Word: ecologist
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...only grow much more slowly but also, in some areas, will probably dwindle. Add to that the need to conserve overstressed water resources and reduce the use of polluting chemicals, and the enormity of the challenge becomes apparent. In order to meet it, believes Gordon Conway, the agricultural ecologist who heads the Rockefeller Foundation, 21st century farmers will have to draw on every arrow in their agricultural quiver, including genetic engineering. And contrary to public perception, he says, those who have the least to lose and the most to gain are not well-fed Americans and Europeans but the hollow...
...telling if the earth--already worked to exhaustion feeding the 6 billion people currently here--can take much more. People in the richest countries consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, and as poorer nations push to catch up, pressure on the planet will keep growing. "An ecologist looks at the population size relative to the carrying capacity of Earth," says Lester Brown, president of the Worldwatch Institute. "Looking at it that way, things are much worse than we expected them to be 20 years...
...Probably more than anyone, he has had a series of very successful students who have gone on to become very famous," says Frank W. Marlowe, a Harvard behavioral ecologist who studies sex and mating systems...
Donoghue said he is also excited about the title of his position, named for the famed ecologist and evolutionary biologist G. Evelyn Hutchinson...
...volunteer teams will go to international and U.S. sites, compared with just four when Earthwatch was launched in 1971. While more than 2,000 scientific papers have resulted from Earthwatch expeditions, volunteers for the most part are required only to have physical endurance and willing hands. Supervised by ecologist Dustin Becker, the Peacheys' team captured and recorded some 300 birds and added to the store of knowledge about Ecuador's dwindling tropical-forest habitat...