These are residential status, religion, marital status, frequency of watching television and listening to radio, frequency of reading newspaper, ecological zone (made up of the ten administrative regions), occupation, partner's occupation and education, contraceptive usage and birth order.
It was the first ecological book I ever read (I was 13) and I got so scared that we would miss water some day on the planet.
Phil Henshaw, a frequent contributor here and one of the Dot Earthers who self organized a face-to-face meeting with me awhile back, had some interesting reactions to this weekend's profile of Jeremy Grantham in the Times Magazine, entitled "Can Jeremy Grantham Profit From Ecological Mayhem?" You can read his analysis below.
STIRRUPS can be used to classify 16S rDNA sequence reads from other ecological niches if an appropriate reference database of 16S rDNA sequences is available.
The critic Harold Bloom reads one of Merwin's translations; the poet Naomi Shihab Nye reads one of his ecological poems, poised between gratitude for the Earth and hysteria over its destruction.
But ecological macroeconomics is there for the reading: theoretical and empirical detail about the trade-off between economic growth and biodiversity conservation, a stable climate, and ecological integrity in general.
The I.P.C.C.'s list of potential warming-induced disasters — from ecological collapse to famine, flooding, and pestilence — reads like a riff on the ten plagues.
"The Istrian Peninsula has managed to preserve true and original natural values," one of them read, hailing Istria as "an ecological and healthy tourist destination".
While much of the ecological genetics research community is focused upon read lengths, assembly annotation, and SNP identification, optimization of data assembly needs more attention.
As more people grow fruit and vegetables for financial and ecological benefits, Midler advises patience, embracing the gruntwork, reading books and watching DVDs on gardening, and swapping out bad soil for the good stuff.
