Ecologists

With support from the National Science Foundation's Rapid Response Research (RAPID) program, Rice ecologists Tom Miller, Sarah Bengston and Scott Solomon, along with their students, are evaluating whether Harvey increased opportunities for invasion by exotic ants. "Hurricane Harvey was, among ...

A team of scientists led by Hannah Fraser from the University of Melbourne surveyed 494 ecologists and 313 evolutionary biologists and asked them about questionable research practices. Research approaches that groom raw data to make it look more appealing – that is, closer to the results predicted ...

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Marine ecologists study the effects of giant kelp on groups of organisms in the underwater forest ecosystem. Date: March 14, 2018; Source: University of California - Santa Barbara; Summary: When British naturalist Charles Darwin traveled to the Galapagos Islands in 1835, he took notice of the giant kelp forests ringing the ...

Weak mist is predicted in some places at night and in the morning. Mild south wind will blow. The temperature will be +2-5˚C at night, +7-11˚C in the afternoon in Absheron peninsula, +2-4˚C at night, +8-10˚C in daytime in Baku, the Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry reported. Atmospheric pressure ...

The World Economic Forum has a tradition of bringing together a sprinkling of academics and entrepreneurial innovators to mix with business and policy elites at their annual meeting in Davos. It is a rare opportunity for researchers to interact with such a diverse and influential audience, and all participants ...

The temperature will be +3-5˚C at night, +6-8˚C in daytime in Absheron peninsula and Baku, the Ecology and Natural Resources Ministry reported. Atmospheric pressure will be 767 mm mercury column. Relative humidity will be 75-85%. Ecologists predict rainy weather in country's regions. It will be foggy ...

Ecologists warn that the City of Cape Town should proceed with caution as it continues to drill for an aquifer in the vicinity of the Steenbras Dam. The dam falls under the Kogelberg Nature Reserve, which is a part of the Cape Floral Region. This region has been identified as one of the world's 18 biodiversity ...

Anticipating these developments, the BES Agricultural Ecology Group convened a workshop in December 2017, drawing together ecologists and agriculturalists, to find out how much agreement there is on the way ahead. The answer was – a lot. And from that meeting we have produced a workshop report: ...

WATCH: Special Report - Steenbras aquifer drilling too risky, ecologists warn ... While the immediate impacts of infrastructure such as cables, pipes and vehicle access are a primary problem for ecologists, the secondary concern is how the falling water table may affect rare plants growing in marshy soil fed ...

Part of the Junior Ecologists class, children and their parents had just returned from a short hike observing native plant species. This was followed by a ... The Junior Ecologists class is offered to children ages 6-9, but other programs are open to all ages, children and adults. “We saw a sword fern on the ...

Kavous Seyed-Emami who has reportedly died in jail just two weeks after his arrest on January 24, 2018. Share. Share on Facebook · Share on Twitter · Share on В Контакте · Share on Google+ · Email to a Friend · Share on LinkedIn. Print. Kavous Seyed-Emami, a prominent Iranian-Canadian ...

Princeton ecologists Andrea Graham and Sarah Budischak examined data from an Indonesian study of 4,000 patients who had two parasitic infections: malaria and hookworm. They focused on the malaria patients who also received deworming treatment and discovered previously unknown interactions ...

Swan is one of only a handful of ecologists who do experiments in urban vacant lots—for that matter, ecologists rarely experiment in cities at all. His work is part of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study, a massive long-term research project launched in 1997. The study is a collaboration between natural, physical, ...

A University of Toledo team of ecologists has received $400,000 in grant money to better understand wildlife in northwest Ohio's globally rare Oak Openings region. The two-year grant, provided by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Michigan DNR with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service funds, ...

Iran has arrested three more environmentalists on spying charges, the country's powerful judiciary has said. The arrests on February 25 came weeks after a wave of detentions and the death of a well-known Iranian-Canadian environmentalist who died in Iranian custody. Judiciary spokesman ...

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA—In the mountains east of here there are plants so rare they are only found in an area the size of a soccer field. Some could be extinct in a matter of months, ecologists warn, if city officials proceed with plans to drill into aquifers to help ease a looming water crisis. Cape Town ...