Sentences with phrase «many ecological studies»

The basic images grow out of ecological studies of the relationships of organisms to each other in physical space.
The ecological study of nature involves, instead, the study of the relations between individual organisms within their natural environments.
Native Seeds / SEARCH has been granted a special use permit from the National Forest Service to initiate permanent marking and mapping of plants, ecological studies, and a management plan proposal.
Many ecological studies support the key role of structural diversity (sometimes referred to technically as floristic heterogeneity) in increased biodiversity — of many types in many ecosystems well beyond the realm of coffee growing.
If approved by the City of Crystal Lake, Lakewood and the Crystal Lake Park District, the measure could be a bellwether for an increase in spending on ecological studies needed to keep the lake healthy, according to members of Watershed Management and Lake Ecology Agency.
21 studies: 13 for skilled birth attendance (10 before - after or non-randomised studies and 3 observational studies) and 9 historical or ecological studies for emergency obstetric care
A $ 91,000 ecological study proposed for Crystal Lake has received the unanimous approval of the City Council.
The goal of her ecological studies, she says, «is to slowly chip away at this overwhelming amount of not - knowledge.
Conservation groups challenge Bush - era «energy corridors» that threaten wilderness areas, including a long - term ecological study site
I'm very interested to see how we can implement technology more into ecological studies.
The first ecological study of an entire glacier has found that microbes drastically reduce surface reflectivity and have a non-negligible impact on the amount of sunlight that is reflected into space.
«However, individual - level inferences can not be made using the ecological studies cited frequently in the debate over medical marijuana.»
Dr. Bachhuber is author of an ecological study finding a protective effect of medical marijuana regulation on opioid overdose mortality,
«Ecological studies such as the one proposed here....
«This kind of ecological study identifying a positive relationship between biodiversity and ecosystem services suggests that higher plant diversity will increase services from agroecosystems, and that has immediate implications for management practices and policies for sustainable agriculture, including Chesapeake Bay water quality,» Kaye said.
In a press conference Monday at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco, three researchers discussed how detailed satellite observations have facilitated ecological studies of change over time.
Here, the evidence is clear but weak, being rooted in ecological studies whose results have not been confirmed through more rigorous methods.
Previous ecological studies have shown that Timema do not migrate long distances.
Accordingly, it would also be worthwhile to carry out comparative phylogenetic - ecological studies on various Swiss lakes.
Until now, theoretical ecological studies on the response of ecosystems to various perturbations have focused on the resilience of such ecosystems.
The researchers said other factors, in addition to better air quality, could also contribute to the drops in death rates from respiratory diseases — a limitation of any retrospective analysis of health - environmental associations in ecological studies.
As part of the workshop, Dave took the educators on a field trip to conduct a mini ecological study using DNA barcoding to identify plants, animals, and fungi from the local habitat.
We thank Panthera, who was a partner in the Long Term Ecological Study.
The den visit was part of the ongoing long - term ecological study on snow leopards in Mongolia's South Gobi province that's been conducted by the Snow Leopard Conservation Foundation, Snow Leopard Trust, and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences since 2008.
Larger sex differences in obesity rates were reported in countries with greater gender inequality, quantitatively assessed by the global gender gap index, and the gender inequality index in multicountry ecological studies (7 — 9).
New ecological studies important for Passenger Pigeon restoration are underway.
Understanding the biomechanics of this little snail could help engineers design some nifty sea - faring robots, and it could also help with ecological studies: Zooplankton like helicina move upwards to the surface of the ocean each night to eat (and avoid being eaten), and this mass migration of tiny organisms is one of the biggest biomass movements on the planet.
As we head into the 5th year of our long - term ecological study, six snow leopards are currently wearing GPS tracking collars, including Aztai, the first cat we had ever collared.
Fast Facts: Panthera has quit the Long Term Ecological Study (LTES) on snow leopards The Snow Leopard Trust will continue the groundbreaking research without interruption We're planning to expand the study further in 2013
Through our long - term ecological study in the Tost region of Mongolia, we are learning a great deal about the lives of wild snow leopards.
During the last week of May, our field researchers began to observe some interesting behavior in two of the female snow leopards in our long - term ecological study.
This January, we saw some incredible movements from the snow leopards in our long - term ecological study.
2000 Nagata C. Ecological study of the association between soy product intake and mortality from cancer and heart disease in Japan.
This is an «ecological study», where they compare data from different countries.
This was an «ecological study» that looked at how 42 countries in Europe eat (i.e. overall consumption of common foods as a population) compared to that country's incidence of CVD (including high blood pressure and high blood glucose).
Per capita sugar consumption is associated with severe childhood asthma: an ecological study of 53 countries
A multicountry ecological study of cancer incidence rates in 2008 with respect to various risk - modifying factors.
Ecological studies — survey and compare populations as they already exist, and see what they eat and how healthy they are
Ecological studies such as these need to be interpreted alongside other studies investigating the association between calorie intake (including from HFCS), weight and diabetes at an individual level, so that the full picture of the relationships involved can be established.
This ecological study suggests that countries with a high availability of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)-- defined as more than 0.5 kg per person per year — may have higher diabetes levels than those defined as having low HFCS availability.
This report comes from an ecological study looking into whether there is a link between diabetes levels and the availability of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
Additional Notes: The National Park charges a visitor fee of USD100, payable on arrival, which funds park maintenance and supervision in the Galápagos, as well as ecological study, conservation, and infrastructure development in Ecuador's other National Parks.
This unique home borders on the edge of a Monterey pine forest natural reserve (ecological study area), where deer, hawks, squirrels, quail and wild turkey call home.
The identification of individuals within a population and the collection of reliable information on distribution, habitat use, and life history traits are the basic requirement for behavioral and ecological studies of a species.
He conducted ecological studies in the area from 1982 to 84.
Recent ecological studies have measured local submarine groundwater seepages to determine contributions of solutes and nutrients to coastal ecosystems.
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100716/full/news.2010.359.html Nature News article on work with Laura Martin on ecological study sites by anthromes.
Paleo - ecological studies (tree rings and sediment studies) show centennial cycles of ENSO intensity correlating with, for example, the Medieval Warm Period and Little Ice Age — thus implying a link with solar magnetic cycles.
Kasischke, E.S., Boreal ecosystems in the global carbon cycle, pp. 19 - 30 in Fire, Climate Change and Carbon Cycling in the Boreal Forest, Kasischke, E.S., and B.J. Stocks (editors), Ecological Studies Series, Springer - Verlag, New York, 2000.
A large number of published ecological studies fail to include basic information about the climate data used.
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