ecology
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The researchers instead suggest that ecology may have imposed a lower size limit on dinosaurs.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 9, 2026
“Environmental legislation has not been based on the science of ecology, or on forestry,” says Víctor Resco de Dios, a professor of forestry at the University of Lleida in Spain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 2, 2026
“I think we’re likely to break global temperature records with this next El Niño,” said Malin Pinsky, professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UC Santa Cruz.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026
Elliott Hazen, an adjunct professor in the ecology and evolutionary biology department at the University of California, Santa Cruz, says that hasn't happened in a decade.
From Barron's ● Jul. 27, 2026
Rather than being the timeless indigenous adaptation portrayed in ecology textbooks, many archaeologists now view slash-and-burn agriculture as a relatively modern technique whose spread was driven by European technology.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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"I recorded from beneath the bark and composed music led by the rainforests themselves, empowering them to have their own voice in raising awareness of fragile ecologies," she said.
From BBC ● Apr. 21, 2024
Clear-cutting, for example, is devastating to local ecologies.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2023
In the past few years, a cultural sea change has occurred in Hollywood with oceans becoming central ecologies in many blockbusters, including Disney's "Moana" in 2016 and "Aquaman."
From Salon ● Jan. 2, 2023
Her public projects reflect a broader movement of city dwellers interested in reclaiming underused outdoor sites and forging more intimate connections with local ecologies.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
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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