• 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)
  • We first set different ecological criteria (i.e. species resilience, vulnerability and trophic level) to identify optimal areas for conservation and restoration efforts, which was based on a traditional conservationist approach. (nature.com)
  • One such criterion could be the simple identification of the main habitats used by a single species of ecological interest. (nature.com)
  • A likely better alternative for choosing areas to be protected is to spatially identify ecological and/or biological criteria that could help replenish a variety of relevant species simultaneously. (nature.com)
  • Bioinformatics provides the tools to understand complex biological systems ranging from entire ecological systems to specific human diseases, to cellular and molecular networks. (memphis.edu)
  • Models of animal and plant populations can help predict ecological interactions and population dynamics. (sciencenews.org)
  • This working group will address this substantial ambiguity by formally linking ecological theory on species interactions to empirical species' distribution models. (nimbios.org)
  • We will synthesize the conditions under which species interactions act synergistically with other ecological factors to bias SDMs. (nimbios.org)
  • However, the presence of refuges, where intermediate-level species are protected from predation, may reduce the ecological impact of a trophic cascade. (scirp.org)
  • Vasas, V. and Jordan, F. (2006) Topological Keystone Species in Ecological Interaction Networks: Considering Link Quality and Nontrophic Effects. (scirp.org)
  • Ecological Modelling, 196, 365-378. (scirp.org)
  • Understanding the tempo and mode of species diversification and concomitant ecological divergence has been a long-sought goal in evolutionary biology. (europa.eu)
  • This represents a novel application of a common ecological model to a problem in environmental and infectious disease epidemiology. (cdc.gov)
  • Mechanistic models are commonly used to acquire insights about the biochemical reaction networks that govern cellular processes inside a cell. (biorxiv.org)
  • Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) modelling refers to the development and evaluation of mathematical descriptions of the ADME of chemicals in biota based on proven/hypothetical mechanistic determinants [21]. (cdc.gov)
  • The application of a mechanistic modelling framework for the analysis of the system seems fitting, but it requires the derivation of a few model entities with a clear functional role. (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)
  • We propose a spatial framework to help researchers and managers determine optimal conservation areas in a multi-species fishery, while also considering the economic relevance these species may have in a given society, even in data poor situations. (nature.com)
  • 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)
  • The introduction of some flexibility in the way conservation targets are established could contribute to reaching a middle ground where biological concerns are integrated with economic demands from the fishing sector. (nature.com)
  • To date most approaches in marine conservation are based on identifying the habitat requirements of one species at a time, which is known as the single-species approach. (nature.com)
  • However, vulnerable habitats based on one or multiple species rarely become protected areas or achieve any sort of conservation status mostly due to conflicting interests with human activities, especially fishing 7 . (nature.com)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • Species abundances directly affect the functioning of an ecosystem and its conservation value. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • 2013) and modeled shortfalls of the funds needed for biodiversity conservation (e.g. (researchgate.net)
  • 2012 estimate that the annual cost of conservation action for threatened bird species in Bhutan is between USD 2392 and 5961/km 2 /year). (researchgate.net)
  • Epigenetic aging models, particularly epigenetic clocks (ECs), promise to improve the aging of wild animals and thereby make valuable contributions to wildlife conservation and population biology 4 , 6 . (nature.com)
  • The Edward J. Meeman Biological Station is the department's primary field research and teaching venue for ecology, environmental biology, and natural history. (memphis.edu)
  • Species have strong indirect effects on others, and predicting these effects is a central challenge in ecology. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • Quantifying patterns of temporal trends in species assemblages is an important analytical challenge in community ecology. (harvard.edu)
  • One of the fundamental challenges in ecology is to predict species' geographic distributions. (nimbios.org)
  • These models will enable examining hitherto untestable classic evolutionary hypotheses in a formal framework on the feedback between diversification and niche evolution, at the intersection of ecology and evolutionary biology. (europa.eu)
  • The relationship between human beings and invasive species is, however, complex, not unequivocal, and presents a variety of moral aspects. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • The practical and ethical reasons used to champion actions targeting populations of invasive species are questioned both in the literature and by actors and stakeholders in the field. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • Invasive species are " alien species whose introduction does or is likely to cause economic or environmental harm or harm to human health " (Beck et al. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • Invasive species relative abundance consistently increased along the gradient of land-use intensity. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The Nordic collections are used today primarily to clarify which species have been present at a certain place at a certain time, for example, to be able to study how changes in the environment and climate have affected the flora over the past 200 years and to document newly immigrated potentially invasive species. (lu.se)
  • We applied a hierarchical model to camera- and live-trapping data from a region in Borneo, and estimated the relative abundance (controlling for imperfect detection) of 57 terrestrial mammal species, as a function of either categorical or continuous metrics of land-use change. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • BAR HARBOR, ME, UNITED STATES - Jan 15, 2020 - The study of therapies and interventions to expand healthy human lifespan has been limited by a lack of animal models: traditional vertebrate models such as the mouse live too long to get rapid results, while the most popular model, a roundworm called C.elegans that lives for only three weeks, is rungs away from humans on the evolutionary ladder. (mdibl.org)
  • 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)
  • I will highlight likely future consequences of invasions and discuss the human dimension in alien species spread and impacts. (uibk.ac.at)
  • 2019) A framework for global 21st century scenarios and models of biological invasions. (uibk.ac.at)
  • Biological invasions are major threats to biodiversity and ecosystems. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • 2008). Societies and ecosystems face a choice between mitigating biological invasions, or adapting to their mostly deleterious implications (Perrings 2005). (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • Biological Invasions. (cal-ipc.org)
  • From economics and business to the biological sciences to physics and engineering, professionals successfully use the powerful mathematical tool of optimal control to make management and strategy decisions. (taylorfrancis.com)
  • 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)
  • Strickler, a UWM and Shaw Distinguished Professor of biological sciences, has accomplished much of the work with the aid of high-speed video with optical systems he often has designed himself. (uwm.edu)
  • Professor Jeremy S Webb is Professor of Microbiology within Biological Sciences at the University of Southampton. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Biological Sciences, University of Southampton, UK. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Director of the Graduate School of Biological Sciences. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • BSc (Hons) Biological Sciences. (southampton.ac.uk)
  • Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London: series B, biological sciences 356(1558): 3621-3631. (harvard.edu)
  • William Godsoe (School of Biological Sciences, Univ. (nimbios.org)
  • Candidates who do not comply with the minimum admission requirements for BSc (Entomology), may be considered for admission to the BSc - Extended programme for the Biological and Agricultural Sciences. (up.ac.za)
  • The method applies Bayesian probabilistic model to analyze scattering data from mixtures of oligomeric species, allows for a modeling large structural ensembles, can be used to assess uncertainty of all parameters and minimizes over-fitting. (lu.se)
  • As part of this research, Dr. Ainsworth and his students employ a variety of statistical and numerical simulation models to characterize trophic linkages in marine ecosystems, habitat use by fish and invertebrates, and the influence of physical oceanography on the distribution of marine life. (usf.edu)
  • Based on the frequency of occurrence of molecular fragments (CH3, CH2, CH, C, C¼C, H, benzene ring and H in benzene ring structure) and exposure conditions, the available QSAR-PBPK models facilitate the simulation of tissue and blood concentrations for some inhaled volatile organic chemicals. (cdc.gov)
  • It is supported by fourteen Marine Research Institutes belonging to the European Marine Biological Resource Centre (EMBRC). (gmit.ie)
  • Using blood and biopsy samples from known age plains zebras ( Equus quagga ), we model epigenetic aging using two approaches: the epigenetic clock (EC) and the epigenetic pacemaker (EPM). (nature.com)
  • On the basis of this model we employed computational simulations to better understand the behavior of action potentials, calcium handling and insulin secretion in human β cells under a wide range of experimental conditions. (nih.gov)
  • That is, both memory and computational effort scale exponentially in the number of species. (biorxiv.org)
  • The primary challenge associated with models based on the CME is the large computational cost. (biorxiv.org)
  • For a direct solver, the computational effort and memory requirements increase exponentially with the number of species, limiting such simulations to relatively small systems. (biorxiv.org)
  • This is presumably attributable to the inherent computational and mathematical challenges to develop process-generating models that would couple diversification and niche evolutionary dynamics and the limited availability of extensive and comparable datasets to characterize niches over large radiations integrating neontological and paleontological data. (europa.eu)
  • To overcome this problem we develop a method that combines a computational structural modeling (which delivers atomic-resolution structures) with experimental data (which provides information about the population of different states). (lu.se)
  • Many biological processes depend on chemical reactions that are localized in space and time and therefore require catalytic components that self-organize. (lifeboat.com)
  • In particular, it is increasingly recognized that commonly used ODE models are not able to capture the stochastic nature of many cellular processes. (biorxiv.org)
  • Live-cell imaging of biological processes at the single cell level has been instrumental to our current understanding of the subcellular organization of bacterial cells. (lu.se)
  • However, the application of time-lapse microscopy to study the cell biological processes underpinning development in the sporulating filamentous bacteria Streptomyces has been hampered by technical difficulties. (lu.se)
  • Many biological processes are controlled by large multi-component protein assemblies, the size and complexity of which typically precludes the determination of their high-resolution structures. (lu.se)
  • The association pathway from monomer to oligomer is critical in a range of biological processes and thus it is of a vital importance to elucidate both atomic-resolution structures of intermediates along the pathway as well as the structure of the final state. (lu.se)
  • We will investigate the relative importance of species interactions and the abiotic environment at large spatial scales, determine whether omitting some species interactions (e.g. predation) produces poorer inferences than omitting other interactions (e.g. competition) and identify the conditions under which we must disentangle the effects of species interactions from dispersal and population stochasticity. (nimbios.org)
  • To do this, we will identify the conditions under which the probability that a species is present converges on the probability that the abiotic environment is suitable at large spatial scales. (nimbios.org)
  • Several reviews and reports present the advantages and limitations of the currently available algorithms and software for in silico modelling of the drug dissolution/bioavailability, oral absorption rate/fraction, volume of distribution, path- ways, affinities or rates of metabolism, renal excretion rate as well as affinity for specific transporters [3-20]. (cdc.gov)
  • One of the most significant current discussions in Cu biochemistry relates to the mechanisms of the positive and negative actions of Cu ions based on the generation of reactive oxygen species, including radicals that can interact with DNA molecules. (mdpi.com)
  • A two process model is envisaged: (a) initiation of reactive oxygen species by moderate noise exposure and (b) promotion of oxidative stress through disrupting intrinsic antioxidant defenses. (cdc.gov)
  • 2017) No saturation of the global accumulation of alien species. (uibk.ac.at)
  • We developed a spatio-temporal occupancy model to estimate the endemic region for histoplasmosis. (cdc.gov)
  • Its short lifespan of only four to six months offers rapid insight into the effectiveness of anti-aging interventions, while its biological traits, including vertebrate-specific genes and organs and a complex immune system, are directly relevant to the study of human aging. (mdibl.org)
  • Subsequently, I will enhance biological realism by expanding to multivariate evolution of traits, better characterizing the niche concept, and by integrating paleontological data. (europa.eu)
  • We collected species biological traits and employed the emergent group hypothesis to define model entities in a systematic and objective manner. (lu.se)
  • We analyzed avian point counts from 2010 to 2016 in the southern Sierra Nevada, to model temperature, water deficit, and tree mortality effects on the abundances of 45 bird species, and then used these models to project abundances into the future based on three climate projections. (researchgate.net)
  • Because many grassland bird species have different habitat preferences, managing grasslands to provide habitat for a range of species can be a challenge. (ace-eco.org)
  • We used four years of data from southern Illinois, USA grasslands to estimate the influence of prescribed fire and habitat structure on nest survival, nest density, and abundance of three grassland bird species with different habitat preferences: Dickcissel ( Spiza americana ), Field Sparrow ( Spizella pusilla ), and Common Yellowthroat ( Geothlypis trichas ). (ace-eco.org)
  • Our results suggest that periodic prescribed fire, increased plant diversity, and larger patch size may simultaneously benefit a broad variety of grassland bird species with different habitat preferences. (ace-eco.org)
  • Obviously, depending on the criteria used, solutions will likely include a range of different species habitats with varying sizes for the areas to be protected. (nature.com)
  • Pair interactions between different species in this more complex model drove an instability that spread throughout the three-species system, causing the catalysts to clump together. (lifeboat.com)
  • These low and high-resolution data sets originates from T3SSes from different species and can also be collected from other structurally homologous systems, such as the flagella. (lu.se)
  • The biological evolutionary model explains how earlier species give rise to current species via natural selection. (sciencenews.org)
  • Currently, my primary research interest is to study evolutionary innovations of the visual system, using the four-eyed fish Anableps anableps as a research species. (lsu.edu)
  • With a partially duplicated eye, simultaneous aerial and aquatic vision, and a single optic nerve, Anableps consists in a unique model to study the developmental and genetic bases of evolutionary novelty. (lsu.edu)
  • The study of therapies and interventions to expand healthy human lifespan has been limited by a lack of animal models: traditional vertebrate models such as the mouse live too long to get rapid results, while the most popular model, a roundworm called C.elegans that lives for only three weeks, is rungs away from humans on the evolutionary ladder. (mdibl.org)
  • The Component Model of Parenting (CMP), from an evolutionary perspective, proposes a phylogenetically evolved repertoire of six systems (body contact, body stimulation, face-to-face exchange, object stimulation, and primary care) and two parenting styles (distal and proximal) by combining some of these systems. (bvsalud.org)
  • as download any first Stochastic Abundance Models: chemistry outside of the productivity and Death on it with the nuclear light l quality for partial end view stripes. (uchino.com)
  • If you start to work a Stochastic Abundance Models: With for critical cookie loading, or important box in JavaScript, this is what you are. (uchino.com)
  • I was 63 sites submitting a Nikon D5000 DSLR with a 40mm Micro NIKKOR and an Stochastic Abundance Models: With Emphasis on Biological Communities strength. (uchino.com)
  • We first developed a bootstrapping procedure to test the null hypothesis of random sampling from a stationary species abundance distribution with temporally varying sampling probabilities. (harvard.edu)
  • We next developed a hierarchical model to estimate species-specific trends in abundance while accounting for species-specific probabilities of detection. (harvard.edu)
  • For both assemblages, the bootstrap test indicated that temporal trends in abundance were more heterogeneous than expected under the null model. (harvard.edu)
  • We used the hierarchical model to estimate trends in abundance and identified sets of species in each assemblage that were steadily increasing, decreasing, or remaining constant in abundance over more than a decade of standardized annual surveys. (harvard.edu)
  • Species distribution models describe spatial variability in mesopelagic fish abundance in the Southern Ocean. (marinespecies.org)
  • Progress in data coverage and availability, supplemented by new tools for data integration and analyses have facilitated the compilation of comprehensive databases of world-wide alien species distributions such as GloNAF (https://glonaf.org/) for vascular plants (van Kleunen et al. (uibk.ac.at)
  • When are biotic interactions necessary to model species distributions? (nimbios.org)
  • Though large datasets are now available to predict species distributions, existing models are limited by our poor understanding of how the distribution of one species is affected by its interactions with other organisms. (nimbios.org)
  • Specify the species interaction most likely to induce biases when predicting species' distributions. (nimbios.org)
  • The stated goal of our working group is to develop an intuitive and quantitatively rich understanding of when information on species interactions is necessary to model species distributions. (nimbios.org)
  • During our first meeting we surveyed available statistical and mathematical methods to incorporate species interactions into inferences of species' distributions, discussed potential methodological advancements, and further examined more broadly the mutual interplay of species coexistence theory and range theory, and the overlap of both these with empirical species' distributional modeling. (nimbios.org)
  • During our second meeting, we tested scientists' ability to learn about the influence of biotic interactions on species' distributions using simulated datasets. (nimbios.org)
  • We used mathematical modeling to compare many different types of species interactions that can potentially shape species' distributions notably predation, mutualism and competition. (nimbios.org)
  • In the past, it has been hard to connect this work to empirical studies of species' distributions. (nimbios.org)
  • Effective management of threatened species relies on the ability to estimate demographic trends, which depend, in turn, on accurate information about age distributions within populations 1 . (nature.com)
  • The H5N1 Inventory should be used by those conducting surveillance in humans and animals as well as research on influenza H5N1 viruses as a reference for the identification of specific mutations in naturally occurring H5N1 viruses that may signal adaptation to mammalian species or alter susceptibility to existing antivirals. (cdc.gov)
  • Some compounds can chemically damage biological macromolecules and initiate the development of pathogenic states. (mdpi.com)
  • Prey species sharing an enemy (predator or parasitoid) can be linked by apparent competition, but it is unknown whether this process is strong enough to be a community-wide structuring mechanism that could be used to predict future states of diverse food webs. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • A model is generally thought of as an ideal representation of a concept, process or object, which is used to predict or explain an outcome. (sciencenews.org)
  • Meteorologists use models to predict the weather, and architects use models to plan and design urban structures. (sciencenews.org)
  • The model can be used to predict and explain behaviors and outcomes of the system. (sciencenews.org)
  • The plate tectonic model of the Earth can help predict geologic activity. (sciencenews.org)
  • Climate models are used to help predict weather patterns and how climates change. (sciencenews.org)
  • The wave-particle duality model of light (or the combination of the wave model and the particle model) can help predict the behavior of light. (sciencenews.org)
  • Epigenetic aging models are promising developments because they estimate individual age with high accuracy, accurately predict age in related species, and do not require invasive sampling or intensive long-term studies. (nature.com)
  • We test the EC's ability to predict age in sister taxa, including two endangered species and the more distantly related domestic horse, demonstrating high accuracy in all cases. (nature.com)
  • Finally, ECs developed for one species have been shown to predict age accurately in closely related taxa (e.g., humans and chimps 14 ), and therefore can be developed for a less threatened species with the intent of using them in threatened sister species. (nature.com)
  • Using this rationale, we aim to test the performance of the EC developed for plains zebras to predict age in domestic horses ( E. caballus ) and two threatened species: Grevy's zebras ( E. grevyi ) and Somali asses ( E. africanus somaliensis ). (nature.com)
  • Models have been developed that accurately predict surface-managed crop residue decomposition to aid crop residue management for maximum soil protection during critical soil erosion periods. (usda.gov)
  • Even though this approach is conceptually applicable to non-volatile and high molecular weight organics as well, it is more challenging to predict the other PBPK model parameters required for modelling the kinetics of these chemicals (particularly tissue diffusion coefficients, association constants for binding and oral absorption rates). (cdc.gov)
  • 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)
  • 2015). Similarly, the compilation of the Alien Species First Record-database provides a backbone for analysing spatio-temporal patterns of alien plant species accumulation (Seebens et al. (uibk.ac.at)
  • In 2000, the National Science Foundation recognized Strickler in its bound report, "50 Years of Ocean Discovery," citing his research on zooplankton as one of four landmark achievements in biological oceanography. (uwm.edu)
  • By applying these models to big scale curated datasets of species-level niches and recently available phylogenetic trees for thousands of species and the ability to integrate fossil information, I will substantially increase our understanding on how biodiversity, both in terms of richness and niches, is generated. (europa.eu)
  • The pharmaceutical literature consists of numerous examples of 2-D QSARs, 3-D QSARs and expert systems for modelling the individual components or phases of drug disposition and pharmacokinetics (i.e. absorption, distribution, metabolism and *Corresponding author. (cdc.gov)
  • To accomplish this, we have used relatively simple models focusing solely on species interactions and more sophisticated models that also include dispersal and environmental fluctuations. (nimbios.org)
  • The African turquoise killifish is the shortest-lived vertebrate to be bred in captivity, said MDI Biological Laboratory faculty member Aric Rogers, Ph.D. Using it as a model we will be able to rapidly identify and test the genes, gene pathways and environmental manipulations governing aging and longevity, which in turn could lead to new therapies to extend healthy human lifespan. (mdibl.org)
  • That is, rather than seeing a continuum of organism types with respect to continuous environmental variations, instead observers find discrete species or clumps of species, with one clump separated from another in niche space by a gap. (utoronto.ca)
  • Here, using a simple one dimensional reaction-diffusion model with a smoothly varying environmental condition, we investigate conditions for a discrete speciation instability of a continuously varying species structure in the context of asexually reproducing microbes. (utoronto.ca)
  • 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)
  • Vector control strategies include chemical, biological and environmental management that mainly target larval breeding sites. (who.int)
  • Recent work in the tropics has advanced our understanding of the local impacts of land-use change on species richness. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • compared a century-old dataset on species richness in the Mojave against modern surveys to measure climate-related changes in bird and small mammal communities. (researchgate.net)
  • The development and use of epigenetic models in other species are still limited but are becoming increasingly common 6 . (nature.com)
  • Physiologically-based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) models are increasingly finding use in risk assessment applications of data-rich compounds. (cdc.gov)
  • PBPK models essentially represent a systems biology approach to the study of ADME and are increasingly finding use in screening-level as well as quantitative risk assessments to reduce the uncertainties associated with interspecies, route-to-route, and high-dose to low-dose extrapolations of tissue dose of chemicals [21-24]. (cdc.gov)
  • Increasingly, the collections are also used to extract DNA and thus enable studies of species' relationships, distribution history and population genetics, or to investigate the expression, variation or change of different genes over time. (lu.se)
  • A member of the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS) , the main station property consists of 623 acres of forests, ponds, and meadows that encompass upland areas of the Chickasaw bluffs as well as bottomland habitats near the Mississippi River. (memphis.edu)
  • The research consists of mathematical modelling and ecotoxicological experiments with organic xenobiotic compounds and freshwater invertebrates. (birmingham.ac.uk)
  • The resulting debates between advocates and critics of biological invasion mitigation are doomed to remain sterile unless the whole diversity of points of view is considered and the relationships between human beings and non-human beings (i.e., plants and animals) are considered in their full complexity. (ecologyandsociety.org)
  • The Western Ghats are a globally recognized repository of biological diversity for our planet. (mongabay.com)
  • Assess connectivity between past and present eelgrass meadows using bio-physical models and population genetic methods and to assess genetic diversity with the aim to identify vulnerable and valuable eelgrass areas. (gu.se)
  • In fact, resveratrol is produced by more than 70 species of plants in response to such stressful situations [ 8 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • However, it is a challenge to determine the chemical-specific parameters for these models, particularly in time- and resource-limiting situations. (cdc.gov)
  • Microhabitat matters Understanding how our warming climate affects vulnerable species is of paramount importance. (researchgate.net)
  • We projected the highest total bird abundances in the future under the warmest climate scenario that we considered, but habitat modification (e.g., tree mortality) and water deficit could offset the positive influence of temperature for many species. (researchgate.net)
  • As other studies have shown, climate warming may lead to substantial but idiosyncratic effects on wildlife species that could result in community composition shifts. (researchgate.net)
  • 2. Is the species (or cultivar or variety) noted as being naturalized in the US or world in a similar climate? (cal-ipc.org)
  • Biological control of soilborne plant pathogens using beneficial fungi, such as the mycoparasite Trichoderma harzianum , offers the prospect of environmentally benign pest control. (scirp.org)
  • Pathogens, such as bacteria, viruses and parasites, that cause disease in humans and animals may depend partially or entirely for their existence on other physical, chemical, or biological factors. (who.int)
  • As the case numbers grow, the necropsy results from stranded killer whales will undoubtedly reveal the changing health threats to this species across both age classes and sub populations. (vin.com)
  • With information from 1-3 we will use biophysical modeling, which includes larval behavior and ocean transport, to test hypotheses about how evolution of specific larval behaviors enhancing recruitment also may provide opportunities for local adaptations through reduced gene flow with distant populations. (gu.se)
  • Three-dimensional computerized models of proteins and protein receptors can help inform and assist drug design. (sciencenews.org)
  • Copper ions bind to biomolecules (e.g., peptides and proteins) playing an essential role in many biological and physiological pathways in the human body. (mdpi.com)
  • Currently we are working with development of methods to determine structures of fibrillar proteins by a combination of structure modeling and X-ray fiber diffraction interference. (lu.se)
  • Previous work in this area has been on modeling the assembly structure of the type III secretion system and prediction of the high-resolution structures of homo-oligomeric proteins using limited experimental data from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) in order to speed up the process of structure determination. (lu.se)
  • Rämisch S, Lizatovic and Andre I. "Exploring alternate states and oligomerization preferences of coiled-coils by de novo structure modeling" Proteins, 2014. (lu.se)
  • Rämisch S, Lizatović R and André I. Automated de novo phasing and model building of coiled-coil proteins. (lu.se)
  • Protein performs its biological functions by interacting with other proteins. (lu.se)
  • Models are often guided by a set of assumptions that minimize the numerous variables affecting the predicted behavior of the system. (sciencenews.org)
  • Solving the chemical master equation is an indispensable tool in understanding the behavior of biological and chemical systems. (biorxiv.org)
  • Currently, the pulmonary toxicity potential of NCC and the possible molecular mechanisms underlying the toxicity, if any, were studied by employing a rat inhalation toxicity model. (cdc.gov)
  • Homomeric assemblies typically adopt internal symmetry, which provides a crucial constraint in the molecular modeling. (lu.se)
  • Such a model would provide an unprecedented view of the molecular architecture of T3SS by visualizing the placement of its componentswithin the assembly as well as interactions between these components. (lu.se)
  • However, identifying specific vulnerable areas is challenging because the habitat requirements of most species are still poorly understood 4 . (nature.com)
  • Therefore, a compromise needs to be sought in order to identify solutions that minimize both socioeconomic losses and the total amount of habitat needed for a given level of protection, while still encompassing as many species as possible. (nature.com)
  • Étant donné que de nombreuses espèces d'oiseaux de prairies ont des préférences différentes en matière d'habitat, la gestion de prairies visant à fournir un habitat à une gamme d'espèces peut s'avérer difficile. (ace-eco.org)
  • Currently, the BCG can be fed information about different components of coral reef sites (e.g. reef fish assemblages or benthic species) and uses that information to deliver a value between 1 and 6 that represents the relative health of those ecosystems ( figure 1 ). (uprm.edu)
  • Biological systematics studies suggest that species are discretized in niche space. (utoronto.ca)
  • However, despite its importance, the interdependence between species diversification and niche evolution is not yet understood. (europa.eu)
  • Despite its critical importance in understanding life's evolution, the universality of an interdependence between species diversification and niche evolution, as well as the directionality and drivers of this association, are still poorly understood. (europa.eu)
  • Finally, I will allow inference on biotic and abiotic drivers of the interrelationship of species and niche diversification. (europa.eu)
  • The ideal gas model allows a simplistic prediction of interactions in gaseous system based on a set of given conditions. (sciencenews.org)
  • Test when species interactions matter at large biogeographic scales. (nimbios.org)
  • To do this we will test whether omitting some species interactions (say predation) induce more bias in Species' Distribution Models (SDMs) than omissions of other species interactions (say competition). (nimbios.org)
  • Test the bias due to for synergistic effects of species interactions, dispersal, history and stochasticity. (nimbios.org)
  • Our most important insight: theories about species interactions that result in elimination of a species can provide powerful guidance on where a species will be present. (nimbios.org)
  • Recently we have shown that a coarse-grained model based on the primitive model, that has been used for modelling polyelectrolytes for over 30 years, works well for a range of IDPs where electrostatics governs the intra- and intermolecular interactions [1]. (lu.se)
  • The notion of tempo and mode of species diversification integrates palaeontology with genetics and natural selection. (europa.eu)
  • The EU-funded INSANE project aims to develop innovative flexible models that allow joint inference on coupled diversification and trait evolution dynamics. (europa.eu)
  • In this project, I will first develop much-needed novel flexible models that allow joint inference on coupled diversification and trait evolution dynamics by allowing joint rate-heterogeneity for radiations of considerable size. (europa.eu)
  • These models are typically obtained by a combination of expert and literature-driven knowledge as well as experimental data. (biorxiv.org)
  • Our goal is to use high-resolution structural modeling techniques guided by constraints taken from lower resolution experimental data to generate structural models of important biological protein assemblies for which high resolution structural determination is unfeasible. (lu.se)
  • The plains zebra EC has the potential for broad application within the genus Equus given that five of the seven extant wild species of the genus are threatened. (nature.com)
  • Ecologists have used mathematics to study the effects of one species on another, such as predation, for decades. (nimbios.org)
  • Several important differences between species in this process suggest that a dedicated human-oriented approach is advantageous as extrapolating from rodent data may be misleading in several respects. (nih.gov)
  • This FOA is a companion to RFA-AG-24-019 , Comparative Research on Determinants of Differences Among Human and Nonhuman Primate Species in Life Spans, Life Histories, and Other Aging-Related Outcomes, and Prospects for Translation, which invites R01 research projects in this topic area and describes specific topics of interest. (nih.gov)
  • The approach is guided by partitioning the network into biological relevant subsets and thus avoids the use of single species basis functions that are known to give inaccurate results for biological systems. (biorxiv.org)
  • Although low-rank approximations have been used in the past - particularly in the quantum physics literature - our approach departs from traditional applications by exploiting the underlying structure of the network rather than reducing the equations to single species basis functions (orbitals in the language of quantum dynamics). (biorxiv.org)
  • Vision plays a critical role in collision detection for most animal species in a dynamic world. (europa.eu)
  • It is very difficult to develop therapeutics for central nervous system disorders owing to several challenges in studying the human brain due to its exceptionally high complexity that is not present in other animal species, and inaccessibility to tissue samples from patients and healthy individuals. (lu.se)
  • First, building on a well-established continuum theory for catalytically active species that diffuse along chemical gradients, they showed that systems where each species responds chemotactically only to its own substrate cannot self-organize unless one species is self-attracting. (lifeboat.com)
  • 1977. "Encounter probabilities and community structure in zooplankton: A mathematical model. (uwm.edu)
  • Taking the inspiration from biological visual systems, the consortium will bring neurobiologists, neural system modellers, chip designers, and robotic researchers together and complement each others' research strengths via staff secondments, and jointly organised seminars and workshops. (europa.eu)
  • The researchers say that their discovery of the importance of network topology-which catalyst species affect and are affected by which substrates and products-could open new directions in studies of active matter, informing both origin-of-life research and the design of shape-shifting functional structures. (lifeboat.com)
  • The initial research at the MDI Biological Laboratory, to be conducted by Rogers, Voot Yin, Ph.D. , and Sam Beck, Ph.D. , will focus on charting the progress of these age-related degenerative changes. (mdibl.org)
  • Recent research has shown that biological control of certain weed species such as downy brome in Kentucky bluegrass is feasible using specific rhizobacteria. (usda.gov)
  • Our collections are mainly used in taxonomic research to clarify species boundaries, relationships and which name should be used. (lu.se)
  • After beginning her research journey as a master's student within our Ph.D. Preparatory Program, she dedicated the last several years to developing more efficient methods that can be used to generate functional and mature astrocytes for disease modeling of neurological disorders. (lu.se)
  • We describe and make freely available this 2016 release of the database, containing more than 3.2 million records sampled at over 26,000 locations and representing over 47,000 species. (imperial.ac.uk)
  • The BCG is therefore a useful tool to describe how biological conditions change incrementally along a gradient of increasing anthropogenic stress. (uprm.edu)
  • We describe methods of analysis that can be applied to a matrix of counts of individuals that is organized by species (rows) and time-ordered sampling periods (columns). (harvard.edu)
  • However, it is also well known that in a number of problems the ODE formulation is insufficient to describe important features of the biological system [ 48 , 25 , 36 , 38 ]. (biorxiv.org)
  • How do effects of chemicals propagate from lower to higher levels of biological organisation? (birmingham.ac.uk)
  • The application domain of existing QSARs for developing PBPK models is limited, due to lack of relevant data for diverse chemicals and mechanisms. (cdc.gov)
  • In contrast, such stochastic effects are taken into account by models based on the chemical master equation (CME). (biorxiv.org)
  • Serious' effects are those that evoke failure in a biological system and can lead to morbidity or mortality (e.g., acute respiratory distress or death). (cdc.gov)