Sentences with phrase «tropical ecologists»

While peatlands in Southeast Asia — namely Sumatra, Borneo, and New Guinea — are best known to tropical ecologists, they are also found in other parts of the world, including the Amazon.

It has been conducted by tropical ecologists of the University Würzburg Biocenter, jointly with colleagues from the LOEWE Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F, Frankfurt / Main) and the Institute for experimental Ecology of the University of Ulm....

A big value of INPE's annual deforestation estimates is that they offer a simple, clear indicator about how the world's largest rainforest is faring, says tropical ecologist Dan Nepstad of the Earth Innovation Institute in San Francisco, California.

Most official timber concessions are already depleted, exposing the network of nature reserves to illegal logging, says tropical ecologist Lisa Curran of Yale University.

Since 2009, studies by Pan's group, and by tropical ecologist Luis Fernandez at the Carnegie Institution for Science at Stanford University in California, have found high mercury levels in some species of fish, particularly large catfish and in fish that eat other fish.

«It's the happy tree that is lucky to live and be in a good environment to survive,» says Simon Lewis, a tropical ecologist at the University of Leeds in the United Kingdom and co-founder of a network of 260 plot studies across 12 African nations.

«Our study says that these models are too optimistic,» says Peter van der Sleen, a tropical ecologist at Wageningen University and Research Centre (Wageningen UR) in the Netherlands.

Another key contributor was tropical ecologist Greg Asner of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, who a year ago announced a partnership with the search giant.

The park is very popular with tropical ecologist, eco-tourists, and generally outdoorsy people alike who all share a love the abundance of plant and wildlife.

Not exact matches

Rainforest Alliance President Nigel Sizer, a tropical forest ecologist, explains the complex relationship between rainforests and climate change — and why it is more important than ever that those who are concerned make their voices heard.

Other tropical rainforest ecologists are happy to have this long - awaited bird's - eye view of the jungle.

«This finding may lay to rest a long - standing debate in tropical forest ecology,» says ecologist Steve Turton of James Cook University in Cairns, Australia.

Charles Sheppard, a tropical marine ecologist at the University of Warwick in England, says a warming spike in 1998 killed nearly all the coral in the reefs that ring the islands.

This orchid bee was one of 16 outfitted with a radio transmitter backpack as part of a study of the insects» flight habits by ecologists at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama.

And Michael Logan, an evolutionary ecologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama City, calls the work «the most comprehensive demonstration of natural selection to date» on how body temperature is regulated.

«All of the Amazon is a large oil block,» warns Patricia Alvarez Loayza, an ecologist and regional coordinator of Manu National Park for the TEAM Network, an international association that monitors tropical ecosystems.

Some restoration ecologists consider tropical grassland habitats off limits for tree - planting projects.

«This is a real wake - up call,» says tropical forest ecologist Dan Nepstad of Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts.

«There's a high degree of random effects» in what comes back, says Jefferson Hall, a forest ecologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama who was not involved with the work.

The new study «represents our best understanding of how tropical secondary forests change over time,» says Jennifer Powers, an ecosystems ecologist at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

Decades later, tropical forest ecologists began reporting that some tree species are sensitive to more intense seasonal drought.

As North America chilled, «tropical trees there started dying off and the oaks were able to spread across the continent,» explains co-author Jeannine Cavender - Bares, an evolutionary ecologist at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

Pau's findings suggest that tropical forests, which have evolved over millennia to flourish in warm, equatorial conditions, may be more sensitive to subtle climatic changes than some ecologists predicted.

«Island nations in the western Pacific region are subjected to more tropical cyclones than anywhere else worldwide,» said Thomas Marler, ecologist with the University of Guam.

Applying this hypothesis to 122 forest plots catalogued by the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama — ranging from the drier Pacific side of the isthmus to the wetter Caribbean side — plant ecologist Bettina Engelbrecht and her colleagues demonstrated that drought controls plant distribution.

An international research team headed by Michael O'Brien, an ecologist at the University of Zurich, is now studying which factors govern the resistance of tropical trees to periods of drought.

Ecologists» estimates of the number of tropical arthropods come from counting beetles.

Disputes have broken out among ecologists over a study that suggests climate change might not increase the range of tropical diseases after all

Among them are mechanical engineers, microbiologists, environmental chemists and marine ecologists, as well as immunologists and scientists engaged in fighting tropical and infectious diseases.

Ecologist Greg Asner, of the Carnegie Institution for Science, says, «The study represents a major step forward in the effort to map the current state of global tropical biomass stocks.

(05/27/2008) Next generation biofuels could decimate tropical forests says a leading ecologist from the University of Minnesota.

Anand Osuri, an ecologist at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Bangalore, India, wanted to see just how much carbon storage could be lost if large, animal - dispersed trees were removed from tropical forests around the world.