Sentences with phrase «plant ecologists who»

I am a plant ecologist who studies carbon and nitrogen cycling and I have been yearning for a site / blog this.

Pierre Dansereau, French Canadian plant ecologist who was a pioneer in the study of the dynamics of forests and who attempted to extend ecological concepts to the modern human environment.

Not exact matches

«In these environments that are dominated by marine plants, photosynthesis and respiration cause large differences in CO2 concentrations and the addition of anthropogenic carbon make these day - to - night differences even larger than they would be without that extra carbon,» said George Waldbusser, an Oregon State marine ecologist and co-author on the study, who serves as Pacella's Ph.D. adviser.

Fernando Valladares, a plant ecologist at the CSIC National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid, who leads a 20 - strong team, expects that «at least half» of his staff «will go within a year, for sure.»

But it is unclear how much residual radioactive contamination is still entering the sea from leaks around the Fukushima plant, says Scott Fowler, a marine ecologist at Stony Brook University in New York who has been involved in previous assessments of contamination levels in the ocean near Fukushima.

Ecologists who study plant defenses have long predicted that while mature leaves can rely on physical toughness to thwart hungry insects and other animals, tender young leaves need something extra to protect themselves.

But the new study strongly supports the idea that plants play an important role in triggering the rainy season, says Scott Saleska, an ecologist at the University of Arizona in Tucson, who was not involved with the work.

Planting a large - scale seaweed farm would likely come up against stiff opposition from those who are not used to seaweed farms in their backyards, agreed Mike Graham, an ecologist specializing in seaweed at the California State University - associated Moss Landing Marine Laboratories.

Ecologists who study flowering plants have long believed that flowers evolved with particular sets of characteristics — unique combinations of colors, shapes, and orientations, for example — as a means of attracting specific pollinators.

«These are direct pipelines from plant to plant, like a telephone wire,» says Suzanne Simard, a forest ecologist at the University of British Columbia who studies mycorrhizal networks.

That's a little worrisome, says Milena Holmgren, a plant ecologist at Wageningen University and Research Centre in the Netherlands, who was not involved in the research.

The paper is «solid, exciting research,» says ecologist Chris Field of Carnegie Institution for Science in Palo Alto, California, who notes that various models have looked at ways different factors might affect future plant growth.

Georg Grabherr, a plant ecologist at the University of Vienna in Austria who specializes in alpine plants, hadn't expected the species to move so quickly over the decades.

The government is counting its chickens before they are hatched, says Fernando Valladares, a plant ecologist at the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Madrid who is president of the Spanish Association for Terrestrial Ecology and who, with other scientists, critically analyzed the draft strategy.

«This is the first paper that really makes a link between lower plant quality and enhanced performance,» says Spencer Behmer, a physiological ecologist at Texas A&M University in College Station, who was not part of the study.

«Previous studies at a few sites had shown that large trees suffer more than small trees during and after droughts, and our theory suggested this should be a globally consistent pattern, but this project was the first to test this hypothesis globally,» said Los Alamos National Laboratory's Nate McDowell, a renowned forest ecologist and plant physiologist who coauthored a paper in the journal Nature Plants highlighting this research.

«The idea that changes in plant chemistry and therefore plant resistance may change the probability of cannibalism is very original,» says Andre Kessler, a chemical ecologist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, who did not participate in the study.

«We've known for a long time that herbivores do eat other insects, but so far people studying herbivory have kind of ignored that because it's a lot easier to put herbivores in a neat bin in which they only eat plants,» says Michigan State University ecologist William Wetzel, who did not participate in the study.

Along with a home - inspection duo, a science writer, and some enterprising scientists at Princeton University, we dig into the work of evolutionary ecologist Monica Gagliano, who turns our brain - centered worldview on its head through a series of clever experiments that show plants doing things we never would've imagined.

The park is very popular with tropical ecologist, eco-tourists, and generally outdoorsy people alike who all share a love the abundance of plant and wildlife.

Empirically - oriented ecologists returned to the work of scientists like Henry Gleason who in 1917 described «each association of plants and animals as unique, ephemeral, spontaneous, idiosyncratic, extemporaneous, and a law unto itself.»