ecologist
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a biologist who studies the relation between organisms and their environment
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Between degrees, she worked as a professional ecologist for an environmental NGO in California and as a biologist for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources.
Deep ecologist says New Age politics is too enamored of high technology, space exploration, and computer management systems.
David S. Pilliod, supervisory research ecologist for the U.S. Geological Survey’s Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center in Boise, calls spotted frogs “a generalist species,” flexible and adaptable to a range of conditions.
As ecologist put it, "Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species — man — acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world."
Dr Anna Berthinussen, a bat ecologist commissioned by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) to examine such measures on new roads, said it was likely the council's attempts to mitigate the impact had failed.
A team led by Ramunas Stepanauskas, a microbial ecologist at the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences in Maine, started the project more than a decade ago.