Sentences with phrase «of ecosystem ecology»

While punitive measures are being considered, Steve Hamilton, a professor of ecosystem ecology at the Kellogg Biological Station at Michigan State University who served on an EPA advisory committee for the cleanup, said the river has mostly returned to its former state.

Holgerson and co-author Peter Raymond, professor of ecosystem ecology at Yale, conducted their analysis by combining recent estimates on the global number of lakes and ponds with a compilation of direct measurements of CO2 and CH4 concentrations from 427 lakes and ponds.

Not exact matches

Academic students of ecology were among the first to sound the alarm about the loss of species diversity and the declining health of the planet's ecosystems.

Mike Webster from the University of St Andrews, UK, says that this study provides information about the basic biology and ecology of an underexplored ecosystem and will hopefully allow us to monitor and perhaps slow the impacts we have on this ecosystem.

The results may not seem surprising, but they shed light on how the avoidance of parasites can shape an entire ecosystem through what some call an «ecology of fear,» says Vanessa Ezenwa, a disease ecologist at the University of Georgia in Athens who was not involved in the research.

The work applies expertise in ecology, hydrology, geography, and the social sciences to decision - making about urban landscapes and the valuation of ecosystem services, among other policy issues.

Meghan Duffy is a disease ecologist whose research focuses on the ecology and evolution of infectious diseases, especially in aquatic ecosystems.

We are driving massive long - term changes in the ecology of our planet, one ecosystem, one community, one species at a time.

By focusing on the whole community ecology of the park — with a particular emphasis on the freshwater, soil, and intertidal zone systems of Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, and Isle au Haut and the organisms found there — she will strive to understand the impact of global phenomena, such as biological invasions and climate change, on the local ecosystem.

The group includes Heinrich Engler, an Old World taxonomist — a name - popper without equal; Frederick Clements, complete with hat, New World champion of the concept of succession, climax and the superorganism (shades of Gaia to come), and Henry Cowles, whose festschrift published 22 years later not only celebrated his work in the field of ecology but was also the vehicle within which the botanist Sir Arthur George Tansley enunciated the term and the concept of the ecosystem: «More than the sum of its parts».

There are two primary ways to achieve «environmental flows» of water necessary to sustain river ecosystems, write Mike Acreman, of the UK's Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, and colleagues in a review published this month in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment: controlled releases like the recent experiment on the Colorado that are designed with specific objectives for ecology and ecosystem services in mind and hands - off policies that minimize or reverse alterations to the natural flow of the river.

His research is focused on marine biodiversity, coral reef ecology and conservation and the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems.

Robert Pringle, an assistant professor in ecology and evolutionary biology at Princeton and co-author of the Science paper, said that the unexpected function of termites in savannas and grasslands suggests that ants, prairie dogs, gophers and other mound - building creatures could also have important roles in ecosystem health.

«We know the collapse of Atlantic cod wreaked havoc on marine ecosystems, but we know very little about the ways most species» ecologies relate to stability.

LCSB director Prof. Dr. Rudi Balling recognizes in ecosystems research an important basis for medical issues: «Paul Wilmes and his group have here corroborated fundamental concepts of ecology with comprehensive numerical data for the first time.

Van Dover is a specialist in the ecology of deep - sea ecosystems that are powered by chemistry rather than sunlight, and Eggleston studies the ecology of organisms that live on the seafloor.

In theory, the disease could be halted by limiting people's access to unaffected areas, but that would be a very unpopular policy and perhaps impossible to implement, he says.The rapid spread of sudden oak death is «such a dynamic system that a lot of our tools in ecology for understanding and predicting patterns are inadequate,» says Rick Ostfeld of the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York.

For more on the emerging field of soundscape ecology, see «Eavesdropping on Ecosystems» in this week's issue of Science, and listen to the Science podcast interview.

These findings call into question studies usually carried out in ecology, in which measurements of ecosystem stability are partly based on their ability to return to normal following a disturbance, rather than on their capacity to resist such a disturbance.

«By linking fisheries to ecology, we can now make informed statements about ecosystem function at a given level of fish biomass.»

«Our take home message is that while it's important for us to continue to research how we can improve the health of managed honey bee colonies for agricultural success, we need to further understand how this cosmopolitan and highly successful species impacts the ecology and evolutionary dynamics of plant and pollinator species in natural ecosystems,» said Hung.

Shank is the leader of the Hadal Ecosystem Studies (HADES) project investigating the major environmental drivers of trench ecology.

Cory Cleveland, a UM professor of terrestrial ecosystem ecology, said that previous research in the wet tropics — where much of global forest productivity occurs — indicates that the increased rainfall that may occur with climate change would cause declines in plant growth.

Interests: Physiological ecology of plants, role of plant species in Arctic ecosystem function, climate change; lead principal investigator at Arctic LTER.

During his post-doctoral years he developed an interest in the contribution of uncultured microbes to the maintenance and function of ecosystems i.e. molecular microbial ecology.

Researchers who focus on the intersection of disease and ecology are narrowing in on a troubling question: are altered ecosystems making pathogens more virulent and likely to spread?

Marine Biologist Tom Iliffe, also from Texas A&M University at Galveston, said: «Providing a model for the basic function of this globally - distributed ecosystem is an important contribution to coastal groundwater ecology and establishes a baseline for evaluating how sea level rise, seaside touristic development and other stressors will impact the viability of these lightless, food - poor systems.»

Environmental regulation of primary productivity in aquatic ecosystems, physiological ecology of phytoplankton, hydrological optics, integrated ocean observatories.

Microbial ecology, phytoplankton physiology and mortality, virology, molecular evolution and ecology, biogeochemistry, ecosystem processes, the structure and function of microbial food webs.

The Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Vienna has gathered an exceptional number of renowned experts over the past years with complementary research areas in microbial ecology, functional genomics and aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem research.

We anticipate awarding 24 internships that will support work in the fields of ecology, evolution, ecosystem sciences or conservation biology, broadly defined, with a priority for projects that focus on one of the following Montana NSF EPSCoR RII Track - 1 research areas:

Tunicate faunal interactions; invasive tunicate ecology; impacts of pest tunicates on shellfish aquaculture; impacts of invasive species dominated tunicate faunas on coastal ecosystems

Plankton and larval ecology, bio-physical interactions, development and use of optical imaging tools for plankton and benthic habitat mapping, development of data products for ecosystems approaches to management, ocean observing systems in polar, temperate and tropical environments, chair ORION - OOI sensors advisory committee

Migration and habitat use behaviors and their influence on population dynamics of coastal fishes, diadromous species, recruitment dynamics, habitat ecology, ecosystem based approaches to fisheries management

The project includes the subjects of human ecology, philosophy, political science, sociology of law, social geography, economic history, physical geography and ecosystems analysis.

Areas of expertise: Invasive species risk assessment, biodiversity conservation, fire ecology, restoration ecology, ecosystem resilience

Students learn about the basic ecology of mangrove ecosystems.

The book is aimed at any graduate students and researchers with a strong interest in plant biodiversity monitoring and assessment, plant community ecology, biodiversity conservation, and the environmental impacts of human activities on ecosystems.

Such models focus on changes in the distribution or extent of species» «climate space», but the broad range of climate - change - related stresses that affect population ecology and physiology and that may have consequences at ecosystem and community levels [12] are not fully reflected.

The Harvard Forest Long - Term Ecological Research site in Petersham, Massachusetts, where Ecosystems Center scientists study the long - term effect of climate warming on forest ecology.

His special interest is in Arctic marine system ecology, C flux in marine ecosystems and physical - biological coupled models of primary production.

At PNNL, her research focuses on the microbial ecology of soils and other terrestrial ecosystems, which includes efforts to understand the carbon cycling processes of microbial communities.

May 2, 2011 The winners of mass extinction: with predators gone, prey thrives In modern ecology, the removal or addition of a predator to an ecosystem can produce dramatic changes in the population of prey species.

Save the Redwoods League supports basic and applied scientific research on the biology and ecology of coast redwood and giant sequoia forest ecosystems.

The Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies is a global leader in ecology and ecosystemEcosystem Studies is a global leader in ecology and ecosystemecosystem science.

One of the most dynamic areas of research into health impacts of ecosystem changes is disease ecology.

The rules of ecology 101 suggest that a reduction in diversity in any ecosystem is problematic.

As capital moves freely, investing in production or in fictitious forms of capitalism, and as speculators, financier capitalists, stock and bond traders, investment bankers, hedge fund mangers, and others help to unleash the forces of capital accumulation globally, and as neo-liberalism with its aggressive pro-market state policies allows this finance capital to restructure itself, to diversify its forms, to expand its accumulation opportunities through the growth of retail, financial and service industries, and enhance its global reach, then it is safe to assume that our ecosystems have been harnessed exploitatively in a system of capitalist commodity production such that we can not talk about capitalism at all without talking about capitalism as a world ecology.

«I think when students can see how science is actually happening all around them in their own environment they are more likely to gain interest and engage,» she says, offering as example her ecology class in which 50 percent of the sessions were taught outside in the forest, «where students can physically interact with their ecosystem.»

educate members of the public about the ecology of marine ecosystems, their value, threats to their health and solutions to those issues.