Sentences with phrase «population dynamics of»

Dr. Hyatt heads the Salmon in Regional Ecosystems Program at DFO's Pacific Biological Station in Nanaimo where his research focus includes: (1) the status of salmon populations in the Pacific Region, (2) climate effects on the life history and population dynamics of salmon, and (3) the development of new «tools» to support fisheries management.
I was fortunate to have prof. Olavi Kalela (1908 - 1974) as the supervisor of my master's thesis which concerned the effects of weather and climate on population dynamics of northern bird species.
We have good scientific evidence to support your view that the population dynamics of the human species is essentially similar to, not different from, the population dynamics of other species.
This includes for example, the effects of weather / climate on the population dynamics of rapidly reproducing, cold - blooded organisms, and the epidemiology of disease spread (and interesting textbook cases in genetics and evolution as well).
According to their research, the dynamics of human population numbers are essentially similar to, not different from, the population dynamics of other species.
Every year, new components of the research are added while the overall goal of understanding the natural history and population dynamics of these large, migratory rays remains the primary goal.
Feeding ecology and population dynamics of the feral cat (Felis catus) in relation to the availability of prey in central - eastern New South Wales.
MacLean, M.M., et al., «The usefulness of sensitivity analysis for predicting the effects of cat predation on the population dynamics of their avian prey.»
Procedure: Data were analyzed with a mathematical Ricker model to describe population dynamics of the feral cats and modifications to the dynamics that occurred as a result of the TNR programs.
In this Review, we discuss recent advances in understanding the molecular determinants of influenza virus immune escape, sources of evolutionary selection pressure, population dynamics of influenza viruses and prospects for better influenza virus control.
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
Fish behavior and population dynamics, anadromous fish ecology, especially inter-estuary migration and population dynamics of sturgeon and salmon.Evaluation of ocean energy impacts on fish and fish populations.
She is broadly interested in using computational techniques to model the in - host population dynamics of viral infections, and is particularly interested in modeling the interactions between Human Immunodeficiency Virus and the immune system.
Recruitment and population dynamics of aquatic animals, including feeding and bio-physical interactions.
His research and that of his colleagues seeks to clarify the causal patterns behind these losses, most recently by studying population dynamics of fossil species using ancient DNA methods.
Our findings attest to the value of a time ‐ series approach, as the shifts in population dynamics of clones harboring different gene fragments would not have been discovered if we had only obtained endpoint data.
The researchers are investigating the manipulation of light in plasmonic nanostructures using the dephasing and population dynamics of electron - hole - pairs in metal coated, core - shell semiconductor nanowires.
His research specialty is environmental microbiology, focusing on the genetic diversity and population dynamics of microorganisms in their natural environments.
«We show that interspecific mating occurred at all sampled sites at levels high enough to be considered a probable driving force in the population dynamics of the two species,» she said.
Malin Pinsky, an ecologist at Rutgers University who studies population dynamics of coastal marine species and who was not involved in the research, described the study as significant because of its unusually large scope, as well as its focus on different fish life stages.
Conducting the first large - scale, genome - wide analyses of ancient human remains from the Near East, an international team led by Harvard Medical School has illuminated the genetic identities and population dynamics of the world's first farmers.
«Long - term data of the population dynamics of wildlife are lacking, but are indispensable for estimating the feasibility of wildlife utilisation.»
Building on his field studies of African herbivores, Owen - Smith develops a new modeling approach for studying the population dynamics of large mammals.
An international team led by anthropologist Dr. Michaela Harbeck from the Bavarian State Collection for Anthropology and Palaeoanatomy (SAPM) and population geneticist Professor Joachim Burger of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) has now performed the first genomic analysis of populations that lived on the former territory of the Roman Empire in Bavaria, Germany, from around 500 AD and provided the first direct look at the complex population dynamics of what has popularly been known as the Migration Period, or «Völkerwanderung» in German.

Not exact matches

In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.
But with China's nearly 1.4 billion population with 25 percent of the population (about 350 million) comfortable with mobile payments, the dynamics of the crowdfunding market could change dramatically as the trend matures.
These changes in the domestic dynamics are a result of demographic shifts that occurred as the population began to age.
The author's theory that christians, who make up, he says, a «sizable» percentage (10 %) of the population, somehow changes the dynamics of this (Egypt) predominantly muslim nation and region is ludicrous.
The dynamics of filmmaking itself has kept the population entertained.
I believe this is much different from popular press magazines advising us as what you're both doing is explaining human development and evolved caregiving practices (which in people who understand healthy relationship dynamics is intuitive and based on common sense, but is not the majority of our population) to people struggling to figure out how to make their primary love relationships work so they don't end in divorce, split families, or unattached / needy people.
Day - to - day dynamics of experience — cortisol associations in a population - based sample of older adults.
The field study is to consider the population dynamics in the respective regions, the geographical or physical features of the areas, their economic viability, as well as ethnic and community interests.
This visit led to very enjoyable and productive collaborations on synchrony in population dynamics and the ecology and evolution of influenza.
This provides a strategy to obtain a diversity of waveforms with multiple time scales out of the nonlinear interaction of the neural populations and their intrinsic dynamics.
One aspect of EPP / MSI's Environmental Entrepreneurship Program is a two - part summer course on fish population dynamics and stock assessment.
A new series of studies reveals three distinct ways in which virus populations in the male genital tract can arise, paving the way for more refined research into virus dynamics at this crucial transmission site.
He adds: «Our findings are important for human genetics, archaeology and anthropology, and it will be interesting to see what similar approaches can tell us about the post glacial population dynamics in other parts of Europe and the rest of the world.»
«Until we get population dynamics integrated into our understanding of climate change and our responses to it, both will be ineffective,» he says.
Research published in PLOS Computational Biology presents a model to understand the actions of humans and the dynamics of pest populations.
There's also a more recent foray into the study of complex biological systems, from the population - wide dynamics of a disease outbreak to the way human bodies align their functions to a biological clock.
The institute's research taps into the dynamics of tree regeneration; forest tree eco-physiology and population genetics; agroforestry system management and modelling.
Yet body mass, an important component of the physiological state of an organism, can affect key life - history traits such as survival, chick mass and breeding success and population dynamics.
Seed predation is an important ecological process that can affect the reproductive success of individual plants, the dynamics of plant populations, and the evolution of defensive dispersal mechanisms and plant morphological traits.
Frey and his colleagues made use of mathematical models to analyze the complex interplay between ecological factors and population dynamics, and were able to demonstrate that populations can indeed respond in a coordinated fashion to chemical information even when the signal molecules are generated by only a subset of the cells.
She stressed the value of long - term data in understanding the dynamics of the population.
But Glaum and Kessler reached a different conclusion when they included herbivore - induced pollinator limitation (HIPL) in their model, which allowed them to examine broader, more indirect effects of herbivory on plant population persistence and community dynamics.
We started by trying to understand the dynamics of these populations and this service.
Predictive models suggest the ongoing Zika epidemic may run out of steam after two or three more seasons, but these models do not consider how urban slums and their highly mobile populations affect the disease's dynamics, according to the study.
«The population dynamics seem to be similar to those of the transients in the Pacific,» said Stevens.
Understanding population dynamics is crucial for the conservation of long - lived species like albatrosses, but collecting data on albatrosses before they reach adulthood and begin to breed is challenging.
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