“ The map of the humanfootprint is a clear-eyed view of our influence on the Earth,” Eric Sanderson, a landscape ecologist who led the report, said in a statement

“网站上的地图清楚地显示出了我们对地球的影响，”主持这份报告的地形生态学家埃里克·桑德森在一份声明中如是说。

David is so friendly and with a good sense of humor that you can’t imagine he is a famous ecologist

戴维是如此平易近人，如此幽默诙谐，让人很难想象他居然是位赫赫有名的生态学家，

ecologist who looked for patterns in nature regarded food as an organizing influence in communities

观察自然界的格局的生态学家认为食物对群落具有组织结构的影响。

Forest ecologist Paul Alaback, a University of Montana professor who studies the alerces, said Argentine authorities could gain from Alaskas successful nature-based tourism

蒙大拿大学教授，也是研究落叶植物的森林生态学者保罗，雅勒贝克表示，阿根廷当局可以仿效阿拉斯加自然旅游业的成功之道。

Saturation of a biotope is of special interest to the ecologist

生境小区的饱和对生态学家是特别有意义的。

Professor Li Wen-Hua, a Famou Ecologist

著名生态学家李文华

Marten Scheffer is an ecologist at Wageningen University in the Netherlands. He helped lead the research.

马丁·谢弗是荷兰瓦赫宁根大学的生态学家。他协助领导了这项研究。

Stephanie Jenouvrier is a penguin ecologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She said that Emperor penguins need secure sea ice to reproduce, to feed and to molt. Molting is the replacement of their old feathers with new ones.

斯蒂芬妮·杰诺威耶是伍兹霍尔海洋研究所的企鹅生态学家。她说帝企鹅需要安全的海冰来繁殖、进食和换羽。换羽是指用它们用新羽毛换掉旧羽毛。

Ryan Kelly is an ecologist at the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington in Seattle. He works in a laboratory there with other researchers. They study the genetic material released by living creatures.

雷恩·凯利（Ryan Kelly）是华盛顿大学西雅图分校海洋和环境学院的一位生态学家。他和其他研究人员在该校的一个实验室工作。他们研究生物释放出的遗传物质。

Patrick Moore is an ecologist and former Greenpeace president. He supports production of golden rice. He says there should not even be debate about the issue while children starve.

帕特里克·摩尔（Patrick Moore）是一位生态学家，也是绿色和平组织的前任总裁。他支持生产黄金大米。他说，当孩子们还在挨饿时，甚至都不该应该争论这个问题。

“This is by far — by thousands of times — the cheapest climate change solution” and the most effective, he said. Crowther is a climate change ecologist at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich.

他说：“这是迄今为止最为廉价的气候变化解决方案，也是效果最好的。”克劳瑟是苏黎世瑞士联邦理工学院的气候变化生态学家。

“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。

“Hey, Samer, ” says Sarig Gafny, an Israeli ecologist in a floppy, green hat, “check this little fellow out. ”

“嗨，萨莫尔，”戴着一顶松软绿色帽子的以色列生态学家萨瑞格·格夫尼说，“核实一下这个小家伙。”

“It’s a very early successional plant, ” says Joseph Wright, an ecologist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI).

“它是一种从很早就开始演化的植物，”史密森尼热带研究所（SmithsonianTropicalResearchInstitute：STRI）的生态学者约瑟夫·怀特（JosephWright）说。

In 1968 the ecologist Garrett Hardin wrote a paper called “The Tragedy of the Commons, ” required reading for biology students ever since.

1986年生态学家加勒特.哈丁写了一篇题为“公众的悲剧”的论文，从此以后每位生物学学生都被要求阅读这篇论文。

Buckthorn, garlic mustard and many other invasive species do not pose as big a threat as some scientists think, says ecologist Mark Davis

MarkDavis说道：不想很多科学家所预期的，泻鼠李大蒜，芥菜和其他一些外来物种并没有带来很大的问题。

“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KyliePitt也在进行相似的研究，他说：“这是一项理想化的工作。”

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（EarthwatchInstitute）的生态学家丹·贝伯（DanBebber）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。

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。

To an ecologist , this looks like an ecosystem whose biodiversity has expanded radically.

对于一个生态学家，这看起来像一个生态系统的生物多样性急剧增加。

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。

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（SimonLewis），这个英国利兹大学（SimonLewis）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。

nine years later, Purdue University wildlife ecologist Durward Allen started to study them.

九年以后，普渡大学的野生生物生态学家德沃德·艾伦（DurwardAllen）开始对它们展开研究。

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（HankHarlow）称，哺乳动物的冬眠与人类的医学研究有关。

Associate Professor Felicia Keesing, an ecologist at Bard College in Annandale, New York, is the lead author of the study.

来自纽约州安嫩代尔巴德学院的生态学者，FeliciaKeesing副教授，是这个研究项目的主要负责人。

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。

You’re listening to Rebecca Lewison. She is a conservation ecologist at San Diego State University.

您正在收听的是州立圣迭戈大学保育生物学家丽贝卡·刘易森的讲话。

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（GarrettHaardin）所谓“平民的灾难”的一个最极端的例子。

Ecological risks should not be underestimated either, says Wei Wei, an ecologist here at CAS’s Institute of Botany.

生态方面的危险也不应该低估，中国科学院植物研究所的一位生态学家魏伟认为。