Characterizing the socioeconomic drivers of vegetated landscape pattern changes can inform ecological management.
In ecotoxicology, they can be used to study the direct and indirect effects of chemicals and other stressors on ecosystem structure and function, recovery from these effects, and to inform ecological risk assessment.
In our study we make use of the significant benefits that microorganisms offer as model systems to test and inform ecological theory [25] [26] to examine whether interaction effects between bacterial species richness and environmental complexity (resource richness) determine levels of ecosystem functioning over time.
Of the 35 experts contacted, 27 (77 %) responded; eighteen of which (51%%) returned completed questionnaires while nine (25%%) declined to participate due to concerns with the use of expert questionnaires to inform ecological models, concerns over their own expertise or a lack of time available.
UK Governments are currently establishing a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) informed by ecological data and socio-economic evidence.
Today's artists, informed of ecological hazards by groups like Clearwater and Riverkeeper, as well as by lawsuits mandating the cleanup of the river, are also exploring the relationship of human activity with the river, Mr. Maitinsky said.
Parallel sustainable monetary systems are being developed by civil society groups and non-governmental organisations (NGOs), informed by ecological economics perspectives on development, value, economic scale and growth, and responding to the unsustainability of current global financial systems.
We elucidate the latter aspect with reference to an experiment in the wheatbelt of Western Australia The Ridgefield Multiple Ecosystem Services Experiment the design of which has been informed by ecological theory and the acceptance of novelty as an ecosystem component.
He also attended the American Quaternary Association Biennial Meetings in Bozeman, Montana, where he presented his work "Informing Ecological Forecasting through Use of the Quaternary Mammal Fossil Record". He and Mark Carrasco initiated research on their new project to determine the long-term ecological baseline of mammals.
Using coevolutionary examples, students can understand how ecological relationships result from evolutionary processes and how an understanding of evolution informs ecological research.
