Sentences with phrase «new ecological study»

New ecological studies important for Passenger Pigeon restoration are underway.

Not exact matches

Poorly camouflaged insects can kick off a cascade of ecological impacts, new CU - Boulder study finds October 21, 2013 • Natural Sciences, Research, Academics, Environment

And in terms of damage to fisheries and other recreational activities, the dollar toll for the ecological unraveling of the lakes due to ballast invasions was pegged in a 2008 University of Notre Dame study at $ 200 million annually — a number the study authors predicted would grow as new invasive species are discovered.

The study, «Homogenizing an Urban Habitat Mosaic: Arthropod diversity declines in New York City parks after Super Storm Sandy,» was published in the journal Ecological Applications.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

So reports a new study in the journal Ecological Monographs, based on an exhaustive three - year analysis of the Colorado River in Glen and Grand Canyons.

ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO — Hot spots of plant biodiversity may also be magnets for invading weeds that thrive in prime growing conditions, according to a study described here yesterday at the annual meeting of the Ecological Society of America.

In a study published this month in Ecological Entomology, biologists picked out brooding females from solitary and social nests, transferred them into new webs, and forced them to go it alone.

«In the last decade, there's been a burst in new studies, including additional research sites and novel techniques, which demand that we reconsider the climatic, ecological and cultural developments that occurred.»

In order to explore the factors that hinder and help individuals transition from long - term residential substance abuse treatment centers to the community, Dr. Manuel and her collaborators, Dr. Obie Nichols and Ms. Erin Palmer, from Services for the UnderServed, Inc., (SUS) conducted a qualitative socio - ecological model - based study, «Barriers and Facilitators to Successful Transition from Long - Term Residential Substance Abuse Treatment,» the findings of which were recently presented at the 2016 Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Providers of New York State conference.

But this is the first time, to my knowledge, that the direct link is established from a novel gene to a novel structure to the invasion of a completely new ecological opportunity,» said Abderrahman Khila, an evolutionary and developmental genomicist at the Institute of Functional Genomics of Lyon, who led the study on the delicate insects called water striders.

The new carbon map also reveals Perú's extremely high ecological diversity and it provides the critical input to studies of deforestation and forest degradation for conservation, land use, and enforcement purposes.

The researchers created 50 study plots in the Chihuahuan desert in New Mexico, at the Jornada Long Term Ecological Research site.

Part of the answer can be found in a new study appearing this week in Science that shows how the sudden emergence of just one or two new genes can profoundly transform organisms» appearance, behavior and ecological niche.

In this study we've uncovered a new use for it in an ecological context.»

In the new study, Kharrazi and researchers at IIASA applied an approach first developed to study ecological networks in order to better understand the dynamics and properties of the global commodity trade system.

So reports a new study released today in the journal Environmental Science & Technology, which is one of the first to explore the ecological consequences of stimulant pollution in urban streams.

A new study has mapped food specialization in hummingbird communities across the Americas, leading to a rare documentation of a large scale ecological pattern.

Now, a first - of - its - kind field study by Elbroch and Davis colleague Heiko Wittmer has shed new light on the puma's ecological role.

A new study by JCU PhD student Anna Pintor, published in the journal Ecological Monographs, is one of the first to test the Climatic Variability Hypothesis (CVH)-- which proposes that animals living in environmentally variable areas should be able to tolerate more environmental fluctuations as a result.

The new study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, makes an analogy between the largest companies in seafood industry and keystone species in ecological communities.

A new international standard for wood packaging material used in international trade is significantly slowing the inadvertent export of stowaway invasive bark - and wood - boring insects, according to a study by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS).

By comparing historical changes in 12 bodies of water worldwide, a new study highlights the extent to which civilization's advance has led to ecological degradation.

According to a new analysis in the journal Ecological Monographs, by researchers at the University of Wisconsin — Madison and colleagues, the world's rivers and streams pump about 10 times more methane into our atmosphere than scientists estimated in previous studies.

The authors of the new study claim: «We anticipate, along with a small but growing number of scholars, that ecological grief will become an increasingly common human response to the losses encountered in the anthropocene.»

It might seem that for a rain forest the more trees the merrier, but a new study by scientists at the Carnegie Institution warns that non-native trees invading a rain forest can change its basic ecological structure — rendering it less hospitable to the myriad plant and animal species that depend on its resources.

University of Alberta scientists Suzanne Tank, who was not involved in the new study, said that the release of sediments from the new slumps in the Canadian permafrost has significant ecological implications.

March 16, 2011 Rock - paper - scissors tournaments explain ecological diversity The mystery of biodiversity — how thousands of similar species can co-exist in a single ecosystem — might best be understood as the result of a massive rock - paper - scissors tournament, a new study has revealed.

The aim of the new study, then, was to combine ecological and economic models into one, to get a better sense of the potential costs and benefits of grasses as biofuels.

Our new tools overcome the limitations of classical approximations for the scientific study of complex systems, such as social organizations, biological organisms and ecological communities.

William Villalongo sets African sculpture and modernist painting soaring together among the stars; the Kenyan artist Wanuri Kahiu films ecological cataclysm and renewal in ages to come; William Cordova, who lives in New York and Lima, Peru, recreates the Falcon spaceship from George Lucas's «Star Wars,» now equipped with a cultural studies library.

William Villalongo sets African sculpture and modernist painting soaring together among the stars; the Kenyan artist Wanuri Kahiu films ecological cataclysm and renewal in ages to come; William Cordova, who lives in New York and Lima, Peru, recreates the Millennium Falcon from «Star Wars,» now equipped with a cultural studies library.

A new study found that whales play an important ecological role in the discharge of their urine and feces, through which they release nitrogen and iron into the ocean ecosystem.

A new taxpayer - funded NASA / Penn State «scientific» study warns that «ecosystem - valuing universalist» (really «green») aliens might realize that we have been altering «the chemical composition of Earth's atmosphere,» conclude that we have «ecological destructive tendencies,» and «wipe humanity out in order to preserve the Earth system as a whole.»

With the Canadian led IPY - CFL sampling program, new highlights on winter ecological processes and confirmation of some of the earlier observations made during previous and scarce overwintering scientific studies help to refine our understanding of the structure and functioning of the arctic marine ecosystem.

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 melting Arctic means new areas will be open to commercial fishing but scientists — and bordering countries — say they need time to study the ecological and economic risks.

University of Alberta scientists Suzanne Tank, who was not involved in the new study, said that the release of sediments from the new slumps in the Canadian permafrost has significant ecological implications.

The July 2006 study [PDF download] compared the typical industrially grown sheep in the two countries, and showed that New Zealand's agribusiness players are a bit better in their ecological practices than their British counterparts.

But where is the beef?Cornell scientist Christian Peters is the lead author on the study showing that although a low - fat vegetarian diet has a much smaller footprint than a typical New Yorker, a little meat can go a long way in reducing the ecological footprint.

(09/16/2008) Pollination services provided by insects are worth $ 216 billion ($ 153 billion) a year reports a new study published in Ecological Economics.

The ecological model that has guided this study since its inception is extended to include new outcomes and expanded contexts associated with adolescent development.