Not exact matches
Researchers with the group pioneered methods of breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them into the wild; such techniques have since been
adopted widely
by biologists trying to bring
other wildlife species back from the brink of extinction.
But funding for conservation is finite, and one outspoken camp of
researchers, led
by ecologist and mathematician Hugh Possingham of the University of Queensland in Australia, says it is time for the global rescue operation to
adopt the mind - set of a battlefield medic: Some endangered species are far more likely to recover than
others, so we should identify those and save as many as we can.
METRICS will work with
other researchers to identify and encourage the best research practices, ensuring that well - established statistical principles and
other methods, endorsed
by all
researchers but too often ignored in practice, are widely
adopted.
Tan and
other researchers in the laboratory of Georgia Tech Professor Lin Jiang tested that hypothesis using P. fluorescens, which rapidly evolves into two general phenotypes differentiated
by the ecological niches they
adopt in static test tube microcosms.
The range of studies using zebrafish is expanding and so it is anticipated that fish will be
adopted more and more
by researchers in
other fields.