• In many of her papers, she has sought to unite ecology and evolutionary biology to derive a better understanding of the processes driving species diversity patterns. (wikipedia.org)
  • I am a researcher at Lund University with broad interests in ecology and evolutionary biology, including the fundamental processes of ecology, evolution and biogeographical processes that underpin community and ecosystem structure and dynamics. (lu.se)
  • Catherine H. Graham is an American team leader and senior scientist working on the Biodiversity & Conservation Biology, and the Spatial Evolutionary Ecology research units at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research WSL. (wikipedia.org)
  • Understand the science of biodiversity, including key concepts in macroecology, evolutionary biology, global change biology, and conservation biology. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • My research program focuses on the discovery and interpretation of hominin fossils and their environments with emphasis on fieldwork designed to acquire new data on early hominid skeletal biology, environmental context, and behavior. (calacademy.org)
  • Exposes students to ENS concentration areas (biology, physics and chemistry) focusing specifically on how these areas are integral to problem solving in environmental science. (bradley.edu)
  • Biology, Chemistry, and Physics majors with interest in environmental fields may find the content of interest. (bradley.edu)
  • In various projects, we have combined genetic and ecological approaches to better understand the evolutionary biology of P. cembra and to contribute to its sustainable use and conservation where necessary. (wsl.ch)
  • The summary for the Division of Environmental Biology grant is detailed below. (federalgrants.com)
  • The Division of Environmental Biology (DEB) Coresupports research and training on evolutionary and ecological processes acting at the level of populations, species, communities, and ecosystems. (federalgrants.com)
  • The Division of Environmental Biology seeks to strengthen the U.S. Environmental Biology workforce by increasing the participation of all individuals in science. (federalgrants.com)
  • GradTrac is available to Biology majors with an option in Botany, Environmental Biology, Medical Sciences, Microbiology, or Zoology, and to Clinical Laboratory Science majors. (wiu.edu)
  • Majors are offered in Biology (with options in Botany, Environmental Biology, Microbiology, Zoology, Medical Sciences, and Science/Biology Teacher Education) and Clinical Laboratory Science leading to a Bachelor of Science degree. (wiu.edu)
  • Current WIU students must be in good standing (2.0 GPA or higher) to declare a major in the Botany, Environmental Biology, Medical Sciences, Microbiology, and Zoology options. (wiu.edu)
  • By combining the power of data analysis, mathematical modeling, and advanced algorithms, computational biology enables researchers to gain insights into complex biological processes, unravel genetic mysteries, and develop innovative solutions for various medical and environmental challenges. (scholarsresearchlibrary.com)
  • Computational biology has expanded its reach beyond the laboratory, contributing to environmental and ecological research. (scholarsresearchlibrary.com)
  • Computational biology enables researchers to process and analyze vast amounts of biological data in a fraction of the time it would take using traditional methods. (scholarsresearchlibrary.com)
  • Computational biology contributes to conservation efforts by providing tools for biodiversity monitoring, ecosystem modeling, and predicting the impact of environmental changes. (scholarsresearchlibrary.com)
  • Academics from across the University in Biology, Environmental Sciences, Social Sciences, and Medicine will join together to deliver the £2.5m ASSETS Consortium project. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • The MSc Biodiversity and Global Change focuses on the evolutionary and ecological processes that underpin biodiversity. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • Understand the scientific methods that underpin the study of biodiversity, including ecological and evolutionary models, statistics, and experimental design. (ucl.ac.uk)
  • As our planet faces more frequent and severe environmental threats due to climate change (including threats to biodiversity), environmental justice will be essential to ensure that the costs and burdens of combating these threats are shared equally, borne by all people worldwide in a fair and equitable manner. (mdpi.com)
  • Dr. Juliano Sarmento Cabral is one of the world's experts in mechanistic modelling of eco-evolutionary biodiversity dynamics. (birmingham.ac.uk)
  • Proposals should be submitted to the core clusters (Ecosystem Science, Evolutionary Processes, Population and Community Ecology, and Systematics and Biodiversity Science). (federalgrants.com)
  • research addressing evolution and systematics in the marine biome should be directed to the Evolutionary Processes or Systematics and Biodiversity Science programs in DEB. (federalgrants.com)
  • By analyzing ecological data, mapping biodiversity, and modeling ecosystems, computational biologists help in conserving natural resources, managing ecosystems, and predicting the impact of climate change. (scholarsresearchlibrary.com)
  • The aim of this project is to study how biodiversity (e.g. phylobetadiversity) is generated and maintained by interacting ecological and evolutionary assembly processes along environmental gradients. (lu.se)
  • We use an integrative approach including theoretical, methodological and applied subparts that enable: i) a better understanding of observed diversity gradients, ii) inference of assembly processes from community data and iii) prediction of biodiversity to novel conditions. (lu.se)
  • We are facing a scientific revolution in the understanding of how human impacts on biodiversity affect ecosystem services - evolutionary studies can contribute to understanding not only changes in species composition but also how species adaptation affects important ecosystem services," says Mikael Pontarp. (lu.se)
  • The problems related to the process of industrialisation such as biodiversity depletion, climate change and a worsening of health and living conditions, especially but not only in developing countries, intensify. (lu.se)
  • Much of my research uses models to study the population and evolutionary dynamics of spatially structured populations. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • Biosphere dynamics ' are the ecological and evolutionary changes that occur as biological systems respond to, and contribute to, environmental change. (uib.no)
  • HOPE concentrates on ' ecological dynamics ' - the changes and interactions in the Earth life system expressed as changes in taxon distributions and abundances and in environment. (uib.no)
  • HOPE focuses on assessing the role that human activity during the Holocene has had on the major determinants of community assembly , structure, and dynamics over a range of spatial scales ranging from continents and biomes, to individual pollen sites, namely processes underlying the observed patterns. (uib.no)
  • Social transmission of information is taxonomically widespread and could have profound effects on the ecological and evolutionary dynamics of animal communities. (jyu.fi)
  • We adopt a modeling framework for spatiotemporal predator-pest dynamics that in addition to landscape structure, explicitly includes eco-evolutionary dynamics and adaptation in functional traits (e.g. body size, feeding specialization and dispersal). (lu.se)
  • Eco-evolutionary models of spatiotemporal dynamics of plant-pollinator communities. (lu.se)
  • Our research thus improves our general understanding of ecological and evolutionary mechanisms that underpin the eco-evolutionary processes that drive ecosystem dynamics including population sizes, traits evolution and diversification. (lu.se)
  • After completing his research, Vela-Vargas plans to create a large-scale Andean bear conservation program in Colombia and promote knowledge in rural communities about ecological processes and ecosystem services the bears and their habitats provide. (arizona.edu)
  • The ELUs and other potential ecological facet aggregations provide an accounting framework to assess ecosystem services, such as carbon storage and soil formation, as well as risks such as environmental degradation. (esri.com)
  • Academics from Civil Engineering, The GeoData Institute, Geography and Environmental and Social Sciences will work on this second ESPA Consortium project, which will assess the changing ecosystem services deltas provide, mainly focusing on the Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta in Bangladeshi and India. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Examples of ecological management of environmental problems and ecosystem services (3 hours). (uninsubria.eu)
  • As a result, ecological processes are relegated to a secondary role, even if they might be as important as the number of species, especially for the provision of ecosystem services. (mongabay.com)
  • More specifically, we aim to answer calls for an eco-evolutionary trait-based perspective on ecosystem services. (lu.se)
  • To better understand the significance of the new Global Ecological Land Units (ELUs) map and the data behind it, I recently met with project leads, Roger Sayre , Ph.D., Senior Scientist for Ecosystems, USGS, and Randy Vaughan, Manager of Content Engineering, Esri. (esri.com)
  • Tapestry of World Ecosystems: This story map introduces ecological land units and explores more than 100 places where diversity is highest. (esri.com)
  • While ELUs do not definitively characterize ecosystems at multiple scales, they do provide information and pointers to the ecological patterns of the globe. (esri.com)
  • As environmental and social issues press upon us, the question is how we can align our ecological work with the dynamic forces of ecosystems arising out of an immense evolutionary process," Tucker said. (yale.edu)
  • Small invertebrates play a central role in ecosystems, occupying critical positions in the food web and performing a broad variety of ecological functions. (springer.com)
  • Within specific forest ecosystems, the maintenance of ecological processes is dependent upon the maintenance of their biological diversity. (cbd.int)
  • The course aims to provide basic knowledge of the structures and functions of ecosystems and of the mechanisms and laws that underlie the environmental balance and biological organization at the population and community level. (uninsubria.eu)
  • The student will acquire skills and abilities in identifying the basic organization processes of ecosystem processes and the environmental mechanisms that regulate biological organization in natural ecosystems. (uninsubria.eu)
  • Our findings also improve understanding of urgent issues associated with changing environmental conditions (e.g., climate change, loss of natural habitats), a theoretical understanding that can be applied and tested in many specific ecosystems. (lu.se)
  • By definition, comparative physiology is broad, spanning a variety of animal taxa occurring in diverse environmental settings, and studied at many levels of biological organization (from molecular physiology to physiological ecology). (scienceblogs.com)
  • An amateur jazz trumpeter and avid collector of 19th century cornets, Eldredge has turned his evolutionary approach to cornet history--and to the comparison of patterns and processes of material cultural and biological evolution. (amnh.org)
  • Ecological theory states that as diversity increases and biological interactions, such as competition, intensify, the process of diversification slows down to a halt, so that the appearance and establishment of a new species will inevitably lead to the extinction of an old one. (eurekalert.org)
  • This accelerates the pace of scientific discovery, leading to breakthroughs in understanding diseases, developing new treatments, and advancing our knowledge of fundamental biological processes. (scholarsresearchlibrary.com)
  • Forest biological diversity is a broad term that refers to all life forms found within forested areas and the ecological roles they perform. (cbd.int)
  • Forest biological diversity results from evolutionary processes over thousands and even millions of years which, in themselves, are driven by ecological forces such as climate, fire, competition and disturbance. (cbd.int)
  • Biological and environmental risk factors, such as difficulties in school learning and low socioeconomic status may have contributed to delays in motor development. (bvsalud.org)
  • Childhood motor development may be influenced by biological and environmental risk factors such as gestational age at birth, type of birth, family socioeconomic status, and parental education level. (bvsalud.org)
  • Research on developmental disorders has increased in recent years, particularly investigations of motor disorders associated with multiple biological or environmental factors 1 . (bvsalud.org)
  • 3 describe a range of studies on the interaction between biological and environmental risk factors for infant development, and argue that the influence of both types of factors is modified and enhanced when acting jointly, causing negative consequences for development. (bvsalud.org)
  • Mobility depends on a complex repertoire of biological, behavioral and environmental processes including animal fitness, habitat selection, dispersion, foraging, social interactions, predator aversion, and reproduction, which may occur across multiple spatial and temporal scales [7] - [10] . (cdc.gov)
  • involving biological development and What went without comment, and pathological processes. (who.int)
  • This breadth allows comparative physiology to (a) understand basic physiological processes and (b) identify novel mechanisms used by animals to solve specific physiological challenges. (scienceblogs.com)
  • Macroecological rules have been developed for plants and animals that describe large-scale distributional patterns and attempt to explain the underlying physiological and ecological processes behind them. (frontiersin.org)
  • For plants and animals, many macroecological rules have been theorized to explain the physiological, ecological, and some evolutionary processes that underlie these patterns. (frontiersin.org)
  • Our research focuses on ecological and physiological research questions related to forest growth, production and material balances. (helsinki.fi)
  • We use coral reef fishes, and in particular anemonefish, as models to address three main questions: How do fish larvae integrate environmental and physiological information to trigger coordinated programs leading to metamorphosis? (oist.jp)
  • This thesis provides fundamental high-priority knowledge in taxonomic, evolutionary, and ecological aspects of deep-sea coral and vent species, by harnessing the power of genomics and overcoming long-standing methodological barriers. (whoi.edu)
  • Poison frogs (Dendrobatoidea) are a particularly interesting system, as they display diverse social behaviours that are shaped by conspecific and environmental interactions, thus offering a tractable system to investigate how closely related species may respond to the impacts of HIREC. (jyu.fi)
  • My work focuses on assessing the processes that shape diversity and the ecological implications of variation within microbial species. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • I use a range of approaches (including field sampling, ecological genomics, and lab experimentation) to characterise population-level diversity and to understand how diversity shapes species interactions (e.g. predation) and species responses to environmental variation. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Habitat suitability modeling was used to explore the likelihood of species spatial occurrence based on environmental characteristics. (frontiersin.org)
  • Wildlife populations are being managed less on an ecological model and more on a farm model, with some species being favored and others (typically predators) disfavored. (rewilding.org)
  • Computational approaches aid in reconstructing evolutionary relationships between species and understanding their genetic ancestry. (scholarsresearchlibrary.com)
  • Furthermore, functional variation within a species and its populations can help buffer against harmful environmental changes. (fu-berlin.de)
  • The ecological and climatic conditions suitable for these relict species have not been identified. (nature.com)
  • We further use Ecological Niche Modeling to show that these patterns align with maps of climate refugia, and we predict species' chances of persistence given the future climatic changes expected for East Asia. (nature.com)
  • Ecological Niche Modeling (ENM) is widely used to predict species distributions and has been applied to identify climate refugia 14 . (nature.com)
  • In line with our initial idea, our model includes several ecological interactions including (1) within-trophic-level competitive interactions for resources, (2) between-trophic-level antagonistic and mutualistic interactions, and (3) the way in which species interacts with the abiotic environments. (lu.se)
  • Over just a few generations, the genetic composition of species can change in response to environmental changes, altering not only the overall species composition but also the adaptation of individual species. (lu.se)
  • Other things that in recent years have attracted researchers to the Nordic herbarium are among other things the possibilities to obtain from the collections unique information about the phenology of species (like flowering time), chemical contents (like environmental toxins) and parasites (like micro-fungi and bile-forming insects), and how these have changed over time and space. (lu.se)
  • All sounds in the ocean constitutes the sound environment and the marine species therein are evolutionary adapted to live in this cacophony. (lu.se)
  • Key interests include (1) the evolutionary ecology and population genetics of range expansions, (2) incorporating greater realism into the dispersal process within spatial population models, (3) evolvability (including the causes and consequences of mutation rate) and (4) the evolutionary ecology of longevity. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • I suggest that the geological processes and dispersal mechanisms discussed here can explain distribution patterns of many other marine taxa. (whoi.edu)
  • To unravel processes such as dispersal and adaptation to local environmental conditions, molecular markers are useful tools. (wsl.ch)
  • Using a dispersal exclusion experiment, this study isolates the specific effect of environmental dispersal on bacterial and fungal community assembly over time following a wildfire. (bvsalud.org)
  • The work demonstrates the potential to quantify dispersal impacts on soil microbial communities over time and test how dispersal might further interact with other assembly processes in response to environmental change. (bvsalud.org)
  • We focus on the phylogenetic distance between communities (phylobetadiversity) as it contains signals from both ecological and evolutionary processes and we construct spatially explicit eco-evolutionary community models that generate phylobetadiversity patterns, given different degrees of ecological interactions, dispersal propensity of the organism and properties of the environmental gradient. (lu.se)
  • Losos advocates a detailed understanding of organisms and their environmental interactions. (amacad.org)
  • Ecological communities are defined by both the organisms that persist within habitats, and the interactions that shape the assembly and diversity patterns of these organisms. (springer.com)
  • Highly motivated students with a keen interest in eco-evolutionary interactions as well as good computer skills and interest in mathematical modeling and computer programing. (lu.se)
  • My group's research focuses on understanding the mechanisms that connect pre-mRNA processing with translation and Nonsense Mediated mRNA Decay (NMD). (birmingham.ac.uk)
  • Physical geography has a strong natural science emphasis and focuses on physical and ecological systems at or close to the earth's surface, and the interaction of these systems with people. (ubc.ca)
  • The social ecological model conceptualizes health broadly and focuses on multiple factors that might affect health. (cdc.gov)
  • In particular, she and Paul Fine laid out a framework for interpreting community assembly processes from a phylogenetic approach to quantifying beta diversity. (wikipedia.org)
  • Phylogenetic beta diversity: linking ecological and evolutionary processes across space in time. (wikipedia.org)
  • I am a lecturer in evolutionary ecology with a range of interests related to understanding diversity in aquatic eukaryotic microbes. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • The findings, published today in Nature , were reached through a pioneering model that reconstructs the diversity of marine animals from their origin - some 550 million years ago- to the present, based on plate tectonics and environmental factors, mainly ocean temperature and food supply. (eurekalert.org)
  • The model reveals that the increase in diversity is real and is associated with the development of diversity hotspots during the last 200 million years, when the Earth's environmental conditions were relatively stable. (eurekalert.org)
  • In the model, each tracked region accumulates diversity over time at a rate controlled by the environmental conditions of each region and at each time. (eurekalert.org)
  • The new model also sheds light on one of the most controversial questions in evolutionary ecology: whether or not there is a limit to the diversity that the Earth can support. (eurekalert.org)
  • I am very excited to welcome Mauro into the SNRE community where he adds to the diversity of scientific inquiry focused on enabling informed decision-making related to our environmental challenges. (arizona.edu)
  • The collaborative partnership between Esri and USGS resulted in a dynamic online map representing the world's ecological diversity at unprecedented detail and authority. (esri.com)
  • The ELUs also lend themselves to the study of ecological diversity, rarity, and evolutionary isolation. (esri.com)
  • By analyzing genomic data, scientists can build phylogenetic trees, infer evolutionary histories, and shed light on the processes that have shaped the diversity of life on Earth. (scholarsresearchlibrary.com)
  • 1. Intraspecific trait variability (ITV) maintains functional diversity in populations and communities, and plays a crucial role in ecological and evolutionary processes such as trophic cascades or speciation. (fu-berlin.de)
  • The project will be part of a larger research program that aims to enable i) a better understanding of observed diversity gradients, ii) quantification of eco-evolutionary processes that structure natural communities and iii) investigation of the mechanistic (e.g. genetics and genotype to phenotype mapping) underpinning of diversification and phylogenetic patterns. (lu.se)
  • Losos synthesizes present-day studies of ecological process with historical studies of evolutionary outcome to understand evolutionary diversification in Anolis lizards. (amacad.org)
  • He is a proponent of the experimental approach to studying evolutionary phenomena in nature, as exemplified by his 1997 Nature paper, which has been cited as one of only two truly complete field-experimental studies of evolutionary diversification. (amacad.org)
  • However, debate persists about whether whole genome duplication (polyploidy) is an evolutionary dead-end or a key process fostering diversification and expanded ecological tolerance in lineages. (tepapa.govt.nz)
  • Our analyses will answer key evolutionary questions on the role of polyploidy in the diversification of vascular plants within New Zealand, and allow comparisons to other island systems. (tepapa.govt.nz)
  • I am interested in human evolution in general, and specifically in the events surrounding the origin and diversification of early hominins in the Mio-Pliocene and how these processes were shaped by underlying environmental and ecological factors. (uchicago.edu)
  • We have designed and analysed an eco-evolutionary and functional-trait-based model of three interacting trophic levels and we have simulated adaptation and diversification in traits as a response to eco-evolutionary feedbacks. (lu.se)
  • Comparative physiology takes advantage of the diverse evolutionary histories and ecological settings of animals. (scienceblogs.com)
  • We use field, growth chamber, or greenhouse experiments, RNA and DNA sequencing, demographic modeling, surveys of environmental factors, or chemical analyses to understand ecological and evolutionary processes and patterns across time and space. (bgsu.edu)
  • An important mathematical tool to calculate the establishment probability of novel genetic variants is provided by branching process theory. (uni-luebeck.de)
  • In the first part of the talk, I will present models of evolutionary rescue in an ecological context and discuss how environmental and genetic factors influence the probability of evolutionary res- cue. (uni-luebeck.de)
  • This is possible through a modeling project that aims at combining an explicit genetic architecture and a trait-based eco-evolutionary model of adaptive radiations. (lu.se)
  • Implement explicit genetics to available trait-based eco-evolutionary IBM's and study how assortative mating can evolve and ultimately affect genetic and phenotypic divergence between populations. (lu.se)
  • Alternatively, the student may want to simulate the assembly of theoretical communities and contrast the genetic and phenotypic structure of communities that are distributed along environmental gradients with different slopes. (lu.se)
  • that theorizing is concerned with of cancer inequitable, within and Although the centrality of theory causal processes, agency, and ac- across populations and the places to scientific observation and causal countability, and not solely empirical and time periods they inhabit, it is inference has been recognized for observation of differences. (who.int)
  • If we had a better understanding of the mechanisms at play, we might have a better picture of evolutionary change and its predictability. (phys.org)
  • IMPORTANCE Identifying the mechanisms underlying microbial community succession is necessary for predicting how microbial communities, and their functioning, will respond to future environmental change. (bvsalud.org)
  • A new article co-authored by Guido Caniglia combines niche construction theory with social-ecological systems science to better understand the relationships between sociocultural and environmental co-evolutionary processes that have led to the current planetary crisis. (kli.ac.at)
  • The social ecological model understands health to be affected by the interaction between the individual, the group/community, and the physical, social, and political environments (Israel et al. (cdc.gov)
  • Both the community engagement approach and the social ecological model recognize the complex role played by context in the development of health problems as well as in the success or failure of attempts to address these problems. (cdc.gov)
  • To inform its health promotion programs, CDC (2007) created a four-level model of the factors affecting health that is grounded in social ecological theory, as illustrated in Figure 1.2. (cdc.gov)
  • My research interest revolves around the key issue of how we became human through evolutionary processes. (calacademy.org)
  • In HOPE these are called ' ecosystem or ecological properties ' and represent HOPE's major research focus. (uib.no)
  • MI Introduces Environmental Science majors to critical concepts in Environmental Science Fields focusing on broad topics such as hypothesis testing, library research, and ethics in science. (bradley.edu)
  • How can historical research inform environmental thinking? (eseh.org)
  • Fulbright Scholar Ivan Mauricio Vela-Vargas has brought his passion for wildlife research to the School of Natural Resources and the Environment at the College of Agriculture, Life and Environmental Sciences. (arizona.edu)
  • Swiss stone pine is characterized by life history traits that make it a suitable model system for ecological and evolutionary research. (wsl.ch)
  • They will be useful for constructing research agendas and for understanding global processes such as climate change. (esri.com)
  • All DEB programs also encourage proposals that leverage NSF-supported data networks, databases, centers, and other forms of scientific infrastructure, including but not limited to the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON), Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER), Environmental Data Initiative (EDI), and Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio). (federalgrants.com)
  • The big questions my research seeks to explore concern the evolutionary history of the earliest human ancestors subsequent to the human-ape split about 7 million years ago. (uchicago.edu)
  • A suite of research methods will be developed to enable a full assessment of process vulnerability, path-dependency, resilience, model development and model validation in rural landscapes within the rural lower Yangtze river basin, China. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Most of my research is theoretical in nature and I use eco-evolutionary simulation models to study how assembly processes across spatiotemporal scales affect community patterns. (lu.se)
  • Research trying to understand why these changes occur and what we can do about them has mainly focused on ecological processes. (lu.se)
  • CIPA (Correlative Image Processing and Analysis) - a local research infrastructure at Lund University with the aim of reducing the gap between the amount of acquired and consequently analysed images. (lu.se)
  • Analysis of environmental and ecological factors affecting primate and human evolutionary processes. (calacademy.org)
  • Faunal study: Fossil faunal analysis to explore environmental and ecological factors affecting human and primate evolution. (uchicago.edu)
  • This project could involve natural and social sciences (ecological problem-solving or policymaking), environmental humanities (arts and literature), or education (curriculum planning). (yale.edu)
  • Concentrating initially on Neuroscience, Molecular Sciences, Mathematical Sciences, Environmental and Ecological Sciences and Physical Sciences, OIST is bringing some of the best brains in the world to Okinawa to transform the way science and education is done in the global academic world. (oist.jp)
  • A multidisciplinary endeavor exploring key evolutionary questions about early hominins and their environments. (calacademy.org)
  • Yet, the paleobiology of these early hominins cannot be fully understood without comprehending the paleoenvironmental and paleoecological context within which these evolutionary processes took place. (uchicago.edu)
  • This Programme Framework Grant (£250K) led by John Dearing with Richard Treves (Geography) and Terry Dawson (Dundee) aims to develop a novel evolutionary framework for the study of ecological services and their pathways to delivery through the regional integration and analysis of multi-decadal records of social and ecological records. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Fossils from Mille-Logya, Afar, Ethiopia, elucidate the link between Pliocene environmental changes and Homo origins. (uchicago.edu)
  • In biologically diverse forests, this complexity allows organisms to adapt to continually changing environmental conditions and to maintain ecosystem functions. (cbd.int)
  • Evolution often appears random, even when driven by the deterministic process of natural selection, because we just aren't aware of all the environmental fluctuations and other factors taking place that drive change," says Utah State University biologist Zach Gompert. (phys.org)
  • The ecosystem: abiotic components such as resources and environmental conditions, tolerance and limiting factors, gradients and ecotones, habitats and niches. (uninsubria.eu)
  • Understanding the spatial non-stationarity in the relationships between malaria incidence and environmental risk factors using Geographically Weighted Random Forest: A case study in Rwanda , Geospatial Health, 18(1), 1184. (lu.se)
  • Community composition varied among chicha samples, even those separated by short geographic distances, suggesting that ecological and/or evolutionary processes, including human-mediated factors, may be responsible for creating locally distinct ferments. (who.int)
  • On the one hand, it might restrict the usefulness of the word "alpine" as a descriptor of the particular ecosystem traits and environmental characteristics of the temperate mountains that inspired the original use of the term. (bioone.org)
  • Predictors related to moisture were especially influential on the differences between the grey/dark and reddish models, and demonstrate an effect of natural selection on coloration traits, suggest- ing that a complex interplay of different ecological processes regulates this system over evolutionary time. (procarnivoros.org.br)
  • Finally, I explore the adaptive potential of deep-sea corals to environmental changes by examining a case of adaptation to shallow water from the deep sea. (whoi.edu)
  • The Global ELUs map portrays a systematic division and classification of the biosphere using ecological and physiographic land surface features. (esri.com)
  • Eldredge went on to develop a hierarchical vision of evolutionary and ecological systems, and in his book The Pattern of Evolution (1999) he has developed a comprehensive theory (the 'sloshing bucket') that specifies in detail how environmental change governs the evolutionary process. (amnh.org)
  • A critic of gene-centered theories of evolution, Eldredge's Why We Do It (2004) presents an alternative account to the gene-based notions of 'evolutionary psychology' to explain why human beings behave as they do. (amnh.org)
  • Schoenmakers' project "The Origins of Evolution" examines the application of evolutionary theory to the origin and early development of life. (kli.ac.at)
  • The Marine Eco-Evo-Devo (MEED) Unit at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) seeks to understand the evolution of life history strategies (in particular metamorphosis), integrating ecological, evolutionary and developmental components. (oist.jp)
  • They also suggest poor predictability of environmental variation and how it affects selection, rather than random evolutionary processes, might be the main limits on predicting evolution. (phys.org)
  • These systems also provide experimentally-tractable models to examine broader ecological and evolutionary processes. (exeter.ac.uk)
  • Berry, who called for a "new story" that would situate humans in a dynamic evolving universe, provided a basis for a broader appreciation of ecology and a more comprehensive environmental ethics. (yale.edu)
  • Such methodologies include integration of instrument, document, palaeo-environmental, socio-economic and indigenous knowledge data sources, and development and application of visualisation, network analysis, numerical and agent-based modelling approaches over annual-decadal timescales with validation against historical records. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • They encompass many processes, e.g. population growth rates, shifts in range, changes in biogeochemical cycling, community composition changes, speciation, and extinctions at a range of spatial and temporal scales. (uib.no)
  • Models were constructed with the maxent algorithm using a large database of spatial C. rogercresseyi occurrences from the Chilean fisheries health authority and included 23 environmental variables obtained from the Ocean Rasters for Analysis of Climate and Environment (Bio-ORACLE). (frontiersin.org)
  • Levels of organization: the concept of hierarchy in ecology, temporal and spatial scales, emerging properties of ecological systems. (uninsubria.eu)
  • In particular, I co-ordinate two modules, one on Population Ecology and one on Advanced Ecological Modelling. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • At undergraduate level, I contribute to several courses at both 3rd and 4th year, most substantially to 3rd year Population Ecology where I introduce ecological modelling. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • Biogeography of polymorphic phenotypes: Mapping and ecological modelling of coat colour variants in an elusive Neotropical cat, the jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi). (procarnivoros.org.br)
  • Amphibians are an ecologically diverse class with a wide range of social and sexual behaviours, making them a compelling model to understand the potential adaptations of animals faced with the effects of human-induced rapid environmental changes (HIREC). (jyu.fi)
  • is because in the case of science, it tral argument of this chapter is that is theory that structures understand- theoretical blindfolds can lead to Cancer inequities: this short phrase ing of causal processes (Ziman, needless suffering and preventable encompasses a plethora of ideas. (who.int)
  • Introduction to how the concept of sustainability and the basic principles of evolutionary and ecological processes impact food production and distribution. (bradley.edu)
  • Energy: ecological implications of the principles of thermodynamics. (uninsubria.eu)
  • Our results suggest complexity and a wide dispersion of the biogeographic distribution of the C. rogercresseyi habitat suitability with potential implications for control strategies and environmental issues for salmon farming in Chile. (frontiersin.org)
  • For example, the data will be important to the study of environmental change. (esri.com)
  • His focus is on linking different photosynthetic processes with mathematical models to study the biochemical limitations of carbon fixation and to gain a quantitative understanding of how plant carbon uptake responds to changes in the environment. (birmingham.ac.uk)
  • The questions are analysed using theoretical models and numerical simulations that are based on a mechanistic description of tree processes. (helsinki.fi)
  • The models allow us to investigate quantitatively the impacts of environmental changes on forest growth and functioning. (helsinki.fi)
  • We also employed the distribution models to investigate whether particular environmental predictors could explain these different distributions. (procarnivoros.org.br)
  • Moreover, their association to different habitats has so far not been tested statistically, so that their ecological relevance with respect to varying environmen- tal features remains unknown. (procarnivoros.org.br)
  • Using genomic analysis, the scientists were able to show, in both cases, the deterministic process of selection was the likely cause of evolutionary change. (phys.org)
  • To complete the training course, the course also aims to provide the basis of human ecology for understanding the gene-culture co-evolutionary process. (uninsubria.eu)
  • The course also aims to educate the student in the technical language of the Ecological discipline. (uninsubria.eu)
  • The alpine tree line marks a distinct change in mountain landscapes as an ecological boundary for tree growth. (wsl.ch)
  • Environmental change, if severe, can cause a population to decline in size and ultimately drive it extinct unless the population rapidly adapts to the new conditions. (uni-luebeck.de)
  • While we can use the past to predict change, he says, we're constrained by our lack of knowledge of the future and complex ecological processes that contribute to change. (phys.org)
  • The researchers build on recent findings that evolutionary processes, in response to landscape change, are happening faster than previously thought. (lu.se)
  • Ecological Tapestry of the World online explorer application: Explore the ecological data behind the land unit map and begin planning how it can be used in your work. (esri.com)
  • 2006 - Lecturer (from 2008, Senior lecturer, and from, 2013 Professor) in Ecological and Evolutionary Modellinf, University of Aberdeen. (abdn.ac.uk)
  • This course is intended primarily as a required element of the Environmental Science Major (ENS-B, ENS-C, ENS-P) program at Bradley University. (bradley.edu)
  • When I contacted him, he was a kind person and helped me in the process of applying to the University of Arizona," Vela-Vargas said. (arizona.edu)
  • The four six-week courses, which weave the discoveries of evolutionary science with the humanities - such as history, philosophy, art, and religion - are the School's first MOOCs and the first online "specialization" offered by Yale University. (yale.edu)
  • For evolutionary rescue to occur, it is not sufficient that well-adapted types are present in the population or appear during population decline. (uni-luebeck.de)
  • However, technological advances the causal processes that give rise disease rates and the way their caus- notwithstanding, in both biomedical to health inequities. (who.int)
  • This map as well as the data layers used to create it can be explored in a story map that introduces ecological land units. (esri.com)
  • Note: Yale School of the Environment (YSE) was formerly known as the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies (F&ES). (yale.edu)
  • In order to promote the application skills of the acquired knowledge, case studies concerning the most current national and international environmental problems and critical issues will be presented and discussed collectively. (uninsubria.eu)
  • For the preparation of the work, the scientific team used a palaeogeographic model that tracks the movements of continents and the seafloor through geological time and a paleo-Earth system model that reconstructs the environmental conditions of ancient seas. (eurekalert.org)
  • This streamlines the drug discovery process, reducing costs and time associated with bringing new therapeutics to market. (scholarsresearchlibrary.com)