Sentences with phrase «mappr conservation tool»

No - till practices were first introduced as a soil conservation tool, and to decrease labor requirements and fuel use.

Explore the current community projects, including Low Impact Development outreach and the MAPPR conservation tool.

Making a case to government officials that oral vaccines are necessary conservation tools took decades of fieldwork, genetic testing and meetings upon meetings.

We highlighted a powerful conservation tool that simultaneously brings social security for local livelihoods and biodiversity conservation at large spatial scales.

Wildlife officials often used culling as a conservation tool in South Africa from the 1960s to the 1990s.

Harnessing an invasive fish species sounded like a promising conservation tool to help reverse the destruction wreaked by zebra mussels on endangered native mollusks in the Great Lakes — except that it won't work, says a University of Guelph ecologist.

«Invasive species not best conservation tool, study shows: Make matters worse for native mollusks.»

Their solution: ordinary rectangular art erasers made from polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, a common conservation tool used to remove dirt from old books without damaging the pages.

But, say the authors, AIS's full potential as a conservation tool is yet to be tapped.

For Possingham, who thinks assisted colonization will become a «pragmatic» conservation tool to prevent extinctions, results of the trial can't come soon enough.

«Captive breeding program are rather a conservation tool than a conservation goal.

A big part of what we do at Revive & Restore is bring together scientists conducting cutting - edge genomics research with the conservationists who are working in the field so that these new technologies may become an instrumental part of the twenty - first century conservation tool kit.

The removal of introduced rats from island ecosystems is a powerful conservation tool to protect threatened species, and has been adopted worldwide with ~ 500 successful eradications reported.

Removing invasive rats from islands is a powerful conservation tool, and practitioners are now targeting larger islands for rat eradication.

An integrated approach for assessing translocation as an effective conservation tool for Hawaiian monk seals.

At Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, a Research and Development Grant of $ 349,988 will enable the development of conservation tools to combat the formation of so - called metal soap — which causes deterioration to paintings — on works by Georgia O'Keeffe.

An American biologist, Russell Mittermeier, had the idea of using Mr. Nash's precise drawings as a conservation tool.

In our view, the IWC should not adopt any proposal that forfeits the enormous gains embodied in the commercial whaling moratorium, the best conservation tool ever enacted to ensure the recovery of whale populations and prevent their future decline.

Another valuable tool in the soil conservation tool kit is no - till farming.

He also invents, makes, and sells bookbinding and conservation tools.

Not exact matches

For example, a kayak manufacturer who donates a percentage of its boat sales directly to a national river conservation organization not only supports a worthwhile cause, but also creates an effective marketing tool for itself.

Through a roughly corresponding period Alberta has been considering the use of conservation offsets as a tool of resource management.

It should never be possible for a reasonable observer to think that Notre Dame cares passionately about energy conservation but reservedly or half - heartedly about the need — the moral imperative — to use the law (and other policy tools) to protect unborn children.

The association provides guidelines and voluntary tools for vintners and growers to improve both energy and water conservation.

The guide uses best practices from multiple sources including industry, academic and government experts to address water conservation and efficiency, water quality protection, soil conservation and management, air quality protection, human resource management, energy conservation and efficiency, integrated pest management, weather monitoring and preventive planning, selection of appropriate insurance policies and tools, and proactive business planning and management.

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service awards a two - year, $ 607,500 grant to CSWA to evaluate environmental services accounting tools and increase their use (2007 - 2009)

The data that birders submit to eBird becomes a powerful tool for bird conservation.

Soil composting reduces the need for chemical fertilizers, helps soil retain moisture, reduces the amount of greenhouse gases produced in landfills and even serves as an educational tool for children about recycling and conservation.

For the first time, the «Mapping and Prioritizing Parcels for Resilience» web tool, or MAPPR, brings together a wealth of newly available map data, allowing users to quickly and efficiently identify specific parcels whose protection would most contribute to biodiversity conservation and climate resilience.

Mass Audubon's commitment to this innovative digital resource spans the organization's departments, from Ecological Management and Land Conservation to our «Shaping the Future of Your Community» program, which will be conducting a series of MAPPR workshops to help communities use this powerful new tool to identify which parcels are most important to protect, while guiding development to less sensitive locations.

«Whether a natural resource professional, land trust volunteer, or local conservation advocate, users will find MAPPR to be an efficient and effective tool for gaining valuable insights into targeted land conservation in the 21st century,» said Jeff Collins, Mass Audubon Director of Ecological Management and project lead.

The organizations will offer four workshops, as well as training on a new conservation mapping tool.

«Year after year, attendees learn new tools and techniques, meet future public and private conservation partners, experience a powerful sense of community, and come away inspired to do more.»

Worries about health effects, privacy and cost are fueling growing opposition to wireless, digital «smart meters» that utilities around the country are installing on homes and businesses and touting as key energy conservation and grid reliability tools.

The authors predict that this approach will prove to be an important tool in making critical conservation - related decisions.

The work done by Bárbara is important, as it provides a framework and a simulation tool that many ecologists and conservation biologists will be able to use.»

To discover this, Hui Liu, Gene Robinson, and Eric Jakobsson of the University of Illinois developed new computational tools to analyze patterns of gene conservation across a wide range of animals, for genes activated and inhibited in the honey bee brain by exposure to a chemical communication signal that triggers alarm.

«I believe this modeling tool has good potential to support participatory management and conservation of biodiversity in the Amazon region,» said Carlos Durigan, the director of the Wildlife Conservation Societconservation of biodiversity in the Amazon region,» said Carlos Durigan, the director of the Wildlife Conservation SocietConservation Society in Brazil.

Strips of land linking wildlife reserves are one of the most widely used tools in conservation.

Among the first scientists to promote gastronomy as a tool to combat invasion was Joe Roman, a conservation ecologist at the University of Vermont.

Translocation of individuals back to the wild is one of many important tools that conservation biologists use to recover endangered and threatened species.

«This data will be used as a predictive management tool to inform conservation efforts to restore condor populations, particularly with regard to emerging threats such as climate change and wind energy impacts,» added Sheppard

The study also shows that wetlands, thought of as a useful tool for conservation and carbon sequestration, may require consistent flooding to realize environmental benefits from organic matter accumulation.

«Water pricing as an economic incentive for water conservation gained popularity in the 1990s as a policy intervention tool that could be used to affect the environmentally, socially, and economically efficient use of water,» he said.

Although the technique is still in the proof - of - principle stage, it «could be an immensely powerful tool in implementing conservation measures for the most at - risk bird populations with fine - scale precision,» says Jeff Wells of the Boreal Songbird Initiative in Seattle, Washington.

«This is one more tool we can add to our tool box to help us combat this invasive species,» said Brian Smith, a graduate student in the UF / IFAS wildlife ecology and conservation department and lead author of a new study documenting the radio - tagging experiment.

It lays the foundation for genomic exploration of sharks and vastly expands genetic tools for their conservation, said Stanhope.

We hope that the tools we have developed will allow researchers, students, managers, and the public to better understand how these threats are impacting species, so that we can make informed conservation and management decisions» concluded Dr. Aide.

His paper proposes one tool, the «systems behaviour chart», which conservation managers can use to focus their decisions, goals and interventions on the purpose of conservation work, in order to act faster and with greater impact to save species.

«As increased ship traffic begins to congest an increasingly ice free Arctic, the conservation sector must capitalize on tools such as these to protect its currently pristine seas.»