Sentences with phrase «of ecological data»

Over the next 30 years, these sites will collect hundreds of terabytes of ecological data annually to help understand the impacts of climate change, land - use change and invasive species on natural resources and biodiversity.

With a wilderness over twice the size of Yellowstone comprised of complex and abundant ecosystems, Katmai offers a wealth of ecological data for everything from the habits of brown bears to the adaptations of tundra plants.

For some research questions, drone surveys could be the holy grail of ecological data.

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The fact that the NEB asked Enbridge to conduct more detailed surveys and gather more baseline data AFTER the project was approved couldn't make it more obvious that the government's priority is economic development regardless of the socio - ecological toll.

Scientific data, both medical and ecological, warn us of the limited resources we have for supporting the human race.

The Technical Report, which provides a comprehensive assessment of ecological outcomes to environmental flows in the Edward - Wakool Selected Area in 2014 - 15, including details on data analysis techniques and statistical outputs, is expected to be published by late February 2016.

This is quite hard to tell the pattern of vote switching from one party to another from the aggregate ward - level data alone because of the well known ecological inference problem, but some insights can be gleaned from the pattern of correlations in the changes in party shares.

Decades of data collected as part of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research program have turned up some puzzles, such as surprising chemical gradients in lake waters that didn't quite make sense.

«By compiling the largest dataset of archaeological fish bones in the Pacific Northwest Coast, we demonstrate the value of using such data to establish an ecological baseline for modern fisheries,» says Iain McKechnie.

«Using Multicountry Ecological and Observational Studies to Determine Dietary Risk Factors for Alzheimer's Disease,» a review article from the Journal of the American College of Nutrition presents the data.

Using over a decade's worth of data from the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project, supported by the National Science Foundation, the investigators examined the effects of kelp on groups of organisms in the kelp forest ecosystem.

The first year of mathematical ecology covers an introduction to data and the modeling and analysis of ecological populations and communities.

The goals of the project include reconstructing extreme climate changes from the recent past (1894 - 2014), using historically referenced data to assess near - future global climate model projections, and to ultimately use this analysis to investigate ecological problems in Chesapeake Bay, such as eelgrass diebacks.

Project BudBurst launched in 2007 as a national field campaign designed to engage the public in the observation and collection of important ecological data based on the timing of leafing, flowering and fruiting of plants (aka plant phenophases).

The researchers collected data on a wide variety of ecological variables that could affect gloomy scale populations, including habitat characteristics, the temperature at each tree site, and the abundance of predators and parasitoids.

More specifically, she focuses on the development and use of multidisciplinary approaches, combining data from different sources, to identify the determinants of disease transmission in different ecological settings, providing evidence for the improvement of current control policies, as well as the development of new ones.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

As the Canadian government scientists note in the Fisheries Oceanography paper: «The 2010 phenomenal run... may forever remain an enigma due to the lack of precise ecological and chemical data.»

And they examined data from sources like the U.S. Census Bureau and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look at various socio - ecological factors that have been posited as contributors to individualism, including prevalence of infectious disease and disasters, rates of urbanization, changes in secularism, and trends in occupational status.

The National Ecological Observatories Network (NEON), a unique string of 80 - some data - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive specdata - collection stations spread from Alaska to Puerto Rico, is designed to bring ecology into the era of Big Data by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive specData by collecting masses of information on changes in climate, land use, biodiversity, and the spread of invasive species.

To find out whether the population has indeed grown, ecological modeler Craig Pease of Vermont Law School and David Mattson, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) grizzly field biologist, looked at 20 years of data on grizzlies tracked with radio collars or spotted by federal scientists in Yellowstone.

The US researchers drew up the initial list of all suspect species by combining information on outbreaks with ecological data.

«Right now, we lack the data needed to assess the ecological impacts of most of the synthetic chemicals in use today.

«We use this data to develop 3D models that have real distributions of space and ecological features.

But big data from genetic fingerprinting of animal DNA in a landscape combined with fine - resolution satellite data and sophisticated ecological models can.

Eva Hoffman, now a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin, and colleagues at Yale University looked at behavioral and ecological data from 178 modern primate species.

The latest technique for making these predictions is so - called ecological niche modelling, in which researchers log the locations of known species sightings, then gather environmental data for those places to define the ecological limits of the species» range.

It also allows for the incorporation of data from different disciplines, factoring in socioeconomic, ecological and environmental factors, for example.

«Scientists have developed indicators for biodiversity, such as land cover type, and modern ecological models that can digest satellite data and information on species occurrence are now offering near - real time monitoring of the land management impacts on biodiversity.

A new in - depth analysis of global bycatch data provides fisheries and the conservation community with the best information yet to help mitigate the ecological damage of bycatch and helps identify where mitigation measures are most needed.

Another $ 87.9 million would go to the construction of the National Ecological Observatory Network, a facility that will collect data on climate change, land - use change and US invasive species.

To conduct the study, Clark and Berdanier analyzed data dating back to 1993 on the annual growth rates of 28,879 individual trees from 35 species growing at the Duke University Forest in North Carolina's Piedmont, and at the Coweeta Long Term Ecological Research site in the state's western mountains.

«Forest Inventory and Analysis data is helping to address pressing ecological questions throughout the nation and world,» said Tony Ferguson, Director of the Northern Research Station and Forest Products Laboratory.

I retrieved data on multiple species from various research sites, and through comparative analyses of these data I explored trends and made assumptions that allowed me to sketch out various ecological interaction models.

«Innovations in sensor technologies have opened the floodgates in terms of data about the natural world, and there is a lot of room for creativity right now in ecological data analysis.»

Now, a year and a half later, data from the auspicious encounter show that minke whales have staked out a unique ecological niche that no other baleen whale can take advantage of: hunting krill under sea ice.

To understand where interior forest has been lost and therefore where risks from forest fragmentation might be greatest, the researchers used global tree cover data to map the forests of 2000 and 2012 and examined the patterns of change across ecological regions and biomes.

Recent ecological, genetic and archaeological data support the notion of human habitation in Beringia during the latest ice age.

This paleo climatic data and the distribution of archaeological sites associated with the HP, as well of that of the Still Bay tradition, which existed in the same environments about 5,000 years before (76,000 to 71,000 years ago), enabled the researchers to model the emergence of these traditions with two predictive algorithms that permitted them to reconstruct the ecological niche associated with each tradition and determine whether these niches differed significantly through time.

This error of interpretation is known as the «ecological fallacy,» and flaws all previous analyses of large data sets like the Demographic and Health Surveys.

And ecological data from living U.K. birds showed that over the past 26 years, their beaks have lengthened about a tenth of a millimeter.

«The data was collected as part of a programme supported by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 150 grasslands across Germany, the so called «Biodiversity Exploratories»,» says Professor Wolfgang Weisser of the Chair for Terrestrial Ecology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM)-- «it constitutes the most extensive ecological sampling in Europe.»

In 2004, the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority used extensive economic and ecological data to create a system of «no - take» protected areas that conserved at least 20 % of every habitat while covering only 33 % of the region.

A combination of genetic, anatomical, and ecological data convinced researchers that Pongo tapanuliensis, named for the Tapanuli districts where it is found, is distinct from the two accepted species of orangutan.

The team will couple their social, ecological and phytochemical data with climate data to develop models that predict the future of maple syrup production.

This frontier research needs to be furthered by conducting surveys and excavations in various environmental zones of Arabia in order to recover ecological data and information on hominin population history and changing adaptive behaviours.

This December 2012 workshop sought to determine the data needs and testing methods for the environmental release of synthetically designed algae and to assess the ecological effects and risks of synthetic organisms.

The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA - ON) relies on international collaboration to share data and understand the global ecological impacts of ocean acidification (OA).

She teaches a variety of undergraduate courses, including Environmental and Molecular Analysis of Disease, Ecological Analysis with GIS, and Where the City Meets the Sea, where students are challenged to develop research questions, collect data and communicate their scientific findings.

Amelia's broader research focuses on connecting ecological and spatial data to assess responses of coastal and marine systems to threats, in order to determine ecological ramifications of ecosystem degradation.