Sentences with phrase «wildlife disease study»

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Reductions in biodiversity from illegal wildlife trade can have other substantial negative human health impacts, including the loss of potential sources of pharmaceuticals, experimental models for studying disease, crop pollination and micronutrients for humans lacking alternative sources of protein.

No one know how many birds succumb each year to the wildlife trade since much of the trafficking is illegal, but within Southeast Asia alone, it is likely «in the order of tens of millions,» says Kelly Edmunds, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in England who investigates the emerging infectious diseases amongst bird sellers in Asia and was not involved in the study.

The bill also provides $ 500,000 to study new and emerging wildlife diseases and adds $ 1 million to USGS's $ 26 - million volcano hazards programs, specifically to repair and upgrade systems that focus on monitoring «high - threat» volcanoes.

Sonia Hernandez, an associate professor of wildlife diseases, imported geckos from Indonesia to study how they respond to antibiotics.

In the new study, a team lead by Isabelle - Anne Bisson, a conservation biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C., set out to assess whether information on wildlife health could be used to predict the emergence of disease in humans.

The researchers hope their study leads to better measures for modeling and predicting infectious disease transmission, but there are still open questions about the human - wildlife interface of disease.

Colorado State University biologists say this sporadic ebb and flow of prairie dog plague is an ideal model for the study of rare infectious zoonotic disease — disease that can jump from wildlife to humans — like MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and Ebola.

The findings may influence the way wildlife managers look after small populations, says Hogg, whose team reported its findings online 28 February in Proceedings of the Royal Society: B. Managers often like to keep animals away from other populations to minimize the spread of disease, he says, but the study shows «it makes sense to manage with both disease and genetics in mind.»

We study the diversity of life histories and evolutionary adaptations and their limits (including diseases) of free - ranging and captive wildlife species, and their interactions with people and their environment in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

We study the diversity of life histories and evolutionary adaptations and their limits, including diseases, of free - ranging and captive wildlife species, and their interactions with people and their environment in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

Last April, at a conference resort next to the Golden Gate Bridge, 52 scientists from around the world spent three days doing case studies on: 1) wildlife diseases with vectors such as mosquitoes, 2) wildlife diseases without vectors, such as chytrid fungus in amphibians, 3) destructive island invasives such as rodents and ants.

We tried to keep an open mind but some of the ideas we had — including an aberrant immune reaction — were beyond what we thought is amenable to study in wildlife diseases, given that so much less is known about wildlife biology than human or laboratory animal biology.

It is not only illegal but more and more studies are pointing to how they are killing so much of our wildlife population and our birds and they are transmitting more and more diseases.»

She studied Animal Biology at UC Davis with an emphasis on infectious diseases and wildlife.

The study adds more fuel to a tense fight between conservationists, who view free - roaming cats as super-predators that spread disease and devastate wildlife, and cat advocates who argue that popular programs to neuter feral cats are the most humane way to handle them.

The studies reflect a growing interest in how microscopic companions influence health and disease in both humans and animals, including wildlife species.

We research the ecology, evolution, and epidemiology of vector - borne, wildlife, and zoonotic diseases using field - based studies and molecular tools.

A University of Nebraska study released last year found that feral cats were responsible for the extinction of 33 species of birds worldwide, that even well fed cats in so - called «managed» cat colonies will kill, that feral cats prey more on native wildlife than on other invasive creatures, and that most feral cats (between 62 and 80 percent) tested positive for toxoplasmosis (a disease with serious implications for pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems).

Studio items such as the manipulation of photographs including those of John Deakin, Peter Stark and Peter Beard; reproductions of Muybridge's pioneering studies of the human figure and animals in motion; images torn from books, magazines and newspapers of skin diseases, war atrocities, boxers, wildlife, art, lovers and friends all of which are of intense interest and relevance in the field of contemporary art practice.

A new E.U. animal health law, expected next year, could help, says geneticist Matthew Fisher of Imperial College London, who studies wildlife diseases.

The chikungunya forecasts were made as part of the larger Cornell Climate and Disease Program, which considers risk to humans and wildlife, according to Drew Harvell, who studies coral disease at CDisease Program, which considers risk to humans and wildlife, according to Drew Harvell, who studies coral disease at Cdisease at Cornell.

A University of Nebraska study released last year found that feral cats were responsible for the extinction of 33 species of birds worldwide, that even well fed cats in so - called «managed» cat colonies will kill, that feral cats prey more on native wildlife than on other invasive creatures, and that most feral cats (between 62 and 80 percent) tested positive for toxoplasmosis (a disease with serious implications for pregnant women and people with weakened immune systems).