• The size structure varied among reef habitats with higher proportions of larger colonies in calm nearshore reefs (fringing and patch reefs), while populations were dominated by smaller colonies in the exposed fore reefs. (plos.org)
  • Clearly the gradual drying of the Sahara over the last 10,000 years has marooned an entire community of animals and plants on the high mountains here, and there are many genetically distinct species and populations. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • Each drainage system and each wadi appears to contain a unique community of animals and plants, and many populations appear to have evolved semi-independently (as assessed by genetic differentiation. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • Among these influences, diet and living conditions have been evaluated for human and animal populations, entailing significant effects on gut microbiota and consequences for human and animal health. (nature.com)
  • Genomic prediction (GP) across different populations and environments should be enhanced to increase the efficiency of crop breeding. (mdpi.com)
  • Yields of the four hybrid populations were evaluated in three environments. (mdpi.com)
  • We demonstrated by using real data that the prediction accuracies of GP across structured hybrid populations were lower than those of within-population GP. (mdpi.com)
  • Including relatives of the validation population in the training population could increase the prediction accuracies of GP across structured hybrid populations drastically. (mdpi.com)
  • This programme will entail collection, analysis, interpretation and exchange of appropriate information on animal and human populations at risk of disease, on animal husbandry practices and the environment, as well as on the impact of these diseases on human and animal health and national economy, which will assist in determining the cost-effectiveness of surveillance and control programmes. (who.int)
  • Factors that have contributed to these increasing trends are, inter alia , changing patterns of wildlife populations, intensive animal production practices, and globalization of the food industry with its changing patterns of food production, storage and distribution. (who.int)
  • Similarly, the control strategies and pre-pandemic risk assessments could not be well featured without structured and efficient surveillance of animal populations, which is for the benefit of both animal and human health. (who.int)
  • We conducted participant-observation and semi-structured interviews among people living near these great apes to understand better their feeding habits and habitats. (nature.com)
  • An exploratory and qualitative study was conducted with semi-structured interviews with eight individuals in a common-law marriage. (bvsalud.org)
  • According to killer whales animal behavior, seasonal movements are influenced by the migration of its prey. (brighthub.com)
  • Synanthropic behavior, i.e., the behavior of wild animals that benefit from a shared ecology with humans, has existed long before the sedentarization of Homo sapiens during the Neolithic, around 10,000 years ago. (springer.com)
  • This study describes and discusses the concept of an older animal-human relationship: paleo-synanthropic behavior and the associated paleo-synanthropic niche. (springer.com)
  • By linking the niche to human behavior rather than to a specific location or structure, this niche was accessible for a long time, even in the Late Pleistocene. (springer.com)
  • Synanthropism refers to a behavior of free-ranging animals (or plants) benefiting from the shared ecology with humans (Klegarth 2016 ). (springer.com)
  • Students will learn about how animals use behavior to respond to environmental stimuli that allow them to survive and reproduce. (knowitall.org)
  • The 58 contributions focus particularly on well-defined models, computer simulations, and built robots in order to help characterize and compare various principles and architectures capable of inducing adaptive behavior in real or artificial animals. (mit.edu)
  • 6.L.4 The student will demonstrate an understanding of how scientists classify organisms and how the structures, processes, behaviors, and adaptations of animals allow them to survive. (knowitall.org)
  • FTF investments in agriculture policy, advocacy support, and research will fund key institutions to carry out actionable research leading to improved land, soil, and water resource management and use and agronomic practices and more productive animal husbandry. (who.int)
  • BP, changes in woodland composition and structure are evident which coincide with a change in subsistence strategy, that is, the adoption of animal husbandry. (lu.se)
  • This, in turn, made it easier for humans to capture these animals and use them as resources for meat, fur, or feathers, as seen in the zooarchaeological record of many European Late Pleistocene sites. (springer.com)
  • The inextricable link between humans and animals in Africa can lead to a serious risk to public health given that the majority of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases have originated from animals. (who.int)
  • Students also learn why engineers need to know about animals and how they use that knowledge to design technologies that help other animals and/or humans. (oercommons.org)
  • Trees produce the oxygen that humans and other animals need to breathe and absorb the carbon dioxide that they exhale. (ft.lk)
  • In collaboration with FAO and the Office international des Epizooties , WHO should update and review existing lists of reportable diseases common to humans and animals. (who.int)
  • Currently, amongst the various family arrangements, the multi-species family, composed of both humans and animals are growing in the social environment. (bvsalud.org)
  • Three human cases were confirmed by polymerase chain reaction, and subsequent serological investigations revealed an overall IgG seropositivity of 13% in humans and 13% in animals. (cdc.gov)
  • Key features of this new niche are anthropogenic food waste from mobile hunter-gatherers as a stable food base for small opportunistic scavengers and a human-near environment safe from large predators. (springer.com)
  • Meanwhile, the home range decreases as the animals feed on the monopolized, centralized anthropogenic resources (Gehrt et al. (springer.com)
  • Anthropogenic activities transform tropical environments into semi-natural landscapes generating a great amount of forest edge that limits with pastures and agricultural lands. (mongabay.com)
  • Coral reefs exhibit a remarkable diversity of organisms that reside within highly variable environments resulting in strong spatial variability in species' distribution patterns [ 1 ]. (plos.org)
  • Relationships of organisms with each other and with their environment. (northpark.edu)
  • 6.L.4B The Animal Kingdom includes a diversity of organisms that have many characteristics in common. (knowitall.org)
  • Ecology== Describe any interactions with other organisms (included eukaryotes), contributions to the environment, effect on environment, etc. (kenyon.edu)
  • In conclusion it was possible to define a preliminary scenario of the different effects that CB litter can cause to different key organisms in aquatic environments, underlining the importace of monitoring of this "emerging pollutant" in both internal and coastal areas. (easychair.org)
  • They are a group of organisms that are environmentally important, such as saprophytes and mutualists, but are pathogens for animals, especially plants. (intechopen.com)
  • An introduction to the physiological basis of animal behaviour will include chemical ecology, orientation and senses, biological rhythms and the genetics of behaviour. (waikato.ac.nz)
  • The breakthrough in imaging the nervous system of a hydra - a tiny, transparent creature related to jellyfish - as it twitches and moves has provided insights into how such simple animals control their behaviour. (newscientist.com)
  • The course consists of a series of sections which from both a theoretical and practical perspective treat different organizational levels, including cell- and molecular biology of the sensory cells, function of sensory organs, nervous system structure and its processing and integration of sensory information, and how sensory biology affect animal adaptation, behaviour and interactions with the environment (sensory ecology). (lu.se)
  • The Web of Life" - Interaction Between Animals and Ecosystems - starting with a diorama of the ecosystem created by the Acacia tree, showing inter-relations and connections between different animals, plants and their ecosystems. (wikipedia.org)
  • Explain the importance of the interrelationships between various components of a natural environment within an ecosystem. (edu.au)
  • Students consider why a solid understanding of one's environment and the interdependence of an ecosystem can inform the choices we make and the way we engineer our own communities. (oercommons.org)
  • The game has two kinds of simulations: one where you control microbes and another where you control an animal and plant ecosystem. (commonsensemedia.org)
  • This ecosystem game has predators eating prey but all that you see is the animal stalking the prey and then a whirlwind of dust. (commonsensemedia.org)
  • In LIFEBOAT TO MARS, kids join a spaceship mission to Mars to deliver microbes and a variety of plants and animals needed to start an ecosystem. (commonsensemedia.org)
  • This lesson is part of a series of six lessons in which students use their growing understanding of various environments and the engineering design process, to design and create their own model biodome ecosystems. (oercommons.org)
  • In this multi-day activity, students explore environments, ecosystems, energy flow and organism interactions by creating a scale model biodome, following the steps of the engineering design process. (oercommons.org)
  • You have to ask: is this an animal that's going to join the fruit fly, worm and mouse as a model organism to look at in the quest to better understand the nervous system? (newscientist.com)
  • How do animals respond (including hibernation, migration, grouping, and courtship) to environmental stimuli that allow them to survive and reproduce? (knowitall.org)
  • 6.L.4B.3 Construct explanations of how animal responses (including hibernation, migration, grouping, and courtship) to environmental stimuli allow them to survive and reproduce. (knowitall.org)
  • Unifying these approaches is the notion of "animat"-an artificial animal, either simulated by a computer or embodied in a robot, which must survive and adapt in progressively more challenging environments. (mit.edu)
  • Activity in both interneuron classes was strongly suppressed but recovered as animals learned to adapt the previously learned task to the new spatial context. (elifesciences.org)
  • Surprisingly, although there was a range of activity suppression across the population, individual somatostatin-expressing interneurons showed consistent levels of activity modulation across exposure to multiple novel environments, suggesting context-independent, stable network roles during spatial exploration. (elifesciences.org)
  • The Human Impact - an interactive exhibition showing mainly the negative human impact on the environment (pollution, destruction of habitats, invasive species, over-fishing etc). (wikipedia.org)
  • Today's urban landscape includes not only cars, bicycles, and pedestrians, but also various mammals and birds that seem to thrive in our human-made environment. (springer.com)
  • The former refers to the food resources that are available to the synanthropes, and the latter refers to the security provided by the human environment. (springer.com)
  • If the environmental component, i.e., the use of human-made structures, such as buildings or cities, is to be emphasized, then one can speak of environmental synanthropism (O'Connor 2013 ), although this does not preclude synanthropic animals from falling into both categories. (springer.com)
  • Serratia are widespread in the environment, but are not a common component of the human fecal flora. (medscape.com)
  • The location of the site indicates that these first walking apes were forest dwellers and ate a herbivorous diet augmented by the protein in arthropods and other very small animals, like all of today's non-human apes. (sciforums.com)
  • Finally, they explore human impact on the environment, particularly as related to trash and recycling. (carolina.com)
  • Across the globe, scientists, international health organizations and governments are disturbed at the increasing threat that pervasive animal diseases pose to human civilization. (thetrumpet.com)
  • Human, animal, plant hosts? (kenyon.edu)
  • Human-Environment Dynamics Through the Holocene in the Mourne Region, Northern Ireland. (qub.ac.uk)
  • Comparisons of mammalian gut microbiota across different environmental conditions shed light on the diversity and composition of gut bacteriome and suggest consequences for human and animal health. (nature.com)
  • Health threats such as epidemics and pandemics do not happen in isolation, and a whole health approach is essential for effectively detecting and responding to public health threats in the animal-human-environment interface. (who.int)
  • Doctors and One Health is a multisectoral and interdisciplinary veterinarians have important roles to play in monitoring, approach - at the regional, national and global level planning, detecting, teaching, sharing information - to achieve the best health outcomes, recognizing and policy-making related to diseases and response to the interconnectedness of human, animal, plant life disease threats. (who.int)
  • In order to evaluate the role of environmental change for human activity, evidence for coinciding shifts in palaeoclimate records and their potential implication for human-environment interactions are discussed and generally support the idea that environmental changes played an important role for the cultural development during the Neolithic in Northern Germany. (lu.se)
  • Urban societies, on the other hand, are characterized by higher population density and an environment that provides basic facilities for human activity. (lu.se)
  • Soil quality and management practices that enhance nutrient efficiency, are protective of the environment, and improve product quality in agricultural systems are emphasized. (msu.edu)
  • Environment and development: challenges, policies and practices. (cardiff.ac.uk)
  • There's a useful folder structure in http://devmag.org.za/2012/07/12/50-tips-for-working-with-unity-best-practices/ , but I think it works better for smaller projects. (unity.com)
  • With this change, an entire body of knowledge about the environment and sustainable land management practices is being lost. (lu.se)
  • Fungi, an important group with a wide variety of species, shows spectacular development with their unique cell structures. (intechopen.com)
  • Fungi basically have two different cell structures: yeast, and molds. (intechopen.com)
  • The museum is set for the discovery, collections development and care, and scientific categorization of millions of specimens, documenting the flora and fauna in Israel and the Middle East for thousands of years, as well as the history of humankind and its interactions with the environment. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this review, we lay out how community bioacoustics (the study of acoustic community structure and dynamics), has value in ecological monitoring and conservation of diverse landscapes and taxa. (frontiersin.org)
  • While the fire coral Millepora platyphylla is an important component of Indo-Pacific reefs, where it thrives in a wide range of environments, the ecological and biological processes driving its distribution and population structure are not well understood. (plos.org)
  • The diversity of animal acoustic signals has evolved due to multiple ecological processes, both biotic and abiotic. (frontiersin.org)
  • Next, we highlight how spatiotemporal ecological change is reflected in acoustic community structure, and the potential this presents in monitoring and conservation. (frontiersin.org)
  • The term "acoustic community structure" ( Table 1 ) adapts the concept of ecological community structure, employing acoustic parameters and signaling activity as measurable traits to examine the distribution of sound-producing species in signal space, together with measures of species composition and phylogenetic diversity. (frontiersin.org)
  • Here, we discuss how ecological processes drive acoustic community structure, and propose using acoustic communities to track ecological change. (frontiersin.org)
  • Transient whales may prey on different animals than resident whales and may use varying techniques to capture their prey. (brighthub.com)
  • 5. The size of a cachalot alone is enough to deter most would-be predators but there is one animal that will prey on them regularly. (funtrivia.com)
  • Three birds can be seen flying overhead and two smaller animals can be seen behind the beasts of prey. (livescience.com)
  • A national surveillance programme closely associating veterinary and medical surveillance systems should be established to enable assessment of the burden of zoonoses and animal-related hazards. (who.int)
  • Continued concern about these chemicals is because of their persistence in the environment and accumulation in wildlife and the animal food chain. (cdc.gov)
  • Everything was created perfect, including the health of every plant and animal. (thetrumpet.com)
  • A nature park can be any area that aims to preserve a natural environment or natural plant and animal life. (edu.au)
  • Grade K. Students explore the structures, needs, and life cycles of plants and animals. (carolina.com)
  • Grade K. Children are naturally curious about plants and animals. (carolina.com)
  • But despite an innate inquisitiveness about plants and animals, children don't often consider that these wonders of nature are all living things just like they are with definable traits, common activities, shared and unique needs, and a dependence on a particular environment. (carolina.com)
  • Subjects include energy flow and food chains, basic needs of plants and animals, and the importance of decomposers. (oercommons.org)
  • Faculty in this area work to protect and improve the quality of our soil resources through a fundamental understanding of the basic chemical, physical and biological processes in the soil environment. (msu.edu)
  • [ 7 ] Serratia are capable of thriving in diverse environments, including water, soil, and the digestive tracts of various animals. (medscape.com)
  • 2 WHO, Multidisease Surveillance Centre, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, http://www.who.int/csr/disease/meningococcal/epidemiological/en/index.html (last accessed 30/03/10). (who.int)
  • CDC uses SEDRIC to coordinate surveillance and response to disease outbreaks linked to food or animal contact, including data integration. (cdc.gov)
  • In public health surveillance systems, an isolate can come from a patient's clinical sample or from the environment, a food, or animal. (cdc.gov)
  • Deadly animal diseases harm our food supply. (thetrumpet.com)
  • No wonder that nations would spend millions to destroy animals, risking the stability of their economies and rendering thousands of farmers jobless: These diseases have a greater potential for destruction than the public generally realizes. (thetrumpet.com)
  • So why are animal diseases like mad cow and avian flu becoming a growing threat to our health and well-being? (thetrumpet.com)
  • How did a perfect living environment degenerate to the point where vast deserts, deadly diseases and widespread environmental destruction are the norm? (thetrumpet.com)
  • The main cause of the pervasiveness of these animal diseases and environmental degeneration lies within mankind itself. (thetrumpet.com)
  • A roofed structure eliminates runoff and increases control over manure. (iastate.edu)
  • Classification of animals is based on structures that function in growth, reproduction, and survival. (knowitall.org)
  • Students are introduced to the classification of animals and animal interactions. (oercommons.org)
  • On each transect I measured 12 environmental variables describing the microclimate, vegetation structure, topography and distance to forest edge and streams to evaluate the main correlation patterns among microhabitat variables and herpetofaunal species composition and diversity. (mongabay.com)
  • Similarly, when two or more people get the same illness from contact with the same animal or animal environment, the event is called a zoonotic outbreak. (cdc.gov)
  • while establishing a set of appropriate protective measures for people, animals, the landscape, air quality and water. (rhb.ch)
  • In addition, animal-associated infections (caused by, for example, Toxoplasma gondii , Listeria monocytogenes ) have been reported in people at increased risk because of deficiencies in the normal immune response as a result of immunosuppressive drugs, cancer or HIV infection. (who.int)
  • One Health is a multisectoral and interdisciplinary concept that acknowledges the interconnections between people, animals and their shared environments. (who.int)
  • The lifestyles resulting from these conditions naturally affect what people tend to talk about, which cultural artifacts are regarded as important, as well as certain social structures. (lu.se)
  • Achieving the SDGs and reversing desertification in dryland areas like Northern Kenya calls for innovative solutions that work for both people and the environment. (lu.se)
  • The number of people and animals has exploded so that there just isn't enough grass to go around. (lu.se)
  • An area that was once home to 50 people now has up to 2000 residents - all vying for the same patch of grass to feed their animals. (lu.se)
  • PCBs enter the food chain by a variety of routes, including migration into food from external sources, contamination of animal feeds, and accumulation in the fatty tissues of animals. (cdc.gov)
  • This information provides the public, academia, industry, public health partners and regulatory agencies with timely data on pathogen trends and serotype details to inform work to prevent illnesses from food, water, the environment, and animal contact. (cdc.gov)
  • A healthy environment provides nutrients that flow up the food chain, from plants to animals, to provide energy. (ft.lk)
  • FTF Program Area 3 activities will be integrated in the value chain support in order to expand the capacity of civil society groups to analyze and advocate for policy reforms (e.g., in regard to rice pricing and sanitary and food safety standards for food and meat processing) and to help create a more market-friendly policies and an improved trading environment for Liberian smallholders. (who.int)
  • Rural societies are characterized by lower population density in which the most important economic activities involve the production food and raw materials in a somewhat natural environment. (lu.se)
  • Another way is to divide cultures between sedentary agricultural societies, which would apply to all societies in which the economy is based on producing and maintaining crops and farmland, and hunter-gatherer societies, which refer to societies that get most of their food by hunting wild animals and gathering edible wild plants. (lu.se)
  • Depending on the temperature of the environment they are in, they can be found in yeast or mold structures, and fungi with this feature are called dimorphic fungi. (intechopen.com)
  • This, the authors suggest, helped create the misconception crustaceans lack the structures altogether. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Lastly, there is a lack of research with couples with pets and without children in the Brazillian environment, so further research in this area is needed. (bvsalud.org)
  • Hoop structures can be an option for beef production that can help to avoid some pollution control issues while providing a suitable environment for efficient growth. (iastate.edu)
  • New research shows that crustaceans such as shrimps, lobsters and crabs have more in common with their insect relatives than previously thought -- when it comes to the structure of their brains. (sciencedaily.com)
  • The research, published in the open-access journal eLife , challenges a widely held belief in the scientific community that these brain structures -- called "mushroom bodies" -- are conspicuously absent from crustacean brains. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Decades of research has untangled arthropods' evolutionary relationships using morphological, molecular and genetic data, as well as evidence from the structure of their brains. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Their brains (about five times the size of a human's) are not just huge because they are big animals. (funtrivia.com)
  • The hydra is now the first animal to have one of these maps created for the whole body, although the activity of the whole brains of zebrafish have also been mapped in a similar way. (newscientist.com)
  • Indoor reactions are initiated mainly by ozone, a pollutant, which is transported from the outdoor environment into the indoor environment by building ventilation. (cdc.gov)
  • Lifeboat to Mars lets kids learn about biology in a fun, encouraging, and interactive environment. (commonsensemedia.org)
  • For example, modellers often try pharmacokinetic model, particularly a physiologically several alternative structures as they attempt to reconcile based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model, to contribute to a the available data and the description of the biology in risk assessment. (cdc.gov)
  • Conserving Egypt's reptiles under climate change Journal of Arid Environments. (nottingham.ac.uk)
  • sharing the table") is more likely to describe a + /0 relationship between an animal and its host (Johnson et al. (springer.com)
  • Genome structure== Describe the size and content of the genome. (kenyon.edu)
  • This work reveals population-level temporally dynamic interneuron activity in new environments, within which each interneuron shows stable and consistent activity modulation. (elifesciences.org)
  • These studies found transient suppression in firing of fast-spiking units during exploration of novel environments, consistent with a model in which decreased inhibition is permissive for excitatory plasticity and downstream learning. (elifesciences.org)
  • Characterized by their external skeletons and jointed appendages, arthropods make up the most species-rich group of animals known, populating almost every conceivable habitat. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Both insects and crustaceans possess mushroom-shaped brain structures known in insects to be required for learning, memory and possibly negotiating complex, three-dimensional environments, according to the study, led by University of Arizona neuroscientist Nicholas Strausfeld. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Using a complex system of mechanized doors, keepers hope to herd the animals toward the cages at night. (indianapolismonthly.com)
  • This suggests the animal has evolved distinct networks for each reflex - a primitive arrangement, much less complex than our own interconnected nervous systems. (newscientist.com)
  • Animals exploit soft structures to move smoothly and effectively in complex natural environments. (findaphd.com)
  • This complex of stone structures sprawls over 120 hectares (about 300 acres) and dates back around 1,500 years. (livescience.com)
  • Whether it is yeast, mold, or dimorphic fungi, they use their enzymes with high activity to benefit from the nutrients in the environment. (intechopen.com)
  • These investigative efforts have produced many important insights into a chemical's fate in the indoor environment, possible new sampling techniques and identification of chemical structures that could lead to health effects. (cdc.gov)
  • We should not depend too much on concrete structures and all sort of chemicals. (ft.lk)
  • Consumer products used in indoor environments for cleaning, surface finishing and deodorizing are typically mixtures of many chemicals. (cdc.gov)
  • Terpenes can react with components in the indoor environment to form new chemicals that might be the irritants responsible for the observed increases in work-related asthma. (cdc.gov)
  • To address this research question, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) has developed expertise in investigating the fundamental chemistry of several chemicals in consumer products that may be used in an indoor environment. (cdc.gov)
  • Form and Function - an exhibition showing how the body of animals is adapted to their function. (wikipedia.org)
  • This paper is an integrated theoretical and experimental study of the principles of animal structure and function. (waikato.ac.nz)
  • Relationships between structure and function. (northpark.edu)
  • There are various types of birds and animals. (ft.lk)
  • Central to the mission of most veterinary public health organizations and services are the needs to assess and manage animal-related public health risks and to communicate these risks to the parties concerned. (who.int)
  • Overbuilt environments disrupt and overwhelm nature's processes by removing trees and polluting the water and air, which leads to decreased biodiversity and overall natural health. (ft.lk)
  • A structure at the national level should be established to coordinate veterinary public health activities. (who.int)
  • The possible answers to these questions might be found in investigating the chemistry of volatile organic compounds found in the indoor environment, developing new sampling methods, and improving assessments of chemical health effects. (cdc.gov)
  • Between-patch isolation and within-patch edge effects modify animal community structure and movements. (mongabay.com)
  • It is we who destroy the environment and make even the animals also suffer. (ft.lk)
  • Life in the Dark - animals that live without daylight Urban Nature - wild animals living in the city Israel's Landscapes - several flat dioramas of natural habitats in Israel and their common fauna, including desert, sand & dunes, forests, fresh waters and the Mount Hermon's alpine climate, with stuffed and mounted animals. (wikipedia.org)
  • Like modern synanthropic animals, members of the paleo-synanthropic niche experienced an increase in population density and a decrease in home range. (springer.com)
  • This study reports the first evidence of population structure of fire corals in two common reef environments and illustrates the importance of water flow in driving population dynamic processes of these reef-building species. (plos.org)
  • Recent research by other scientists has also shown that those circuits interact with other brain centers in strengthening or reducing the importance of a recollection as the animal gathers experiences from its environment. (sciencedaily.com)
  • Hoop buildings can provide significant advantages over open lot facilities for finishing beef in terms of animal environment and environmental protection. (iastate.edu)