species have turned up, most of them, like C. saterei, in the Amazon, where they dwell in the lower to middle levels of forest trees.

«I could go in and study the level of divergence in a population and never care about whether they're ranked as separate species.»

«For these cell - level «rules» to be translated into specific brain proportions, we would also expect to see these rules reflected in predictable growth patterns of the mammalian brain, particularly in species from the same group of mammals,» she said.

Steve: In theory, you could have a handheld device like a glucose meter that a diabetic might use and you just, you know, take a hair of some animal, put it in the device, and you get an instant read up based on the analysis of that little DNA section of what species you're looking at and, you know, take your caterpillar example that might sound like something that just a level - headed field biologist would be interested iIn theory, you could have a handheld device like a glucose meter that a diabetic might use and you just, you know, take a hair of some animal, put it in the device, and you get an instant read up based on the analysis of that little DNA section of what species you're looking at and, you know, take your caterpillar example that might sound like something that just a level - headed field biologist would be interested iin the device, and you get an instant read up based on the analysis of that little DNA section of what species you're looking at and, you know, take your caterpillar example that might sound like something that just a level - headed field biologist would be interested inin.

Scientists say reserves can help marine ecosystems and people adapt to five key impacts of climate change: ocean acidification; sea - level rise; increased intensity of storms; shifts in species distribution, and decreased productivity and oxygen availability.

Using the genomic technologies he's learned at the IGB, Woolbright hopes to develop a research program that investigates climate - driven changes in species interactions at the gene level.