Sentences with phrase «studies ecology and evolutionary biology»
Joy Ward, Ph.D., studies ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas, Lawrence.
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His work focuses on applying principles of evolutionary biology and ecology to the study of cancer.
«So many bacteria are now so resistant to antibiotics,» said Pamela Yeh, the study's senior author and a UCLA assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology.
That fact is scientifically supported and not controversial among scientists who study climate from a broad range of disciplines, including geology, geophysics, geography, paleoclimatology, glaciology, hydrology, ecology, evolutionary biology, environmental studies and oceanography.
In a new study on the Pacific Coast, Nyssa Silbiger, former UCI postdoctoral researcher, and Cascade Sorte, assistant professor of ecology & evolutionary biology, determined that marine plants and seaweeds decrease the acidity of their surroundings through photosynthesis.
«Humans are crazy for Facebook, but our research suggests that primates have been relying on the face to tell friends from competitors for the last 50 million years and that social pressures have guided the evolution of the enormous diversity of faces we see across the group today,» said Michael Alfaro, an associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology in the UCLA College of Letters and Science and senior author of the study.
Earlier surveys incorrectly labelled ancient savannas as newly deforested regions, said A. Carla Staver, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and senior author of the study.
Meeting this need will require collaboration among multiple fields of study including molecular biology, population genetics, evolutionary biology, and ecology.
Larison, a researcher in UCLA's department of ecology and evolutionary biology and the study's lead author, and her colleagues examined the plains zebra, which is the most common of three zebra species and has a wide variety of stripe patterns.
The study's co-authors are William Platt, professor of biology at Louisiana State University, and Louis Gross, director of the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis and professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee.
«Every day human beings make choices among multiple options in how to respond to various social situations,» says lead author of the current study Sergey Gavrilets, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, in a statement.
The study of male mating tactics is a core aspect of current behavioural ecology and evolutionary biology.
Alan R. Townsend -LRB-[email protected]-RRB- is professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and director of the Environmental Studies Program at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
He received his BA in physics, with an environmental studies minor, from Williams College (Massachusetts) in 1986, and a PhD in ecology and evolutionary biology from the University of Arizona in 1996.