Both company officials and environmental advocates describe the new plant, on 550 acres of the factory site, as the largest industrial ecology effort in the world.
A gift from the city of Seattle to the University of Washington, it has been the focus of an intensive urban ecology research effort to restore it to its former glory.
As part of the emerging field of pelagic seascape ecology, this effort provides an improved means of monitoring and comparing oceanographic biophysical dynamics and an objective, quantitative basis by which to scale data from local experiments and observations to regional and global biogeochemical cycles.
As part of a bat ecology research effort in managed forests, we tracked seven lactating northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis Trouessart) to 12 roost trees used by maternity colonies ranging in size from 11 to 65 individuals in the central Appalachians of West Virginia.
While Costa Rica no longer makes sense as a retirement haven, its lack of political strife historically and its strong pro-ecology marketing efforts have succeeded in keeping the country in the eco- and adventure-travel spotlight for years.
These types of research findings are critical to ecological engineering efforts that need to incorporate local stakeholders and ecology so that an integrated effort can be made to mitigate the impacts of PAHs.
Participants on this $2,300, 10-day tour (airfare and two nights' stay in Bangkok not included) receive an intensive education in regional ecology and conservation efforts, which range from using biogas to discourage logging and creating communal farms to decrease poaching.
La Planada, he says, remains close to his heart, and he is continuing to study its tree growth and ecology in an effort to understand the nature of the Andean cloud forest.
In the dynamic field of plant invasion ecology, focused taxonomic effort results in considerable improvement and almost invariably expansion of knowledge on organisms.
Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, is a natural inhabitant of aquatic environments, but despite intensive efforts its ecology is still poorly understood [4].
