ecophysiology
noun
the branch of physiology that deals with the physiological processes of organisms with respect to their environment.
ecophysiologist
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a word derived from
ecophysiology.
Example Sentences
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“The to and fro between opposing camps has often been nothing less than vitriolic,” said Michael Cramer, an ecophysiologist at the University of Cape Town who has studied fairy circles.
From New York Times ● Nov. 1, 2022
UD “did a decent investigation. I think it's one of the first universities that we've seen actually do that,” says ecophysiologist Fredrik Jutfelt of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, one of the whistleblowers.
From Science Magazine ● Aug. 9, 2022
Henrik Hartmann, an ecophysiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry in Jena, Germany, says that one-off climate events such as wildfires could wipe out millions of newly planted trees.
From Nature ● Sep. 19, 2019
He reached out to Terrie Williams, an ecophysiologist from the University of California, Santa Cruz, who had developed a way to measure the heart rate of diving dolphins.
From Science Magazine ● Dec. 7, 2017
“The basic problem is the same for all marine organisms,” says Felix Mark, a marine ecophysiologist at the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, Germany.
From Nature ● Oct. 10, 2017
