Sentences with phrase «on ecosystem ecology»

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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.

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

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.

Founded in 1925, it has long been a national leader in fisheries, environmental chemistry and toxicology, and ecosystem science and restoration ecology with a focus on whole ecosystem management and restoration.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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

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 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.

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.

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

Middle School Project — Fading Footprints: This project is a 12 - week interdisciplinary ecology unit centered on the guiding question, How does diversity strengthen an ecosystem?

Friend talked about what animals they saw in what ecosystem and why those animals might be there, tying that discussion to learning objectives about ecology, migration patterns, and so on.

Throughout the school year, students in grades K — 6 come to Crissy Field for inquiry - based learning programs that explore wildlife habitats, coastal ecosystems, biodiversity, archaeology, botany, shorebirds, and hands - on ecology.

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

First launched in 2006, the Urban Field Station provides a location for this long - term research partnership promoting applied science on urban ecology, conservation, stewardship, and ecological literacy to support ecosystem management and human well - being.

Over the past fifty years, consumerism across the world has fuelled consumption on an unprecedented scale, threatening to deplete the earth's resources and destroy the interdependent ecosystems and ecologies essential to sustain life.

I've attended hundreds of classes on ecology, scat identification, tracking wildlife, understanding ecosystems and edges, exploring this country's many wildlife refuges, learning Native American History and how our indigenous cultures relate to nature and earth through the heart.

Second, the ecosystem impacts of increased fire suppression would be substantial as many ecosystems depend on large fires, even severe fire patches to maintain ecosystem health (based on numerous fire ecology studies globally).

This story has been adapted from a four - part series on Ecosystem Marketplace examining the interplay between economy and ecology in Kenya's Lake Naivasha Watershed.

Steven Gaines's research focuses on marine ecology and conservation, sustainable fisheries, the design of marine reserves, and the impact of climate change on ocean ecosystems.

Steve Gaines's research focuses on marine ecology and conservation, sustainable fisheries, the design of marine reserves, and the impact of climate change on ocean ecosystems.

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.

Professor Gaines's research focuses on marine ecology and conservation, sustainable fisheries, the design of marine reserves, and the impact of climate change on ocean ecosystems.

If these ideas hold water then it will be necessary to revisit long - cherished concepts in marine ecology that suggest that removal of higher order predators would have a beneficial effect on ecosystem productivity.

In addition, ocean acidification is co-occurring with other drivers of environmental change (including warming, eutrophication, hypoxia, eutrophication, pollution [12]-RRB-, yet the interactive effects and relative importance of multiple stressors on species physiology, life history and ecology, as well as species — environment interactions and ecosystem function remain poorly understood [13 — 17].