Sentences with phrase «of ecological interactions»

At best, changes of such magnitude would trigger dramatic re-organization of ecosystems across the globe that would play out over the next few centuries; at worst, extinction rates would elevate considerably for the many species adapted to pre-global warming conditions, via mechanisms described above (inability to disperse or evolve fast enough to keep pace with the extremely rapid rate of climate change, and disruption of ecological interactions within communities as species respond individualistically).

By enabling scientists to reversibly control local population abundance, daisy drives could become a valuable tool for the study of ecological interactions and the likely consequences of releasing global RNA - guided suppression drives.

- MPG — Establishment of an International Max Planck Research School in Jena, «The Exploration of Ecological Interactions with Molecular and Chemical Techniques»

Anyone affiliated with a research institution can win up to $ 400 for a photo or visualization image that best captures the aesthetics of ecological interactions.

Not exact matches

Connectedness as causal dependence also seems to be what Callicott has in mind when he says that our states of consciousness are formed through adaptive interaction with the ecological organization of nature (Callicott 1986).

Making the point in evolutionary terms Callicott reminds us that «the very structure of one's psyche and rational faculties are formed through adaptive interaction with the ecological organization of nature.»

Also in the face of the ecological disaster created by the modern ideas of total separation of humans from nature and of the unlimited technological exploitation of nature, it is proper for primal vision to demand, not an undifferentiated unity of God, humanity and nature or to go back to the traditional worship of nature - spirits, but to seek a spiritual framework of unity in which differentiation may go along with a relation of responsible participatory interaction between them, enabling the development of human community in accordance with the Divine purpose and with reverence for the community of life on earth and in harmony with nature's cycles to sustain and renew all life continuously.

The interaction of sociological theology and ecological theology can lead to an ecologically sensitive sociological theology and a sociologically sensitive ecological theology.

Process thought, reflecting upon the mutual interaction among God, humanity, and natural actualities, conveys a sense of ecological balance between both nature and God.

We need to have our thought checked and corrected by deconstructive postmodernism and enriched and developed through interaction with Asian, communitarian, ecological, and feminist thought as well as that of primal peoples.

Birch and Cobb maintain that the ecological model is more adequate than the mechanical model for explaining DNA, the cell, other biological subject matter (as well as subatomic physics), because it holds that living things behave as they do only in interaction with other things which constitute their environment (LL 83) and because «the constituent elements of the structure at each level (of an organism) operate in patterns of interconnectedness which are not mechanical» (LL 83).

It's a city with a living, evolving «ecological web of interactions» between man and animal, according to Gavin Van Horn.

Live music, colorful critters, and oodles of audience interaction make this show a fun ecological romp in the wild!

«I've spent a lot of time over the years looking at other isotopes from a diversity of fauna on the island and have answered all sorts of questions about animal interactions and ecological change, but big questions remain unanswered about differences in mobility among organisms as well as changes in their mobility over time.»

Our ability to assess biological diversity, ecosystem health, ecological interactions, and a wide range of other important processes is largely dependent on accurately recognizing species.

Besides affecting the species themselves, such changes could have wider effects by limiting the movement of nutrients and altering ecological interactions.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

The study «An ecological regime shift resulting from disrupted predator - prey interactions in Holocene Australia» also involved Professors Corey Bradshaw and Barry Brook from the University of Adelaide's Environment Institute and Professor Chris Johnson from the University of Tasmania.

Urban Transformation — these projects work to create new types of social - ecological interactions around urban space.

The nutritional supplement for their leaves can have a major ecological significance and may also have been decisive for the evolution of ant - plant interactions,» says Joachim Offenberg.

«We found that the local presence and abundance of a species reflect not only its need for particular temperatures and environmental conditions but also its ecological interactions.

But our research shows that a decline in large vertebrate populations and the loss of key ecological interactions also poses a serious risk for the maintenance of tropical forest carbon storage.

«Our findings raise new questions about the effects and interactions of ecological, social, and cultural factors, and our framework offers a new tool to address them,» González - Forero says.

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.

Unraveling interactions and events in biological scenarios typically requires ecological perspectives; perhaps space weather, they thought, was one necessary component of the grander ecological conditions that lead to mass stranding events.

According to Barrett: «Ecological constraints acting on juveniles determine the level of social interaction between infant and juvenile gelada.»

«We see an ecological cascade of effects across the whole pollinator community, fundamentally changing the structure of plant - pollinator interaction networks,» says Berry Brosi, a biologist at Emory University and lead author of the study.

«Compiling such a highly resolved food web was possible for the Messel because of the exquisite preservation of soft body parts and ecological traces in the deposit,» she says, «and because my co-author, Conrad Labandeira, is one of the world's foremost experts on fossil plant - insect interactions.»

One common tool is applicable to the vast array of ecological and social science interactions at the critical wildfire / urban interface: more effective land - use planning, along with the regulations that guide it.

In the future, the understanding of this interaction between two brains would allow for the comprehension and analysis of very complex aspects of the fields of psychology, sociology, psychiatry, or education, using the neural images within an ecological or real - world context.

The findings of this study will be very useful to direct future studies on diversity of butterflies, ecological interactions between species and to improve their conservation by prioritising and avoiding mixing of divergent lineages.

We expect that the results of in vivo selection may differ when mice are pre ‐ colonized with a microbiota due to changes in nutrient availability and other ecological interactions, including competition or syntrophy.

Recent Insights on Biological and Ecological Aspects of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi and Their Interactions — Antonietta Mello, Frontiers in Microbiology

The studies analyzed the reaction of plants to certain ecological interactions in a manner that brings together molecular biology and ecology.

The best starting point is expanding our knowledge of the passenger pigeon's ecological interactions with other species.

The roles of other ecological interactions in shaping divergent phenotypes during such radiations have received less attention.

Spatial and temporal dynamics of disturbance interactions along an ecological gradient [PhD dissertation].

Flowering times are well - documented indicators of the ecological effects of climate change and are linked to numerous ecosystem processes and trophic interactions.

Urs Landergott, J. Jakob Schneller, Rolf Holderegger & John D. Thompson — 2009 (1)([email protected]) Keywords: cost of restoration, cytoplasmic male sterility, ecological gradient, gynodioecy, local adaptation, nuclear - cytoplasmic interactions, offspring sex ratio

A study of ecosystem interaction chains in a remote atoll in the Pacific Ocean suggests that human disturbances, such as forest conversions, can corrupt the links that tie together ecological interactions and cause the chains to become radically shortened or go extinct.

He began focusing his research on the interactions between wildlife and people in the Indian Himalayas; producing several landmark research papers on the complexities and ecological impacts of human natural resource use and conflicts throughout his career.

The participants will also explore the interaction of technology development, space travel, and ecological preservation.

One of the main challenges to the scientific community involved in biology conservation is to demonstrate that the loss and damage of habitats, ecological interactions and species generates a prejudice (present and future) that far exceeds the profits from the exploitation of natural resources and agricultural production.

We need to demonstrate the loss of habitats, ecological interactions and species generate bigger losses than profits from natural resources and agricultural production's exploitation.

In the early twenty - first century, however, the spread of tensions to many areas of the planet and the difficulties in solving them, as well as the unprecedented ecological deterioration due to the interaction of human activities with the biosphere have reached levels that are threatening the very survival of humankind.

However, for students to understand, and communicate, some of the important ecological, conservationist arguments, they benefit from a conceptual understanding of food webs, ecological interactions, and natural selection.

The ecological importance of Tubbataha Reef National Park, and the fact its isolation preserved it from the negative consequences of human interaction, make this 97 km ² marine and bird sanctuary extremely well preserved.

His poetic voice seeks to connect the audience directly to political, social and ecological priorities as a result of their interaction with his work.

Projections of future fire must therefore not only account for responses of different fuel systems to climatic change but the wider range of ecological and human effects on interactions between fire and vegetation.»

Spatial and temporal patterns of greenness on the Yamal Peninsula, Russia: interactions of ecological and social factors affecting the Arctic normalized difference vegetation index