"Our philosophy with the island has always been, 'OK, remove the threats and let the island go back to what it was'," says ecologist Christina Boser.

生态学家克里斯蒂娜·波沙说：“对待这座岛的理念一直是，‘好的，消除威胁，让岛屿回归它原本的样子’。”

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"Many factors contributed to the decline", said Patrick McIntyre, an ecologist who was the lead author of the study.

该研究的领头作者、生态学家帕特里克·麦克伦泰尔表示：“许多因素导致了这种下降。”

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The ecologist is concerned primarily with the quantities of matter and energy that pass through a given ecosystem, and with the rates at which they do so.

生态学家主要关注的是流经某一生态系统的物质和能量的量以及它们的速度。

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Ecologist Garrett Hardin described this idea in nineteen sixty-eight as "the tragedy of the commons."

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They are known as Asian Carp and the explosion of their population in the Illinois River is a concern to large-river ecologist Kevin Irons.

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"If you wanted to create a perfect storm for biological invasion, you would do what the energy companies are doing in north-central Pennsylvania, " said Kevin Heatley, an ecologist with the national firm Biohabitats who works to restore areas that have been damaged by human activity.

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But to others, like Brigitte Howarth, an ecologist at the UAE's Zayed University, Lake Zakher is an environmental calamity.

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Viola Ross-Smith, Research Ecologist with the British Trust for Ornithology, said it was difficult to say what would happen following the publication of the research.

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