Sentences with phrase «studying aquatic communities»
Considered the father of trophic cascades science, Paine has spent most of his life studying aquatic communities.
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Consumption of contaminated fish «is an especially pressing concern for many communities of color, low - income communities, tribes, and other indigenous peoples, whose members may consume fish, aquatic plants, and wildlife in greater quantities than does the general population,» according to a landmark Environmental Protection Agency study published nearly a decade ago.
«This study is about starting the conversation about how communities can buffer themselves against unpredictable ecosystem changes in the future,» said lead author Timothy Cline, a doctoral student in the UW's School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.
Sophia Passy studies the ecology of aquatic communities in systems ranging from laboratory streams to the continental freshwaters.
«The Southeast's rich aquatic communities are globally significant,» said Duncan Elkins, the study's coordinator and a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Georgia River Basin Center, based in the Odum School of Ecology.
The new study, done in collaboration with scientists at Eawag Swiss Federal Institute for Aquatic Sciences and Georgia Institute of Technology, in addition to more than 70 scientists from the international cichlid research community, appears in the September 3 advance online edition of Nature.