Sentences with phrase «said aquatic ecologist»

Those sturgeon still plying the Yangtze today might end up being the last of their kind: «the living dead,» says aquatic ecologist David Dudgeon of the University of Hong Kong.

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The bay's aquatic vegetation, including seagrasses and freshwater grasses, is an important part of coastal ecosystems, says study coauthor Jonathan Lefcheck, a marine ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay, Maine.

«The dams are blocking the fish,» says Michael Goulding, a Wildlife Conservation Society aquatic ecologist in Gainesville, Florida, who has been studying the dorado since the 1970s.

An increase in the synchrony of the climate could expose marine and terrestrial organisms to higher risks of extinction, said study co-author Ivan Arismendi, an aquatic ecologist and assistant professor at Oregon State University.

«It has fantastic utility because so many aquatic cave habitats are unavailable to us,» says Rick Olson, an ecologist at Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky who was not involved with the work.

«And that's where we drew the line,» says Muhlfeld, an aquatic research ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey and the University of Montana.

Jef Huisman, an aquatic microbiology professor and theoretical ecologist at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, said that the Princeton research shows that recently proposed early - warning signals for the desertification of arid ecosystems can be too simple, and possibly result in projections of future climate change that do not account for the complexity of nature.

«The lakes in the Boulder Junction area have had long - term monitoring from the University of Wisconsin and the University of Notre Dame, so we had an existing gradient of lakes where this invasive crayfish had never been observed to lakes where we know rusty crayfish are abundant,» says U of I aquatic ecologist Eric Larson.

The study is the first to demonstrate this kind of teleconnection between the sea floor, subsea floor and microbial processes in the upper ocean, said Andy Juhl, an aquatic ecologist at Lamont and coauthor.

«I am stunned by the extent of the annual mass wildebeest drownings and their large contribution of [carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus] to the energy budget of the Mara River,» says Gary Lamberti, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Norte Dame in South Bend, Indiana.

«It's terrible news,» says ecologist Walter Dodds of Kansas State University in Manhattan, who championed STREON, NEON's now - canceled aquatic experimentation component.

Beaver ponds can indeed be large sources of potent planet - warming greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide, says Jennifer Edmonds, an aquatic ecologist at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

Aquatic ecologist says dams are boxing in fish — indicators of environmental health — causing them to disappear from Kansas