Sentences with phrase «because wild relatives»

Even though crop species have been moved all over the world, he says the historic home ranges of many crops are still relevant because wild relatives persist there.

Because wild relatives of the galliform chicken species are plentiful in Africa, this study required researchers to sift through the remnants of many small bird species to identify bones with the unique sizes and shapes that are characteristic of domestic chickens.

Not exact matches

Green sea turtle Nickel has a safe home at Shedd, but some of her wild relatives are at risk because they can be accidentally caught, and drowned, in fishing gear targeting shrimp or other commercial seafood species.

And crop wild relatives are possibly even more vulnerable because they've tended to be overlooked both by agricultural scientists and the conservation community.

Because enhancing the conservation of crop wild relatives is one of the United Nations's Sustainable Development Goals, the authors suggest that the study's numbers could be used as a baseline for measuring progress toward meeting conservation goals.

Lost traits would be difficult to re-create, he says, because modern livestock lack living wild relatives — a reserve of potentially useful genes that has saved agricultural crops in the past.

Because pre-modern agriculture was dairy - free, both camps agree that our Paleolithic relatives did not chase down wild animals, hoping upon hope that the animal was both a female and lactating.

We recognize the wealth of a land based economy because we have lived it, and, in our community on the White Earth reservation, we will continue to work to keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers present for all relatives.