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«Finding these animals is going to take some effort, as our computer - simulation analysis of the data showed that we need more photos from more localities just to get a better estimate of migration patterns at even regional scales,» Dr Meekan said.

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That sent him to the School of Marine and Atmospheric Science at the University of Miami to study migration patterns.
A recent scientific paper looking at Latin America lists «similar patterns of ecosystem recovery following rural - urban migration» in Patagonia, northwest Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Honduras and the montane deserts and Andean tundra ecosystems of Bolivia, Argentina and Peru.
That's partly because the conventional technique of marking birds with bands has failed miserably at clarifying the bird's migration patterns — only one or two out of tens of thousands of banded birds are ever recovered.
By combining genetic data, ancestry information, and electronic health records, scientists are able to identify neighborhood - level patterns of migration in the New York City area, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
The Apex Predators Program, located at the NEFSC's Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island, collects basic demographic information about sharks and their life histories by conducting research on their distribution and migration patterns, age and growth, reproductive biology, and feeding ecology.
BETHESDA, MD — By combining genetic data, ancestry information, and electronic health records, scientists are able to identify neighborhood - level patterns of migration in the New York City area, according to research presented at the American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) 2015 Annual Meeting in Baltimore.
But to do this, we need to look at two very important points: Neanderthal DNA and the migration pattern itself.
A study conducted at Northeastern University analyzed the migration and mobility patterns of notable intellectuals in North America over the last 2,000 years.
They examine the meaning demographics and look at the changing population structure of the UK and how this provides both threats and opportunities for business with a focus upon population size, age, housing and migration patterns.
But the implications of the TFA migration extend beyond the state's classrooms, where high poverty rates and entrenched patterns of segregation have kept academic achievement at bay.
Shearwaters are offshore birds that live over water for months at a time in both summer and winter depending on the migration pattern.
At Your Service examines aspects of service industries such as building construction, cleaning and catering as a way of addressing concepts of belonging, patterns of migration and the less - than - distinct roles of host / guest and native / foreigner.
While butterfly populations worldwide struggle to stay afloat as the global temperature rises and changes their migration patterns and food sources, scientists have been hard at work coming up with their replacement - the
Gavin suggests Maunder was mild at only -.3 C but Richard Alley, historical records, glacier movement, migration patterns, clothing trends, crop records, ice cores suggest a much deeper NH dip in temps (1 - 2C).
If such projections prove true, it will be interesting to see how they affect local economies and migration patterns, especially given the influx into the Sun Belt at the end of the last century.
Peterson and Haug 2006 and Newton et al 2006, for example, attribute the coherence to latitudinal migrations of the ITCZ, hypothesizing that it (and other patterns) was further north in the Medieval period and further south in the Little Ice Age, explaining antiphase changes in precipitation whereby northerly tropical sites became drier in the Little Ice Age (Cariaco, Yucatan etc 15N or so) while more southerly tropical sites became wetter in the Little Ice Age (Lake Titicaca, Lake Malawi, Quelccaya etc. all at 10S or so).
Animals are changing migration patterns and plants are changing the dates of activity,» such as trees budding their leaves earlier in the spring and dropping them later in the fall, Josef Werne, a professor of geology and environmental science at the University of Pittsburgh, told Live Science.
But storms are capricious, and notoriously hard to map accurately, so the researchers decided that the surest guide to any pattern of migration would be the latitude at the point of maximum intensity.
Just last September, an acoustic monitoring program was established by the Bioacoustics Research Program at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology in alliance with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for this very reason: to track whales» seasonal migration patterns and provide information to New York state policymakers who develop strategies and management plans to protect these threatened mammals.This listening system originated with the thirteen high - tech buoys deployed around Massachusetts Bay which sounds an alarm to ship captains warning them of the presence of whales so that they will reduce the sped of their vessels to 10 knots.
They will be moving more high income jobs into the area, and create (at least in the short - term) changes to the migration pattern for that area as it would be more desirable.
The Best Cities for Middle - Class Families Index by the Chapman Center for Demographics and Policy looked at housing affordability, employment trends, migration patterns, income growth, and how long it takes to commute in U.S. metropolitan areas with a population more than 500,000 and determined that many of the top areas for middle - class families are midsize.
For an in - depth look at migration patterns, the Census offers metro - to - metro migration flow tables, county - to - county migration flow tables, and a Census Flows Mapper.
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