Sentences with phrase «with ecological roles»

Hence, street gutters and the microscopic life they host appear to constitute a unique ecosystem with ecological roles still to be discovered.

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He deals in more detail with his own personal role in the decision of the Chinese government to announce its goal of making of China an «ecological civilization.»

In practical terms, Boff has been occupying, with his ecological - cosmological reflections, a pioneering role in.

work with education providers to ensure climate change policies fully recognise the role of education and schools in delivering behaviour change, and bring more understanding of ecological issues into our schools.

«We need to know what insects eat when doing ecosystem restoration, and we shouldn't assume that species with generalist feeding habits will necessarily fill the same ecological roles as more specialized species.»

«It's easy to sympathize with the prey,» Laidre says, «but at the same time, there's a lot of ecological roles that that sort of action has.»

In the study they examine the environmental and ecological factors that would have impacted fire activity and conclude that of these factors p (O2) played the largest role in promoting fires in Late Paleozoic peat - forming environments and, by inference, ecosystems generally, when compared with their prevalence in the modern world.

The researchers specifically examined the role of grey reef sharks (Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos), a predatory species commonly associated with coral environments but whose wider ecological role has long been debated.

The human relationship with caffeine is relatively recent, however, and thus its impact on our brains is likely a by - product of its true ecological role.

The scientists said they are currently working on analyses to model the ecological role that nonhuman primates play in maintaining the diversity of astroviruses, particularly in places where they share the environment with humans and other animals.

But flies play important ecological roles, as pollinators for example, points out Chris Nagano, an entomologist with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

Marilyn Roossinck of Pennsylvania State University, University Park, spoke with Sarah Crespi about the diversity of roles that viruses take on in ecological systems, from protecting plants from drought to moderating nitrogen fixation.

Although the study is interesting, says Eric Dinerstein, a biologist with the World Wildlife Fund in Washington, D.C., he argues that information about the ecological roles of subspecies may be an even more important criterion than genetic makeup in designing conservation strategies.

But with a little genetic help, their ecological role may one day be filled again.

This result agrees with the different habitats and ecological roles of each strain, being F113 a rhizospheric bacterium with biocontrol activities (32), similar to UM270; while UK4 is a biofilm former with no attributed plant - associated activity (15).

This study aims to use ecological genomics and next - gen DNA sequencing tools to provide the baseline knowledge on the bio-geographic distribution of chromerids and apicomplexans on the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), their association with different coral hosts, and their role in coral health and disease.

But appreciation of the ecological roles of street dogs & coyotes, exposing dog - eating and puppy mills, opposition to indiscriminate lethal animal control, introduction of high - volume low - cost spay / neuter and anti-rabies vaccination, introduction of online adoption promotion, encouraging the formation of thousands of new humane societies worldwide, etc., are not to be confused with pit bull advocacy.

The key subject of the course is the Exhibition as Communicative Space and will include: discussions about criticism and analysis of comprehensive phenomenon of how contemporary art, design, architecture, sound and performance, and publications as dominant art forms of visual culture adapt, co-exist, and conflict with market system; the course will reflect upon creative responses to conflict and crisis versus problems of value judgment on today's market - led cultural phenomenon and cultural movement, and the role of curator as a cultural translator and mediator between the two; and exploration of alternatives for ecological health of increasingly globalized art and culture.

The notion of ecological or environmental citizenship has been theorized in academia for the past decade or so, with British political theorist Andrew Dobson taking a leading role in combing the discourses of political and environmental theory to construct a new concept of citizenship.

I met Arne at the «Universe Story» gathering in Marin County some years back — Jamuary 1990 — at which I discussed with him his position on the role of religions in explicating his ideas about inner ecological attunement.

(Dunlap and McCright, 2011:144) The mainstream conservative movement, embodied in conservative foundations and think tanks, quickly joined forces with the fossil fuel industry (which recognized very early the threat posed by recognition of global warming and the role of carbon emissions) and wider sectors of corporate America to oppose the threat of global warming not as an ecological problem but as a problem for unbridled economic growth.

This study, espousing an ecological — transactional theoretical approach, investigates the role of supportive relationships with parents and friends as potential protective factors against the development of adolescent sexual risk behavior.

From a social - ecological perspective, this result suggests the importance of network cooperation at a mesosystem level, with teachers from educational centers playing a crucial role in the prevention of bullying / victimization.