ecology
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Its waters are part of the ancestral homeland of the Kootzaduka’a, whose name, meaning “brine fly eaters,” reflects their longstanding relationship with the lake and its ecology.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
"We want to build on Denis's commitment to field ecology and conservation research, creating a lasting legacy that will benefit both science and nature recovery in Cumbria and beyond," said RSPB's Will Peach.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2026
Throughout the 1960s through to the 1980s, the “doomsday” equation became regularly cited — usually at face value — in textbooks on genetics, ecology and demography.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 17, 2026
"Independent environmental assessments -- covering grid stability, power supply, water risk, ecology, acoustics and more -- are conducted 12 to 24 months before a project begins," he said.
From Barron's ● Oct. 11, 2026
Natural experiments in any field, whether in ecology or human history, are inherently open to potential methodological criticisms.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
While Mr Bhatia doesn’t think that urbanisation is evil, he points out that it can lead to the rather unscientific abandonment of traditions that were designed to serve systems and ecologies.
From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2024
In a deadpan appeal to patriotism, grim scenes of spoiled ecologies frame a bald eagle.
From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2024
So I think in saying, “If only we could ask what it needs,” I have to be asking, “How can we pay attention to these ecologies that in many ways we still barely understand?”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 17, 2023
In popular culture, Jason Momoa's Aquaman and Tenoch Huerta's Namor remind us that the oceans are Black, Brown and Indigenous ecologies, and that oceans are salient geographies in the fight for racial and ecological justice.
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2023
Warming, Adams, Wheeler, and others have described, in their plant and animal ecologies, the processes of competition and segregation by which communities are formed.
From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Robert Ezra Park
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