Sentences with phrase «affect animal populations»

The study, recently published in the journal Ecology Letters, reveals that contrary to expectation, the massive glaciers that expanded and contracted across the region affected animal populations in different ways at different times.

The ongoing epidemic of Ebola in West Africa has raised several questions about how the disease affects the animal population, and in particular, the risk to household pets.

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• The building and maintenance of muscle in comparison to animal - based whey protein; • Its superior attributes of the amino acid leucine; • Increased satiety; • Ability to affect skeletal muscle hypertrophy in a geriatric population and • Slower absorption than whey to aid in athletic endurance.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

Katzner said these findings suggest that environmental assessments of alternative energy facilities like Altamont Pass should take into consideration that animal populations affected by wind turbines might not be just local.

Global loss of vagility alters a key ecological trait of animals that affects not only population persistence but also ecosystem processes such as predator - prey interactions, nutrient cycling, and disease transmission.

The researchers then fed the lysozyme - rich milk to young goats and pigs to see if it affected the bacteria population in the animals guts.

So when algal populations explode, say, because of warming water, domoic acid concentrations increase in these animals to a point that they affect the sea lions that feast on them.

If confirmed and extended to animals, the new findings could profoundly affect biomedicine as well as population genetics.

The animals» surprising genetic history could affect how they are protected under the U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA), which does not have any provisions for protecting genetically mixed populations.

Tweaking the gut's microbial population can affect anxious behaviors, animal studies have shown, which suggests that gut bacteria could play a causal role in anxiety.

But he says the results are still concerning, because sound can travel great distances underwater, potentially affecting the behavior of entire populations of bottom - dwelling animals.

Cat - induced allergies affect about 20 percent of the U.S. population, according to studies, and is caused by a protein found in the animals» saliva and dander (dead skin cells.)

They reported that although the total bacteria population was not affected by fat diet, Bifidobacterium / Lactobacillus and Clostridia spp. were only enriched in animals fed low and moderate fat diets, but not in high fat diets.

In addition to harboring diseases that affect humans, such as ringworm, distemper, toxoplasmosis, leptospirosis and rabies, infected pets have the potential to transmit diseases into wild populations of animals.

In addition to the literature review, focus groups and interviews were conducted with hospital staff, family caregivers and animal - assisted therapy handlers, to glean vital information regarding childhood cancer epidemiology and treatment, the well - being of patients and families who are affected by childhood cancer, the applications of AAT for various populations in need, the state of AAT effectiveness research, and the considerations that need to be made when incorporating therapy animals into clinical settings.

Removal of the hormone - producing testicles and ovaries may improve cats» health in many ways and certainly helps to deal with a potentially exploding animal population, but it reduces your pet's metabolic rate and allows food to affect weight more directly, as in men and women after andropause and menopause.

Studies show that the animals caught by predators are generally weaker and more diseased than those killed by manmade sources.6, 7 One study found that «birds killed by cats had significantly lower mass, fat scores, and pectoral muscle mass scores» than birds of the same species killed by cars or windows.8 These studies indicate that cats are catching what some biologists refer to as the «doomed surplus» 9 — animals who would not have lived, and so whose death does not affect overall population levels.

Learn how to set up a ward where affected kitties can be isolated from other animal populations and treated until they are cleared of the disease and ready for adoption.

In this role, Nicole gained extensive experience working with the most vulnerable populations of animals including those affected by extreme cruelty and neglect.

Wildlife species are the only carriers of the disease, with occasional cases affecting domestic animal and human populations

Read the full article, which includes details on efforts to measure how animal control programs can affect different segments of cat populations.

The study will also examine if and how animal - assisted therapy sessions with this population affect the therapy dogs.

IVDD is one of the most common neurological disorders in companion animals and reportedly affects 2 % of the domestic dog population.

Distemper affects other animals as well; raccoons, coyotes, wolves, foxes, ferrets, skunks, weasels, mink, badgers, hyenas, and jackals can also catch the disease and a population of lions in Africa has been decimated by it.

Cory Smith, director of companion animal public policy at the Humane Society of the United States, said habitat loss and other human - related causes affect bird and wildlife populations.

Morris Animal Foundation has funded several research projects that have increased our knowledge of how this complex population affects the health of horses.

They zealously screened their dogs, eliminating not only affected animals but the healthy carriers from the breeding population.

Learn how to set up a ward where affected kitties can be isolated from other animal populations and treated until they are cleared of the disease and ready for adoption in this 25 minute presentation from the 2015 American Pets Alive!

Because of the strong genetic component, the only realistic way to prevent von Willebrand disease is to remove clinically affected animals from the breeding population.

Researchers with the University of Adelaide in Australia hope to identify populations of retrovirus - and chlamydia - free koalas to increase understanding of the pathogens affecting these animals and assist in conservation efforts.

These parts might not have very high human populations, but they tend to live near the shores, and the local plants and animals can be affected by these rapid changes.

changing migration patterns of birds and other animals that affect by direct means (foraging, excrement) and indirect means (control of pests, affects on populations of beneficial insects such as bee populations and so on) 5.

We should not risk iron fertilization on the scale needed to affect global CO2 levels or animal populations.

The opportunity to study exactly how these animals affect the landscape and its plant, animal and insect populations is tremendous.

More than that, other features can affect sexual selection (e.g., local mortality, population density, etc.) and further influence gendered choosiness, so any kind of categorical, essentialist Mars - Venus distinction is hardly the right way to conceptualize animal sexualities.