• I am an ornithologist working in taxonomy, evolution, biogeography and ecology of Neotropical birds. (xeno-canto.org)
  • Frontiers in Ecology & Evolution 2022, 10 , 951967. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • Ecology and Evolution 06. (uit.no)
  • Ecology and Evolution, 12, e8643. (uzh.ch)
  • Nature Ecology & Evolution 5, 1478-1489. (uzh.ch)
  • Ecology and Evolution, 10, 5527-5543. (uzh.ch)
  • Ecology and Evolution, 10, 7616-7626. (uzh.ch)
  • Aspects of oceanic life are investigated using powerful techniques of molecular biology, biochemistry, cell biology, genomics, proteomics, sophisticated acoustic and optical methods, behavior, ocean informatics, and mathematical modeling of molecular processes and population dynamics. (whoi.edu)
  • S. Ruan and D. Xiao (2023), Imperfect and Bogdanov-Takens bifurcations in biological models: from harvesting of species to isolation of infectives, Journal of Mathematical Biology 87, 17 (pp. 1-26). (miami.edu)
  • Spatio-Temporal Dynamics in Disease Ecology and Epidemiology , Mathematical Biosciences Institute, October 14, 2011. (miami.edu)
  • By working at the interface of state-of-the art mathematical process modeling and tree biology, this working group plans to develop a mechanistic dynamic energy budget model to predict the growth and survival of individual tropical trees. (nimbios.org)
  • This course provides an introduction to the calculus of one variable with emphasis on mathematical modelling in the biological sciences. (uoguelph.ca)
  • We constructed a set of mathematical models to describe the trade-off between learning and feeding, and aim to link the theoretical results with activity of grey seals in Scotland. (gla.ac.uk)
  • I am interested in mathematical modelling of infectious diseases. (gla.ac.uk)
  • The general aim of the course is that the students should be able to handle and analyse biological problems that are dependent on mathematical techniques for their solution. (lu.se)
  • Thereafter, applied mathematical methods in biology, with examples from different subject areas such as biochemistry, ecology and physiology, are addressed. (lu.se)
  • Over the last century, leaps in technology for imaging, sampling, detection, high-throughput sequencing, and -omics analyses have revolutionized microbial ecology to enable rapid acquisition of extensive datasets for microbial communities across the ever-increasing temporal and spatial scales. (frontiersin.org)
  • We describe the Framework for Integrated, Conceptual, and Systematic Microbial Ecology (FICSME), an experimental design framework for conducting process-focused microbial ecology studies that incorporates biological, chemical, and physical drivers of a microbial system into a conceptual model. (frontiersin.org)
  • However, the multiscale, stochastic, spatio-temporal, and diverse nature of microbial processes makes it difficult to achieve predictive understanding of microbial systems, despite the large body of microbial ecology research. (frontiersin.org)
  • This disconnect between basic and translational science in microbial ecology stems largely from the intractability of most microbes and microbial communities- in situ in their natural habitat and in the laboratory, due to challenges with cultivation and genetic manipulation. (frontiersin.org)
  • As a result, most of our understanding of microbial ecology is patchwork, synthesized from model microbes that often do not represent the full set of capabilities of the microbial communities associated with real-world phenomena. (frontiersin.org)
  • This Master's programme provides knowledge on current theories on matters concerning water, and assessment of measures that and models of aquatic ecosystems, the relation between watershed, may affect the water environment. (lu.se)
  • The two-year taught MSc programme, the International Master in Marine Biological Resources (IMBRSea), is a joint Master programme organized by ten leading European universities in the field of marine sciences. (gmit.ie)
  • With an emphasis on marine biological and ecological processes, the programme links biology of marine organisms and environmental studies with subjects in marine policy and planning. (gmit.ie)
  • The Swedish Regional Climate Modelling Programme, SWECLIM: A review. (vedur.is)
  • On the Master's programme in Animal Ecology, you will learn how to analyse and understand evolutionary processes at the level of genes, individuals and populations. (lu.se)
  • I am also developing methods and infrastructures that capture and integrate such data to enable inter-disciplinary research for the protection and management of our biological resources in the ocean. (gu.se)
  • The course will emphasize content relevant to analyzing biological systems, and methods will be illustrated by application to biological systems. (uoguelph.ca)
  • The course also contains analytical methods for biological systems. (lu.se)
  • The course may not be included in a degree together with BIOS02 Methods in Modelling Biological Systems 7.5 credits. (lu.se)
  • 2023. Combining community science and MaxEnt modeling to estimate Wild Turkey ( Meleagris gallopavo ) winter abundance and distribution. (ace-eco.org)
  • H. Kang and S. Ruan (2023), Principal spectral theory in multigroup age-structured models with nonlocal diffusion, Calculus of Variations and Partial Differential Equations 62 (7), 197 (pp. 1-60). (miami.edu)
  • G. Zhao and S. Ruan (2023), Spatiotemporal dynamics in epidemic models with Levy Flights: A fractional diffusion approach, Journal de Math\'ematiques Pures et Appliqu\'ees 173, 243-277. (miami.edu)
  • X. Feng, Y. Liu, S. Ruan and J. Yu (2023), Periodic dynamics of a single species model with seasonal Michaelis-Menten type harvesting, Journal of Differential Equations 354, 237-263. (miami.edu)
  • Behavioral Ecology 2023, Epub ahead of print. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • Topics are covered through Thematic Modules in Specialization Tracks to prepare the next generation of scientists who need to understand the marine ecosystem functioning and conservation of biodiversity to work in biological resources exploitation and management. (gmit.ie)
  • I am a veterinary epidemiologist with wide ranging interests in emerging and zoonotic disease, ecology and conservation ecology, and ecosystem health. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Then you will have the possibility to go deeper into biology and ecosystem modelling, courses that builds on your bachelor exam. (lu.se)
  • data), or when these models generate param- tenance host, the great gerbil ( Rhombomys opimus ), in 2 eter estimates that cannot be checked against independent populations in Kazakhstan. (cdc.gov)
  • In this article, we review and update current knowledge about the distribution and spatial spread of the disease, its observed impact on affected host populations, and models to predict its consequences for host population dynamics. (springer.com)
  • I am a wildlife ecologist and field veterinarian, most recently working on modelling the impact of canine distemper (CDV) on wild tiger populations to understand the contribution of domestic and wild carnivores to the CDV reservoir. (gla.ac.uk)
  • We offer an excellent research environment, particularly in topics such as animal migration, molecular ecology, life history trade-offs, evolutionary biology, disease resistance in natural populations and host-parasite interactions. (lu.se)
  • We infer detailed demographic models for populations across Africa, including eastern and western representatives, and newly sequenced whole genomes from 44 Nama (Khoe-San) individuals from southern Africa. (bvsalud.org)
  • In contrast to models with archaic introgression, we predict that fossil remains from coexisting ancestral populations should be genetically and morphologically similar, and that only an inferred 1-4% of genetic differentiation among contemporary human populations can be attributed to genetic drift between stem populations. (bvsalud.org)
  • Because of this, other practices have been developed such as biological control, which consist in the use of pest's natural enemies (e.g. predators, parasitoids) in order to control their populations. (lu.se)
  • Combined, these novel data sources have substantially advanced the understanding of the (macro)ecology and biogeography of biological invasions, and they provide the foundation for exploring future trends of alien species spread and impacts. (uibk.ac.at)
  • I am interested in landscape ecology, avian biogeography, avian acoustics and conservation biology. (xeno-canto.org)
  • My master's thesis consisted in creating a model to assess the efficacy of a biological control agent which lead to my focused interest in this particular system. (lu.se)
  • Biological, environmental and sociological factors all affect discovery probability and together provide strong predictive ability for species discovery. (nature.com)
  • A predictive risk model analysis of the potato cyst nematode Globodera pallida in Idaho. (rodaleinstitute.org)
  • Similarly, future trajectories of biological invasions and the consequences for biodiversity conservation are not fully appreciated. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Finally, I will provide a perspective on priority questions for biodiversity conservation, society and science related to biological invasions. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Biological invasions are major threats to biodiversity and ecosystems. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • The DECIDE project improves models for biodiversity decision-making by putting recorders' motivations at the heart of the process. (ceh.ac.uk)
  • To date, a single study has evaluated the direct impacts of a weaker AMOC on biodiversity using an ecological niche modeling approach on amphibians 15 . (researchsquare.com)
  • This degree aims to provide deep knowledge in the biological oceanography field, as well as preparing human resources for scientific research, university teaching, and non-academic labor market. (furg.br)
  • Preventing or mitigating biological invasions accordingly plays a key role in conservation policies. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • 2019). These difficulties are compounded in the case of biological invasion mitigation, which plays an increasingly important role in numerous conservation policies and strategies (Goodell et al. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • Biological invasion mitigation plays a key role in numerous conservation action plans and environmental policies. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • Avian Conservation and Ecology 18(1):8. (ace-eco.org)
  • The National Plant Monitoring Scheme is a partnership of the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI), the Biological Records Centre (within the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology), Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) and Plantlife. (ceh.ac.uk)
  • I am a researcher working in ecology and conservation genetics. (xeno-canto.org)
  • I am interested in the applications of modelling techniques to conservation and management, particularly in modelling species occurrence, population dynamics and biotic interactions. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Recognition of the suggested new, transdisciplinary logical dimension of ecological processes may provide credibility and support to new initiatives in ecology and its philosophy. (mdpi.com)
  • This will allow us to have a better understanding of biological control processes' and with this, be able to come up with frameworks that will render biological control more efficient in practice. (lu.se)
  • In my research I am establishing and testing harmonized and automated observation systems for biological diversity in the sea, spanning from molecular sensors (i.e. genomic observatories) to human sensors (i.e. citizen science). (gu.se)
  • Whole-genome sequencing of non-model organisms is now widely accessible and has allowed a range of questions in the field of molecular ecology to be investigated with greater power. (lu.se)
  • Molecular Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. (lu.se)
  • Mind your Ps: A probabilistic model to aid the interpretation of molecular epidemiology data. (cdc.gov)
  • Sherratt TN, Dewan I, Skelhorn J. The optimal time to approach an unfamiliar object: a Bayesian model . (ncl.ac.uk)
  • Here we use extensive species-level data in a time-to-event model framework to identify taxonomic and geographic discovery gaps in terrestrial vertebrates. (nature.com)
  • Pour établir la répartition contemporaine du Dindon sauvage ( Meleagris gallopavo ) en Ontario, nous avons extrait et colligé les observations de groupes de dindons provenant d'eBird et d'iNaturalist soumises au cours de l'hiver 2018. (ace-eco.org)
  • While the previous steps of the project were pretty much devoid of ecological reasoning, the literature homework now comes in handy to guide my choices regarding habitat use models, such as selecting environmental predictors of whale occurrence, deciding on what seasons should be modeled, and choosing the spatio-temporal scale at which the data should be aggregated. (oregonstate.edu)
  • Clemson University: College of Science: Biological Sciences Post Doctoral Fellow - Biological Sciences (Forest Ecology and Statistical. (chronicle.com)
  • In addition, students become qualified to pursue graduate studies in any of several areas of study within the Biological Sciences and the health professions. (wiu.edu)
  • Students planning to major in the Biological Sciences should have three years of Mathematics and one year each of Biology, Physics, and Chemistry in high school. (wiu.edu)
  • Through lectures, labs and research projects, you will learn how to use computational and bioinformatic approaches to explore the biological sciences. (concordia.ca)
  • Sabrina E. Russo , Biological Sciences, Univ. (nimbios.org)
  • A general program of biology at the introductory, basic level or a program in biology or the biological sciences that is undifferentiated as to title or content. (myfuture.com)
  • Biological invasions have become a defining feature of global environmental change. (uibk.ac.at)
  • In this talk, I will synthesize key insights into global patterns and drivers of biological invasions. (uibk.ac.at)
  • 2019) A framework for global 21st century scenarios and models of biological invasions. (uibk.ac.at)
  • 2008). Societies and ecosystems face a choice between mitigating biological invasions, or adapting to their mostly deleterious implications (Perrings 2005). (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • Thanks to advances in scientific and digital technologies, we can now collect vast amounts of information about biological systems, revolutionizing our ability to understand the world around us. (concordia.ca)
  • ical Systems, Processing and Analysis of Biological Data. (lu.se)
  • Thus, problems arise when attempts are made parameters for plague caused by Yersinia pestis infection to model plague-flea-rodent systems, which require in its natural reservoirs. (cdc.gov)
  • above Modelling of Dynamic Biological Systems. (shotglass.org)
  • Systems Ecology: an browser. (shotglass.org)
  • Special emphasis is on birds as model systems. (lu.se)
  • Research in the Biology Department at WHOI encompasses a diversity of organisms, levels of biological organization, and approaches. (whoi.edu)
  • Systematics, biology and ecology of marine and estuarine organisms. (furg.br)
  • Ecology is the study of the intricate relationships between organisms and their environment. (creation.com)
  • The study of ecology concerns the relationship of organisms which include both, interactions with each other and with the abiotic environment. (creation.com)
  • My BSc was focused on organisms' biology and ecology while my MSc was focused on evolutionary and functional ecology, more particularly in theory and modelling. (lu.se)
  • The advantage of this method is that it mostly relies on biological interactions between the organisms. (lu.se)
  • Guide to the Global Taxonomy Initiative (Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 2010). (nature.com)
  • I have a main interest in theoretical ecology, specifically in the interspecific interactions on different trophic levels and their effect on community assembly. (lu.se)
  • We fitted 23 cranes with telemetry devices and used remote sensing data to model flood dynamics during three consecutive winters (2012-2015). (nature.com)
  • The aim of my PhD is to assess, through modelling, the effects that these eco-evolutionary dynamics (i.e. demographic and evolutionary dynamics) have on biological pest control. (lu.se)
  • Visit the Biological Records Centre for a guide to getting started with biological recording . (ceh.ac.uk)
  • and the effective integration of this sophisticated behavioral information into computational epidemiological models. (gla.ac.uk)
  • Applied computational science can be divided into several components: mathematics, modelling, statistics, and programming. (lu.se)
  • It is supported by fourteen Marine Research Institutes belonging to the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC). (gmit.ie)
  • Rapid in situ identification of biological specimens via DNA amplicon sequencing using miniaturized laboratory equipment. (cdc.gov)
  • We combined these with environmental predictors to build distribution models using MaxEnt and evaluated model fit using 10-fold cross validation. (ace-eco.org)
  • The model will simulate plant growth and survival based on measured functional trait values and responses to environmental variation, including irradiance, soil moisture and nutrients, and temperature. (nimbios.org)
  • The model will enable prediction of (1) species distributions based on differences in performance of trees in response to variation in resources, such as along natural environmental gradients and (2) responses of trees to environmental shifts caused by global change. (nimbios.org)
  • I compiled several million GPS trackline positions, processed hundreds of marine mammal observations, wrote several thousand lines of R code, downloaded and extracted a couple Gb of environmental data… before finally reaching the modeling phase of the OPAL project. (oregonstate.edu)
  • With a minimalist model of metabolism, cell growth and transcriptional regulation in a microorganism, we explore how the interaction between environmental conditions and gene regulation set the growth rate of cells in the phase of exponential growth. (lu.se)
  • In general, it is impossible to separate environmental factors from biological factors, as can be seen from interrelationships in nature that play a significant role in the emergence of infectious diseases. (who.int)
  • Despite broad agreement that Homo sapiens originated in Africa, considerable uncertainty surrounds specific models of divergence and migration across the continent1. (bvsalud.org)
  • MacArthur (1957, 1961), was one of the earliest to express dissatisfaction with purely statistical models, presenting instead 3 mechanistic niche apportionment models. (wikipedia.org)
  • This paper lays the biblical foundation for an ecological model, summarizes creationist research directly related to ecology, and incorporates an analysis of orchid mychorrizal symbioses. (creation.com)
  • Mechanistic models for niche apportionment are biological models used to explain relative species abundance distributions. (wikipedia.org)
  • These mechanistic models provide a useful starting point for describing the species composition of communities. (wikipedia.org)
  • The mechanistic models that describe these plots work under the assumption that rank abundance plots are based on a rigorous estimate of the abundances of individuals within species and that these measures represent the actual species abundance distribution. (wikipedia.org)
  • Seven mechanistic models that describe niche apportionment are described below. (wikipedia.org)
  • One of the greatest unknowns is the complexity of the physiological responses of trees as there are no comprehensive mechanistic models to predict how physiological functions are integrated within a tree to influence its growth and survival. (nimbios.org)
  • Ecology and sustainability are current narratives about the behavior of humans toward themselves and the environment. (mdpi.com)
  • And with it, finally comes the time to look more closely at the ecology and behavior of my species of interest. (oregonstate.edu)
  • As such, we tested the effect of data cleaning on model outputs and on subsequent analyses. (ace-eco.org)
  • Use of community collected data offers a cost-efficient and collaborative method to obtain data for species distribution modeling and management. (ace-eco.org)
  • Mark-recapture analysis and a preliminary epidemiological model developed for the population with the best longitudinal data both project local extinction in that area over a timeframe of 10 to 15 years from disease emergence. (springer.com)
  • We will test this model by comparing predicted trends in functional traits, growth, and survival along resource availability gradients with data for Bornean and Bolivian tree species. (nimbios.org)
  • Hierarchical Modelling of Species Communities (HMSC) is a model-based approach for analyzing community ecological data (Ovaskainen et a.2017a). (helsinki.fi)
  • During this period, you would be surprised to know how little ecology I have actually done and how much time has been devoted to data processing! (oregonstate.edu)
  • However, some genomic regions that are of high biological interest remain problematic for assembly and data-handling. (lu.se)
  • Limnology and Marine Ecology - Or- passport) and how you need to submit them at www.univer- ganism and Habitats (15 ECTS credits), Limnology and Marine sityadmissions.se. (lu.se)
  • classification and mapping of bottom biotope distribution, modeling and verification of physical bottom habitats. (io-bas.bg)
  • The principle effort at the DEB Model for Trees Working Group meeting was directed toward building a complete mechanistic whole-tree dynamic energy budget model that will enable powerful predictions of tree species' responses to climate change and transform our understanding of functional integration and trade-offs in trees. (nimbios.org)
  • A secondary focus of the meeting was the identification and discussion of a variety of questions that the model could be used to address and discussed the trade-offs in function that would need to be incorporated into the model to address those questions. (nimbios.org)
  • These findings highlight the importance of international policy support for basic taxonomic research and the potential of quantitative models to aid species discovery. (nature.com)
  • It is hoped that further investigation into the beautiful complexities of this world will instil an attitude of profound love for the Creator and encourage research that will develop a more viable, and uniquely biblical, creation model of ecology. (creation.com)
  • IMBRSea covers a range of subjects within marine science and marine biological resources. (gmit.ie)
  • Marine ecosystems provide a large amount of essential goods and services to our society and the quality of these products often directly depends on the biological diversity in these environments. (gu.se)