They have set me writing a book (in part) for children in collaboration with the artist Jackie Morris, earned me a Private Eye parody from Craig Brown that left me tearful with (mostly) laughter – and prompted me to begin a glossary for the Anthropocene: a dark-ecological "desecration phrasebook" to set alongside the optimistic word-lists of Landmarks.
Pressure increased during net photosynthetic O2 production in the light and decreased during respiratory O2 uptake during the dark in aquatic Closed Ecological Systems (CESs) with small head gas volumes.
We have successfully sequenced a transcriptome of an ecological model songbird, the dark-eyed junco, using pyrosequencing and de novo assembly.
"Poverty, underdevelopment, inequality within and among countries, together with the worsening global ecological crisis, sum up the dark shadow under which most of the world lives," Mr. Mbeki said in his speech.
Across replicate populations of Midas cichlids, including populations from completely isolated crater lakes derived from independent colonizations [ 14, 18], we identified considerable and in most cases repeated ecological differentiation between sympatric gold and dark color morphs.
And in a world now pushing political, economic, and ecological limits to the breaking point, his dark vision of humanity looks increasingly, chillingly credible.
Although of fundamental physiological and ecological relevance, little is known of the dark-induced signalling processes leading to stomatal closure.
So this study aims to evaluate the effect of onion Allium cepa L, Red Creno landrace in controlling thread caterpillar, dark sword-grass in lettuce by intercropping with onion in agro-ecological conditions of Lichinga.
All pots were then transferred to the growth chamber of Gaolan Station of Agricultural and Ecological Experiment, to keep plants under controlled conditions (16 h light/8 h dark; 22 °C).
The persistent eco-morphological differentiation in body shape and LPJ morphology of the ten investigated natural populations and the gold and dark common garden siblings suggests that the color polymorphism has potentially direct, genetically determined, ecological consequences [ 32].
May 12 2013 July 28 201313 The artist Yoko Ono and the curators Hans Ulrich Obrist and Klaus Biesenbach kick off MOMA PS1's new series of exhibitions about ecological challenges in the twenty-first century with a discussion on May 12 at 3 titled "Dark Optimism".
