Peter Mumby of the University of Exeter, in England, and his colleagues looked at how the ecology of a coral reef in the Bahamas changed following the banning of fishing in 1986.
Kumar has a bachelor's degree in ecology from the University of Malaya, Malaysia, a master's degree in biology from the University of California, Santa Barbara and an MBA in finance from the University of California, Los Angeles.
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As recently as 50 years ago, the whitetip may have once outnumbered all the other big fish in the gulf, according to a paper published in Ecology Letters.
But encroaching agriculture and insects threaten to kill off most of the region's boswellia within the next 50 years, according to a study published this week in the Journal of Applied Ecology by a team of Dutch and Ethiopian ecologists.
Instead of Facebook being the Walmart of social media, it will become just one platform in a big ecology, including photo sharing with Instragram, broadcasting with Twitter, etc.
In a letter posted to family and friends, the woman who had graduated in 2011 from Western Washington University with a bachelor's degree in ecology, evolution and biology talked about falling in love with exotic cats.
Maine's College of the Atlantic, where students can major only in human ecology, could make a strong case.
When we reach the Age of Trillions your products and services will live in a richly percolating ecology where new forms of value emerge from serendipitous re-combinations.
This publication makes clear, freedom of expression is not just a by-product of technical change and it must be protected by legal and regulatory measures that balance a variety of potentially conflicting values and interests in a complex global ecology of choices.
The Organization also believes that freedom of expression is not just a by-product of technical change: it must be protected by legal and regulatory measures that balance a variety of potentially conflicting values and interests in a complex global ecology of choices.
"Regardless of this firm's expertise on purely technical matters unrelated to policy formation, Ecology and Environment's participation in a trade association and lobbying effort in support of authorizing high-volume hydraulic fracturing in New York fundamentally disqualifies the firm and its work" for the DEC environmental impact study, Russ Haven of the New York Public Interest Research Group said in a statement released Wednesday.
Hornaday, and in the Deep Ecology movement, associated with Arne Naess, a Norwegian philosopher and mountaineer, who, in the early seventies, noticed that some environmentalists had begun arguing that no species was of greater worth than another, and that ecosystems should be protected for their own sake, not simply to benefit mankind.
The starting point was a pioneering study in the mid-1970s on the ecology and metabolism of the city of Hong Kong, combined with a survey of the quality of life of individuals and human adaptation.
The results, which will be reported in a forthcoming issue of Functional Ecology, suggest that echelon swimming is the underwater equivalent to carrying a child.
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"The roster that followed the letter identified the magnitude and diversity of our membership and did not purport to reflect each member's individual point-of-view, " Gill said in a statement released Wednesday in response to questions raised about the impartiality of Ecology and Environment.
After determining the initial sex ratios of a series of clutches, the researchers added or subtracted chicks to increase or decrease the father's workload (a standard trick in avian ecology, made possible by the fact that parents do not recognise their own young until close to the time at which they leave the nest).
They might make all the difference to the planet's future: such at least was the view passionately expressed by Ban Ki-moon, the secretary-general of the United Nations, who flew this week from Kabul where he made an emergency visit because of a bomb attack on his staff, and a political crisis to a faith-and-ecology celebration in Windsor Castle, one of the residences of the British royal family.
Henderson Island, which lies in the eastern South Pacific, is one of the few atolls in the world whose ecology has been practically untouched by a human presence.
Technical innovation lasts about as long as a fruit fly in today's Web ecology, which has become everyone's.
Writing in the Journal of Animal Ecology, researchers suggest this shows a capacity to store maps of key sites.
But Mary Getchell, a spokeswoman for the ecology department, said there are uncertainties in linking salmon survival with river flows.
On Thursday, the agency's fisheries and ecology team isolated a 100m area of the river next to Ravensbury Park in Merton and used equipment which generated low voltage electric currents to check how many fish survived.
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Many sharks perish as bycatch, but increasingly they are being hunted for their fins, a delicacy in China and a lucrative commodity. (The annual export of fins is thought to be worth about a billion dollars.) One study, published in Ecology Letters last year, estimates that between twenty-six million and seventy-three million sharks are killed for their fins every year.
Once the barn was finished, the sleeping bats were put into a soft bag by an ecology consultant, and delivered to awaken in their new home.
The work started as a student project at Cambridge, and is published in Trends in Ecology and Evolution.
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Despite the warm feelings it now evokes in north European hearts, as a locus of healthy food and blissful ecology, the Mediterranean is a perilous place for sailors.
In this scientific yet accessible book, Laurent Keller, a professor of ecology at the University of Lausanne, and his co-writer, Elisabeth Gordon, shed light on how these extraordinarily complex creatures operate and what we can learn from them.
The water from the mine is contaminated with a range of metals which, untreated, could impact on shellfish and other ecology in the Fal Estuary.
The water from Wheal Jane mine is contaminated with a range of metals which, untreated, could impact on shellfish and other ecology in the Fal Estuary.
In river basins, soils, groundwater, riparian zones, streams, rivers, lakes and reservoirs act as successive filters in which the hydrology, ecology and biogeochemical processing are strongly coupled and together act to retain a significant fraction of the nutrients transported.
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