The site's database, with case studies and research on topics from crop ecology to disease management, is a resource for practitioners and researchers in developing countries seeking to improve agricultural systems and adapt to the changing climate.
This improved knowledge of the complex ecology, epidemiology and distribution of each leishmania species has had considerable public health and therapeutic implications for the control of the wide range of symptoms caused by these parasites.
Although the Wellcome Unit closed in 1992, its legacy continues at the Instituto Evandro Chagas, now a hub for visiting scientists researching all aspects of Leishmania and other parasites, from ecology to epidemiology, immunology and the genetics of host responses to infection.
She comes in and says, 'Something's happened to one of your birds hasn't it?'" Murphy's satellite tagging programme, which he was writing up for a PhD on the ecology of the hen harrier, has shed new light on the bird's varied and nomadic life.
As power over this infrastructure moves beyond even the city or national government, little opportunity remains for citizens to play a role in developing the rules that govern their own urban ecology.
No one had a more crucial impact on a whole generation's ideas about ecology and history.
Like them or not, they have become an essential part of the ecology of publishing.
Discoveries will grow into marketable designs only if nurtured by an ecology, which includes not only universities but very often state subsidies too, and supply chains with mutually reinforcing links.
He was nearly 40 when his mother encouraged him to pursue his passion – birds – and study for an ecology degree.
Regardless, a change in the ecology of MERS-CoV must have occurred to enable emergence in people".
