Sentences with phrase «plant ecology»

Plant ecology refers to the study of how plants interact with their environment, including other plants, animals, and abiotic factors like soil and climate. It helps scientists understand how plants grow, adapt to their surroundings, and thrive in different habitats. Full definition
By altering the balance of native plants in favor of a higher fraction of invasive plants, deer change forest plant ecology.
Education: Graduate degree in plant ecology from University of Missouri - Columbia; Bachelor's degree in horticulture and business from the University of Arkansas — Fayetteville
degree in botany from the University of Nottingham and followed it with a master's degree in plant ecology from the University of Leicester.
«Although it is known that herbivory and competition are relevant for plant establishment, the response of many plants to those factors is rarely measured due to the large amount of work,» comments Markus Fischer, professor of plant ecology at the University of Bern.
In the summer of 2012, two undergraduate students tackled a problem that plant ecology experts had overlooked for 30 years.
According to David Mortensen, professor of weed and applied plant ecology, Penn State, synthetic - auxin herbicides are usually used early in the growing season, but with the new transgenic crop varieties coming on the market, these herbicides will be used later when temperatures are warmer and more plant species are leafed out.
Yet Emilie Muller wants to go further than simply modelling the wastewater treatment plant ecology: «We want to understand what factors determine the species composition and accordingly the balance in the ecosystem.»
«Below - ground plant ecology has been understudied, limited by a paucity of data,» he said.
1986 Olle E. Bjorkman for his important contributions to plant physiology and, particularly, to the area of physiological plant ecology
The relevance of the KTC system is that the temperature and precipitation criteria are based on plant ecology.
Our group utilizes field trips to wetlands (salt marshes, fresh marshes, bogs, fens, and swamps) to combine the study of modern plant ecology with retrieval of long sediment cores.
It all started in 1990 as a student at the University of Nairobi undertaking my masters of science studies in plant ecology
Jacquelyn Gill researches paleoecology and plant ecology — in other words, she studies the history of the global climate over millions of years — at the University of Maine.
I enrolled in a plant ecology class, tromped around happily for two months looking at leaf bud scars on leafless trees and evergreen shrubs and then wham March and April hit.
Current approaches to ecological agriculture such as integrated pest management, integrated plant nutrition systems and conservation tillage, consider only one aspect of the farming system components: pest ecology, plant ecology and soil ecology, respectively.
I have just finished my Master's degree in plant ecology and I am currently searching for jobs.
His research focuses on computational and mathematical ecology, with applications to plant ecology, conservation biology, natural resource management, and landscape ecology.
I hold expertise in all the topics that come under Early botany, Early modern botany, Modern botany, Scope and importance of plant studies, Human nutrition, Plant biochemistry, Medicine and materials, Plant ecology, Plants, climate and environmental change, Genetics, Molecular genetics, Epigenetics, Plant evolution, Plant physiology, Plant hormones, Plant anatomy and morphology, Systematic botany, etc..
The plant ecology and / or agriculture discussions would have been a good place to do so, given the complexities / uncertainties involved.
Michaels holds A.B. and S.M. degrees in biological sciences and plant ecology and a Ph.D. in ecological climatology.
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