Sentences with phrase «scientists about the ecosystem»

HEAR THIS Projected sound reverberating through a kelp bed can tell scientists about the ecosystem, a new analysis shows.

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Synthesizing about 1000 scientific studies and reports, the scientists were now able to give a balanced report on the changes in all 14 ecosystem functions, including gas and climate regulation, water regulation and supply, moderation of extreme events, provision of food and raw materials, as well as medicinal resources.

Just about every naturally occurring element churns through the earth's oceans, yet scientists have only a glimmer of understanding of how these chemicals influence marine ecosystems.

Scientists don't know a lot about where microplastics stick around in open water ecosystems.

«Consistently across all biomes, we found that soil respiration increased with soil temperature up to about 25 ° C (77 ° F),» said Joanna Carey, a postdoctoral scientist in the Marine Biological Laboratory Ecosystems Center in Woods Hole, Mass., and the lead scientist on the study.

Setting aside the labels of «good» and «bad» — which are inescapably human judgments — Burdick sought to view invasive species with more objectivity and to explore what they have taught scientists about how ecosystems work.

«We compared many different coastal ecosystems and have made a clear case for including coastal wetlands in discussions about greenhouse gas mitigation,» said Ariana Sutton - Grier, an assistant research scientist at UMD's Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center and a co-lead author of the research paper.

Sharks are at the top of the ocean food chain, Meyer noted, making them an important part of the marine ecosystem, and knowing more about these fish helps scientists better understand the flow of energy through the ocean.

The invaders» unchecked proliferation has forest and soil scientists worried about their future impact on forest ecosystems.

«There is at present too little known about how marine ecosystems function in the Arctic, let alone how they will respond to the dramatic changes in progress, to prescribe safe harvest levels for living marine resources in the U.S. Arctic,» 43 marine scientists said in a letter to the Council chair.

As the planet faces the dawn of a sixth mass extinction, scientists are searching for clues about the uncertain road ahead by exploring how ancient ecosystems collapsed and bounced back from traumatic upheavals.

If mesopelagic animals convey information through sound, learning more about who is communicating and what they're communicating about could change scientists» understanding of how the ecosystem fits together, Baumann - Pickering said.

As a result, scientists have very little information about their role in early ecosystems.

There is still a lot that we don't know about ecosystems, according to De Leo, especially since oceans and still largely «unknown and mysterious environments» for scientists.

Nor do scientists have a good handle on how much microbial biomass exists in the ocean crust — an ecosystem that according to some estimates covers about 60 % of Earth's surface.

These powerful narratives of failure to control are reinforced by the fact that there is no clear consensus among scientists about the uncertainties raised by the use of genomic technologies in our ecosystems.

The characterization of viral consortia in healthy, diseased, and different life stages of corals will provide scientists clues about the roles that viruses play in the establishment, health, and resilience of these critical ecosystem engineers.

An HD slow - motion video of a Great White attacking its prey will rope students in, as will hearing scientists talk about this animal's important place in the ecosystem.

The data, posted at the aquarium's Web site, is part of a fifteen - year monitoring study to track changes in near - shore ecosystems that will inform scientists and fuel policy makers as they make decisions about the land.

Think about the discrepancies in how students and ecosystem scientists work, Kamarainen says.

As Gary traveled the world as a photojournalist, he often photographed and wrote about scientists unlocking mysteries of the natural world and he began seeing a pattern: across disciplines, scientists were realizing that Earth's climate was changing and affecting the organisms and ecosystems that they were studying.

If sceptics were taken more seriously, if there was a debate... if there was a political, or academic culture which accepted debate... Cardiff wouldn't produce such rank pseudo-science, and social scientists in Nottingham could be more confident about the definition of «space in the ecosystem of climate change discourse», but probably would chose his words — and his coordinates — more carefully.

Willis, what about this bet: WUWT / Anthony Watts will continue to mock all scientists and / or analyses that are concerned for the long - term stability of the planetary ecosystem.

Climate scientists Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth also took issue with Koonin's assertion about the impact of human activity, saying, Warming is well beyond natural climate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruptions.

Dana: «Climate scientists Michael Oppenheimer and Kevin Trenberth also took issue with Koonin's assertion about the impact of human activity, saying, Warming is well beyond natural climate variability and projected rates of change are potentially faster than ecosystems, farmers and societies can adapt to without major disruptions.

A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world's biggest iceberg, fighting huge waves and the encroaching Antarctic winter, in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions.The scientists, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.In July last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved away, forming a huge iceberg - A68 - which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time.

NYSERDA will also require successful proposers to coordinate with regional environmental scientists to collect information that could be useful in understanding more about ecosystem function, timing and relative density of wildlife in the area, or ambient underwater noise.

The term «enforcers of the climate consensus» is a bitter and resentful way to refer to competent and productive climate scientists, in particular those who care enough about the current and future impact of anthropogenic climate change on Earth's ecosystems and on humanity.

The resulting map has the potential to inform scientists about the structure of forest ecosystems in different regions, and it can be used to improve predictions about carbon storage and biodiversity around the world.

The conclusions are in from a series of scientific surveys of the Great Barrier Reef bleaching event — an environmental assault on the largest coral ecosystem on Earth — and scientists aren't holding back about how devastating they find them.

, in which lessons on the ravaging of ecosystems also offer plenty of opportunities to practice silent e, to the ultra-sophisticated How We Know What We Know About Our Changing Climate: Scientists and Kids Explore Global Warming, by foremost environmental author Lynne Cherry, in which middle school readers are cast as coprincipal investigators.

«Leakage is always a big issue when you are talking about individual REDD projects rather than a national REDD scheme,» warns Sandra Brown, Director and Chief Scientist at Winrock International's Ecosystems Services Unit.

Integrating past ecological information in ecosystem management requires a research framework linking a diverse collection of those who need information about past fires — policy makers, nonprofit workers, resource managers, and emergency responders, to name a few — with scientists.

Since 1968, government and university scientists have used its 58 small lakes to test hypotheses about freshwater ecosystems.

And in East Africa, scientists found that a decline in wildebeest populations in the Serengeti - Mara grassland - savanna system decades ago allowed organic matter to accumulate, which eventually led to about 80 percent of the ecosystem to burn annually, releasing carbon from the plants and the soil, before populations recovered in recent years.

As tragic as the images of dead seabirds are, scientists studying the environmental consequences of the Gulf spill are most concerned about the effects on the ecosystem that could take years to begin showing up.

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