Sentences with phrase «used ecology and evolutionary biology»
His PhD research at the University of Oxford used ecology and evolutionary biology to test the importance of dispersal, interspecific competition and habitat for explaining biodiversity patterns in South American birds.
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«Greg Zolnerowich, professor of entomology, and Doug Goodin, professor of geography, were extremely helpful in providing data for our models, and Townsend Peterson, university distinguished professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at KU, provided much valuable help by sharing his years of experience in using such models to realistically predict species distributions,» Raghavan said.
The list of sciences that make extensive use of computer simulation has grown to include astrophysics, particle physics, materials science, engineering, fluid mechanics, climate science, evolutionary biology, ecology, economics, decision theory, medicine, sociology, epidemiology, and many others.
Langham led tours until he was 38, using the gigs to fund a 20 - year trek through undergrad, a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at Cornell, and a post-doc in Australia, where he first delved into climate modeling, investigating how shifts over millennia affected seven lizard species.