Sentences with phrase «plant populations so»

A group called Working Dogs for Conservation, use canines to sniff out animal and plant populations so researchers can monitor and preserve them — an eco-variation on drug - and bomb - sniffing dogs.

Not exact matches

So Lusko, his wife and their daughter, Alivia, moved to Whitefish, Montana, and planted a church in nearby Kalispell (population 19,000).

The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»

The world's exploding population has made it profitable for big business to raze forests so it can plant mega crops like soy and oil palm; meanwhile, on a much, much smaller scale, subsistence farmers often clear trees so they can plant crops to feed their families and bring in small amounts of cash.

Cuomo, a Democrat, often has said operating a nuclear plant so close to a major population center poses a potential safety hazard.

So the best way to help declining monarch populations — and to preserve their epic, multi-generational migration — is to plant milkweed.

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a...

Standard forms of CRISPR gene drives, as the tools are called, can make tweaked DNA race through a population so easily that a small number of stray animals or plants could spread it to new territory, predicts a computer simulation released November 16 at bioRxiv.org.

All of the benefits and drawbacks to gene drives are «just so hypothetical right now,» says Allison Snow, a plant population ecologist at Ohio State University.

To determine the true toll, the Three Gorges Dam is taking on animal and plant species, Liu says, long - term data is needed, so that decreases in population totals can be compared with natural species fluctuation.

Chloroplasts evolve slowly, so researchers use next - generation sequencing to look for subtle differences in their genomes to determine how two plants from different populations might be related.

Masatoshi Nei: I wanted to make population genetics useful and practical, so I went into plant breeding.

The general population in northeastern Japan, however, has considerably less access to accurate, non-invasive radiation dose measuring equipment, a troubling situation made more so by Wednesday's announcement by Japan's science ministry that small amounts of cancer - causing radioactive strontium have been detected in soil and plants outside the 30 - kilometer zone around the plant where the government has advised people to stay indoors.

The FRO2 gene is common to all plants, so boosting its expression in food crops or finding variants that thrive in poor soils could be important for increasing crop yields in the face of population growth and global warming's threats to arable land.

As it turns out, despite the initial skepticism about the importance of gene flow, modern empirical and theoretical research using up - to - date molecular and DNA techniques have shown us not only how surprisingly far the flow of genes between distant plant populations can be, but also that the flow of alleles among populations is just as important, if not more so in some cases, as natural selection.

So how much gene flow is there between plant populations?

By munching grasses most other plant - eaters consider not worth the effort, the insect thrives in overgrazed grasslands until its populations swell so much that they move onto crops and pastures, wreaking havoc on local farmers.

Studies done on healthy Whole Food, low fat, plant - based vegans seems lacking, so hard to compare different populations....

Compared to rural African populations eating traditional plant - based diets, white South Africans and black and white Americans not only have more than 50 times the heart disease, 10 times more colon cancer, and more than 50 times more gallstones and appendicitis, but also more than 25 times the rates of so - called pressure diseases — diverticulitis, hemorrhoids, varicose veins, and hiatal hernia.

Weeds often do not hold and protect the soil the way native plants do, so erosion increases and causes sedimentation of streams, harming fish populations and water quality.

It is even not shameful that we tried originally to put the power plants that use this fuel away from population centers so as to minimize damage from the truly dirty emissions.

I'm not sure what the population numbers really are, but that's going to be at least 4,000 plants to the acre -(I'm probably way low)-- so there are 40,000 «hemp» plants out there.

In particular, many of the plant populations predicted to persist in the near future will actually do so under local climate conditions that are already unsuitable for their long - term survival because long live spans and clonal reproduction strategies of many high mountain plants allow them to retard extinction.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72

So it is a surprise to meet someone who calls himself an environmentalist but who asserts that things are getting better, that the rate of human population growth is past its peak, that agriculture is sustainable and pollution is ebbing, that forests are not disappearing, that there is no wholesale destruction of plant and animal species and that even global warming is not as serious as commonly portrayed.

Another UC Davis study showed that these plant / animal corridors planted right next to the vines attract so many bugs, there is at least a 30 % reduction in leaf hopper populations in either direction of the corridor by attracting bugs to the corridor.

So this way, we planted trees in every rue in the city and population took care of them.

All bees pollinate something like 90 % of the world's commercial plants, so the general decline of bee populations is a real worry.

The plants and trees still thrive during the winter months in Ireland, and the population is much lower, so you'll have free reign of the areas you visit.

Be a friend to the honey bee The world's bee population is under threat, so help them thrive in the garden by growing their favourite nectar - rich flowering plants — try broad beans in the veg plot and marjoram and borage in pots or window boxes.