Few studies have addressed questions of phylogeographic structure and dispersal limitation in bacteria on a truly global scale in discontinuous but globally common habitats, and yet such studies would provide a realistic insight into the degree of dispersal limitation typically encountered by bacteria.
The war was fought on a global scale, in central Europe and from the Philippines to Brazil.
Add to this investment the amount spent by each home board and you're talking about a sport transformed on a global scale in eight and a half years.
These goals represent a real attempt to implement policy changes on a global scale, in line with modern sustainable development theories.
"We don't believe we can change industry on a global scale in a few decades so that everybody stops burning fossil fuel.
"It's not possible to deliver, on a global scale in all cultures and age groups, a coherent and reasonably assured experience," said Vinton G. Cerf, a board member who is widely credited with helping found the Internet.
[Indigenous people] have been the stewards of the plants, the stewards of this knowledge, but I think that now things are getting desperate on a global scale in terms of the environmental catastrophes that are looming.
"One of the unique things about the Internet is a company can be a white-hot success and become a global brand and reach global scale in just a few years — that's the good news," he told me this week.
"The possibilities for human development are immense and we have at our disposal the means to end poverty at global scale in the course of one generation," said the communique issued at the end of the two-day conference in Mexico City.
GOVERNMENT help for solar power was supposed to be a triple play: jobs at a time of dire short-term need; incubation of an American industry sure to be important on a global scale in the next few years; and a long-term reduction in climate-changing pollution.
The Guantánamo files, he said, confirmed what the earlier releases already suggested: that "the future of the networked Fourth Estate will involve a mixture of traditional and online models, cooperating and competing on a global scale in a productive but difficult relationship".
