Sentences with phrase «real ecosystem»

But while that's a nice idea on paper, no one has shown that it is possible in real ecosystems.

In real ecosystems, creatures can move from one part of their environment to another.

Sagar Sahasrabudhe and Adilson Motter of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, have shown that in several model food webs, as well as in two webs modeled with data derived from real ecosystems — the Chesapeake Bay off Maryland and Virginia and the Coachella Valley in Southern California — removing or partially suppressing one or more species at key time points after one member has gone extinct saves other members of the web from local extinction.

Their models based on such feedbacks produced a wide range of patterns, ranging from spots to stripes to labyrinths and holes, corresponding to patterns seen in a range of real ecosystems.

«We want to understand how pathogens in real ecosystems are transmitted,» explains Goldberg, who also serves as associate director for research at the UW's Global Health Institute.

But a real ecosystem is about more than just a collection of places.

Despite the artificially imposed boundaries, «nobody doubts that Kruger is a real ecosystem, with real ecosystem processes in it,» Packer says.

However, the results will only be accurate if the real ecosystem is well represented by the model.

Unlike other inquiry - or problem - based lessons that start by telling students what to focus on, «EcoMUVE invites students to explore, as in a real ecosystem, where eventually they find a puzzle to investigate,» Grotzer says.

Like a real ecosystem, Horizon: Zero Dawn is brilliantly balanced.

Angel networks like that run by ClearlySo and big industry conferences for social investment like SOCAP held in San Francisco in September show that a real ecosystem is developing around this both in the US and Europe.