An ecologist who studies a pond today may well find it relatively unchanged in a year's time.

如今研究池塘的生态学者很可能会发现，池塘在一年之内基本没什么变化。

"Many factors contributed to the decline", said Patrick McIntyre, an ecologist who was the lead author of the study.

该研究的领头作者、生态学家帕特里克·麦克伦泰尔表示：“许多因素导致了这种下降。”

"Our philosophy with the island has always been, 'OK, remove the threats and let the island go back to what it was'," says ecologist Christina Boser.

生态学家克里斯蒂娜·波沙说：“对待这座岛的理念一直是，‘好的，消除威胁，让岛屿回归它原本的样子’。”

The ecologist is concerned primarily with the quantities of matter and energy that pass through a given ecosystem, and with the rates at which they do so.

生态学家主要关注的是流经某一生态系统的物质和能量的量以及它们的速度。

An ecologist once asked a boy what he thought it meant to protect the environment.

一位生态学家曾经问一个男孩，他认为保护环境意味着什么。

"Exactly—and school is a good place to learn about ecology," added the ecologist.

“没错——而且学校是学习生态学的好地方。”生态学家补充道。

But when I told an ecologist I know, she was horrified.

但当我把这告诉一位我认识的生态学家时，她吓了一跳。

Job Prospects: Marine biologist, evolutionary ecologist.

就业前景：海洋生物学家、进化生态学家。

This time, it's by one of world-famous ecologist e.o..

他是世界闻名的生物学家e.o威尔逊以前的学生马克·莫菲特博士。

We spoke with one of the scientists creating the panel - plant ecologist Anne Larigauderie.

我们今天采访到了该小组的主创科学家之一——植物生态学家安妮·拉瑞德里。

Of course, Bartenev's story also appears dubious in places, especially his claim to be an ecologist.

当然，巴尔捷涅夫的故事也有不少地方令人生疑，尤其是他自称是生态学家。

"Without change, deserts deteriorate," claims Tony Burgess, a burly ecologist with a huge red beard.

“不改变，沙漠会恶化”托尼·博格斯声称，这是位身材魁梧，留着一大把红胡须的生态学家。

Ecologist Dan Botkin speaks of forests "marching slowly across the landscape to the beat of the changing climate."

生态学家，丹鲍肯讲到森林时说，“和着改变气候的拍子缓缓的穿行于地貌之中。”

Marine reef ecologist Scott Porter works to remove oil from his hands in the Gulf of Mexico south of Venice, Louisiana.

路易斯安那威尼斯南墨西哥湾，海礁生态学家斯科特·波特费力地清除手上的石油。

"It is very neat work," says ecologist Kylie Pitt of Griffith University in Australia, who is working on similar research.

澳大利亚格里菲斯大学的生态学家Kylie Pitt也在进行相似的研究，他说：“这是一项理想化的工作。”

Climate change is perhaps the most extreme example of what the American ecologist Garrett Hardin called a tragedy of the Commons.

气候变化也许是美国生态学家盖瑞特·哈丁(Garrett Haardin)所谓“平民的灾难”的一个最极端的例子。

But Dan Bebber, an ecologist at the environmental group Earthwatch Institute, said the study relies on improper statistical methods.

但是，来自环保组织地球观察研究所(Earthwatch Institute)的生态学家丹·贝伯(Dan Bebber)表示说，该研究依赖于不正确的统计方法。

WHEN Marine ecologist Enric Sala first set eyes on Kingman Reef, a remote spot in the Pacific, his heart started to beat like a drum.

当海洋生态学家恩里克·萨拉第一次看见太平洋遥远的金曼礁时他的心就像打鼓一样开始怦怦直跳。

As Simon Lewis, an ecologist at the University of Leeds, points out, embracing the Anthropocene as an idea means reversing this trend.

还有就是西蒙·刘易斯(Simon Lewis)，这个英国利兹大学(Simon Lewis)的生态学家指出，人类世这个理念的包含内容意味着这种趋势的转变。

Mammal hibernation matters to human medical research, says physiological ecologist Hank Harlow of the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

拉勒米的怀俄明大学的生理生态学家汉克·哈洛(Hank Harlow)称，哺乳动物的冬眠与人类的医学研究有关。

So a team led by ecologist Gregory Asner of the Carnegie Institution for Science in Stanford, California, developed a hybrid technology.

由加州斯坦佛·卡内基自然科学学院的生态学家Gregory Asner带领的团队，开发了一项混合技术。

For years, Mr. Pitman, the U.S. Marine ecologist, has searched the world's rivers and oceans for rare species of dolphins and whales.

多年以来，美国海洋生物学家Pitman足迹遍及世界各大河流和海洋，搜寻稀有的海豚和鲸鱼。

Marine ecologist Dr Thomas Wernberg, of the University of Western Australia, and colleagues, report their findings today in Current Biology.

西澳大利亚大学海洋生态学家Thomas Wernberg博士及其同事今日在《当代生物学》报告了他们的发现。