Sentences with phrase «on ecological effects»

And that doesn't even touch on the ecological effects [if the oil does come ashore].»

Sections on the ecological effects of global warming and its impact on human health were removed.

I recently completed a global review on the ecological effects of providing resource subsidies to predators.

The continuing study will yield useful information on ecological effects, although not necessarily on fire risk, as it will not study wildfire directly, according to forest scientist Philip Omi of Colorado State University in Fort Collins.

The Trump Administration budget would eliminate funding for research on ecological effects of unconventional oil and gas development.

Not exact matches

But GM crops have been around for only about 15 years, and that is not long enough to fully assess their effect on complex biological and ecological systems.

After hearing evidence and considering submissions for 180 days, the Board arrived on 209 conditions it deemed necessary to mitigate the risks and adverse socio - ecological effects associated with the pipeline and its associated infrastructure to ensure the project is in the public interest.

Contraceptives obviously have a negative effect on the delicate ecological system of a woman's fertility.

It would be unusual to hear anything in these churches so morally daring as certain songs of the Grammy - Award winning Indigo Girls, or anything so ironically and astutely probing as a song on ecological spirituality by James Taylor («Gaia,» from Hourglass), or music as alert to alternative spiritualities — African and South - American — as Paul Simon's Graceland and The Rhythm of the Saints or as achingly yearning in overall effect as k. d. lang's «Constant Craving» (Ingénue) or U2's «I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For» (Joshua Tree).

It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than the use of inputs with adverse effects.

It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and cycles adapted to local conditions, rather thanthe use of inputs with adverse effects.

The future of food — Scenarios and the effect on natural resource use in agriculture in 2050 Ecological Economics.

It relies on ecological processes, biodiversity and nutrients, energy and water cycles adapted to local conditions, rather than on the use of external inputs with adverse effects.

«In Växjö, the greenest city in Europe, we strive to produce meals with a lower effect on the environment in municipal kitchens by purchasing locally produced and ecological foodstuffs, reduce waste, increase the proportion of vegetables and adapt menus to the season.»

Although with «cultural breastfeeding» there may be no effects on a mother's fertility whatsoever, when a mother and infant participate in the human biological norm or «ecological breastfeeding,» women remain in lactational amenorrhea (absence of periods due to unrestricted breastfeeding and constant proximity) and babies are spaced naturally.

Walker, Milwaukee County executive, said the Wisconsin Department of Transportation has not held a meeting on the project's ecological effects since 2001.

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.

«This study gives us a whole other avenue to understand the ecological effects of wolves on landscapes and animal communities,» said Ripple.

An international team of scientists investigating the effects of six planned or potential Andean dams on the Amazon river system has found that major negative ecological impacts can be expected both above the dams and throughout the lowland floodplains and the Amazon Delta, according to WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia, and other groups.

This sample of recent environmental films includes looks at the ecological effects of roads and top predators, the impact of climate change on a native village in the Arctic, a search for seeds of wild relatives of staple foods, and the fate of solar panels from Jimmy Carter's White House.

«If I as a university professor approached my institutional review board and said I want to experiment on entire populations by introducing wavelengths of light most associated with harmful biological and ecological effects, they would laugh me out the door, down the street and out of my office,» Longcore says.

If the results of research described Friday at the winter meeting of the British Ecological Society are any indication, this foray will have disastrous effects on the local aquatic species.

by Plant - life) points out that these alien plants are «bound to have an ecological and genetic effect on the flora (and vegetation) of this country», although any deleterious effects on native plants are not yet clear.

Dr. Bachhuber is author of an ecological study finding a protective effect of medical marijuana regulation on opioid overdose mortality,

A new article addresses the ecological and ethical challenges stemming from the question of what effects the rapidly growing field of synthetic biology will have on the conservation of nature.

However, because it remains heavily contaminated by radiation, the region represents an accidental ecological experiment to study the effects of ionizing radiation on wild animals.

At the close of the Fourth International Polar Year, we take stock of the ecological consequences of recent climate change in the Arctic, focusing on effects at population, community, and ecosystem scales.

The certainty of the forecasts is particularly important as warming leads to shifts from temperate to subtropical drylands, which leads to changes in precipitation and soil moisture, which in turn has profound effects on ecological services, provided to humanity, including the viability of certain temperate agricultural systems.

A symposium focusing on climate's effects on predators — causing cascading effects on whole ecosystems — will take place on Tuesday, August 12th during the Ecological Society of America's 99th Annual Meeting, held this year in Sacramento, California.

Those die - offs, which occurred about 252 million years ago, killed off more than 90 % of all species on Earth, and their ecological effects were long - lasting.

Competitor species can have evolutionary effects on each other that result in ecological character displacement; that is, divergence in resource - exploiting traits such as jaws and beaks.

«Microbiologists have rarely taken into account fluid flow as an ecological parameter, whereas physicists have just recently started to pay attention to microbes,» he says, adding: «The ability to directly watch microbes under the controlled flow conditions afforded by microfluidic technology — which is only about 15 years old — has made all the difference in allowing us to discover and understand this effect of flow on microbes.»

To cut down on ill effects, the researchers suggest using less damaging lighting — like avoiding blue lighting, which penetrates deeper in seawater — to minimize ecological impacts, and establishing «marine dark sky parks,» similar to what the International Dark - Sky Association has done for terrestrial parks.

Due to lingering radiation from the 1986 meltdown of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, humans aren't allowed to live there — but the region has become an accidental ecological testing ground for scientists interested in studying the effects of radiation on wild animals.

The study of island populations is particularly valuable for detecting the effects of predators on local prey species, because of the relatively closed nature of island ecological systems (Blackburn et al., 2004; Swadling, 2010).

Given the rapid spread of coastal pollution, field studies on their multi-faceted effects on ecological processes in coral reefs deserve a high priority.

Furthermore, only recently have researchers been able to consider both the ecological relationships among krill predators (e.g., niche overlap) and the potential effects of climate change on those relationships, specifically as they relate to the availability of their krill prey [14].

This focus on the potential ecological effects from pharmaceuticals largely began as a result of a growing number of technical papers published from the late 1990s until the present that have reported the detection of low levels of pharmaceuticals in wastewater treatment plant effluent, manufacturing plant effluent and surface water and, to a more limited extent, groundwater, drinking water, soils, and sediment.

Consequently, in the past 20 years his research has evolved from an early focus on prioritizing the effects that humans have on coral reefs and the role that marine protected areas play in conserving biological diversity and ecological processes, to developing theoretical and simulation models of coral reefs that will help predict and suggest alternatives to reduce detrimental effects, to developing practical means to restore degraded reefs through manipulation of the food web and management.

Dr Green is the lead author on a paper just published in Environmental Science and Technology, which describes the worrying ecological effects of discarded plastic carrier bags.

I've investigated the consequences of human activities on ecological communities and processes — from the effects of cleaning habits on the bacterial diversity in our homes to the consequences of land - use change on stream ecosystem function.

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.

Scientists are discovering that the ecological impacts of coral decline can have detrimental effects on fish communities.

Biography: Sue - Ann's research focuses on key ecological effects of global change, particularly ocean acidification, on marine organisms including invertebrates and fishes.

«The positive ecological correlations between national intakes of total fat and saturated fatty acids and cardiovascular mortality found in earlier studies were absent or negative in the larger, more recent studies,» the authors wrote, concluding that «the harmful effect of dietary saturated fatty acids and the protective effect of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease are questioned.»

To avoid an ecological disaster that we, as a global society are heading towards, requires a «civilization metamorphosis,» one that reinvents the relationships between production and consumption, and their effects on the ecosystems of nature.

These cats are incredibly independent and can have a drastic ecological impacts on the wildlife surrounding their home ranges as they are not only skilled hunters, but they often carry diseases that can have a detrimental effects on other animals.

To combat the ecological effect that time has eroded on this Indian Ocean surf spot since the film release, top - notch artificial reefs are being introduced to produce an awesome barrelling wave.

Richart firmly believes we can reverse the adverse effects our modern lifestyle is having on the Earth's ecological balance.

Frazier will present «Flint is Family (2016 - 2017), a series of works exploring the water crisis in Flint, Michigan and the effects on its residents during one of the most devastating man - made ecological disasters in U.S history.