PROFILES about lobsterman and historical ecologist Ted Ames who has used oral histories from fishermen to track the movement of cod in the Gulf of Maine… A historical ecologist studies man's effect on a past landscape.
The New Yorker, July 31 , 2006P. 56 PROFILES about lobsterman and historical ecologist Ted Ames who has used oral histories from fishermen to track the movement of cod in the Gulf of Maine… A historical ecologist studies man's effect on a past landscape.
By Alec Wilkinson The New Yorker, July 31 , 2006P. 56 PROFILES about lobsterman and historical ecologist Ted Ames who has used oral histories from fishermen to track the movement of cod in the Gulf of Maine… A historical ecologist studies man's effect on a past landscape.
Dr. Dennis Frey, behavioral ecologist studying monarchs at California Polytechnic State University, said that on a recent visit to a monarch sanctuary with a group of scientists, the sound of their approach silenced the work of a nearby, but hidden, woodsman.
James Morris, an NOAA ecologist studying lionfish, says "we've got evidence that during every month of the year, at some locations, there is reproduction occurring".
A nutritional ecologist studying the diets of monkeys happened to cross paths with researchers who in the late 1970s and mid-1990s hanalyzedzed the nutrient composition of leaves in the same Ugandan tropical rainforest where she was working.
Dr. Rebecca Tonietto is a community ecologist studying wild bee communities in shrinking cities.
The idea of patch dynamics dates at least to the 1940s, when plant ecologists studied the structure and dynamics of vegetation in terms of interactive patches.
And in Los Angeles, ecologists studying the city's "ecohydrology" have calculated that planting a million new trees, an idea with fairly universal appeal, would have the drawback of increasing water consumption by 5 percent.
Urban ecologists study changes in human-animal interactions caused by factors like sprawl, traffic, and noise pollution, in an attempt to understand why some species (the mountain lion, say) are badly disrupted by human developments, while others, such as the coyote, appear to be thriving — turning up in more and more Eastern back yards.
These are only a few of the pungent peppers that Mr. Nabhan and two other chili lovers — Kurt Michael Friese, a chef from Iowa City, and Kraig Kraft, an agro-ecologist studying the origin of hot peppers — collected on a journey that began two years ago, in northern Mexico, and took them across the hot spots of this country.
