Sentences with phrase «population biologist»
A population biologist is a scientist who studies and analyzes living organisms in groups or populations. They focus on how the size, distribution, and behavior of a population can change over time and how it interacts with its environment. Full definition
The results may apply to more than locusts, says population biologist Alan Hastings of University of California, Davis.
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«The theory had come up to a sort of quandary,» says population biologist Alan Hastings of the University of California (UC), Davis.
To see whether genetic diversity plays a role in extinction, a team led by population biologists Ilik Saccheri and Ilkka Hanski of the University of Helsinki in 1996 collected adult females from 42 populations and analyzed seven of their enzymes and one genomic DNA section for variants.
I'm absolutely convinced of that,» says University of California, Santa Cruz, population biologist Dan Doak.
University of Cambridge population biologist Andrea Manica examined data from more than 4,600 male and 1,500 female skulls — all less than 2,000 years old — from academic collections across the globe, each of which was measured for 37 different structural characteristics.
So botanists, soil chemists, population biologists, and others have recently banded together to form a new interdisciplinary field: road ecology.
He follows Walport, who is a former director of the Wellcome Trust, and John Beddington, a population biologist now at the Oxford Martin School and the University of Oxford, UK.
You have to be a population biologist, a botanist, an ecologist, a biophysicist, a biochemist, a microbiologist, a molecular biologist, a bioengineer, a geneticist, an evolutionary biologist, a developmental biologist, a zoologist, an anatomist, a pathologist, a virologist, an ichthyologist, a herpetologist, an ornithologist, a paleontologist, an exobiologist, or you - get - the - gist.
William Sutherland, a population biologist at the University of East Anglia, has shown that the places on Earth with the most biodiversity are the most linguistically diverse as well and that languages are even more at risk for extinction than are birds or mammals.
«The work clearly shows that, despite their size, small rodents play a much larger role in seed dispersal for some tree species than previously recognized,» says Joshua Plotkin, a population biologist at the University of Pennsylvania who mathematically models evolutionary and ecological questions.
«They've actually been able to dig down into the genome and find out a little bit more about [parallel evolution],» says Tim Coulson, a population biologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
Robert F. Rockwell, a population biologist at the museum and City College of New York with whom Gormezano has collaborated in the Hudson Bay bear study, provided this reaction:
What the population biologists call «die backs» were surely a common occurrence in human evolution.