Sentence examples for ecological experiment from inspiring English sources

While Charles Darwin is mainly noted for his treatise on evolution, he was one of the founders of soil ecology, and he made note of the first ecological experiment in The Origin of Species.

But far from achieving a neat solution, scientists say Lake Austin's ecological experiment has just begun.

This is common practice for oil spills on the surface; using them in bulk at depth, as in the Gulf, is an ecological experiment.

At this scale, Cleveland's vacant land begins to look less like a sign of neglect and more like an ecological experiment spread over some 3,600 acres.

The installation, titled IB EC [Intelligent Bacteria: Eschericia coli, The song of the river], and which was recently on display at the New Museum in New York, consists of an ecological experiment to provide alternative ways to purify water.

Since 2003 Kamikatsu's 2,000 residents have been part of a so far unheralded ecological experiment that, if successful, could force bin men across the country to look for new jobs.

Among the Shokalskiy's passengers were scientists and paying members of the public who helped during the various oceanographic, ornithology and ecological experiments.

WITHIN the bright-blue and green walls of Emilio Carranza, a three-classroom primary school in a rural part of the state of Puebla, a lesson is engrossed in a book of "Ecological Experiments and Facts".

With additional access to an unlogged forest site and a palm oil plantation site being cleared without fragments as control sites, the total land area encompasses 8,000 hectares (an area larger than Manhattan), making it one of the world's biggest ecological experiments.

A similar fate attended all the utopian projects he dreamed up for his Tahiti paradise: it was going to be a gathering place for artists and intellectuals; there would be ecological experiments leading to breakthroughs in solar and wind power; hired scientists would find a way to process algae into a protein supplement for Third World nations.

Ecologists say it could become one of the biggest controlled, real-world ecological experiments ever.