Sentences with phrase «avian populations»

Utilize scientific research and seasonal planning techniques to manage nuisance avian populations using hazing techniques, structural deterrent systems, chemical repellent spray, reproduction next depredation, trapping and habitat modification strategies.

Using this information, the scientists were able to determine whether and to what extent the virus first affected various avian populations, and whether the birds» numbers have recovered or are still declining.

The finding is exciting «because it suggests that the seasonal flu vaccine boosts antibody responses and may provide some measure of protection against a new pandemic strain that could emerge from the avian population,» said senior study author Paul G. Thomas, PhD, an Associate Member in the Department of Immunology at St. Jude.

Elsewhere, climate change - induced drought shrinks bird habitats in Turkey, while worldwide manmade noise makes it increasingly difficult for birds to communicate, creating another means of avian population decrease.

Healy and March are soon forced to work together to figure out where Amelia has gone, who is after her and just what the hell all of this has to do with a dead porn star, the District Attorney and the smog death of L.A.'s avian population.

His other hobbies include making birdhouses for Tamriel's avian population, as well as performing impossible, deadly horse stunts.

Explore Wave Hill with Tod Winston, Manager of National Audubon's Plants for Birds program, to see native plants that provide food, cover, and nesting sites for our local avian population.

Not exact matches

We're working hard to protect Australia's thriving agricultural industry from a range of threats, including avian influenza, Foot and Mouth Disease and depleted world bee populations.

Daily supply of turkey meat continues plentiful after recovery one year ago from losses of three percent of the turkey population from avian influenza.

Not to worry though, because what chance is there that our scientific study results could even be related to foreign relations, other than, you know, research on global warming or acid rain or fish populations or avian - flu transmission or mad - cow - disease transmission, or ozone depletion or....

Then Westerners arrived and bird populations started to disappear more quickly due to a combination of threats, including habitat loss, introduction of invasive species and the arrival of diseases such as avian malaria.

Physician Rachel David, a CSL spokeswoman, says the Australian vaccine is part of her country's cache of supplies to protect its population in the event of an avian influenza outbreak.

One threat to albatross populations is the mosquito - borne disease known as avian pox virus.

Knowing that researchers in the early 20th century had shown that avian predators can wipe out an entire population of cicadas that emerges out of sequence, Koenig decided to take a look at how bird populations might affect the insects» cycles.

With the World Health Organization's recent prediction that an avian flu outbreak could infect up to 30 percent of the world's population, that kind of lag time could mean thousands of unnecessary deaths.

It has become almost common wisdom that the virus that caused the 1918 flu pandemic was an avian strain introduced into the human population shortly before the pandemic erupted.

The human influenza virus H1N1 that caused the 2009 flu pandemic, and H9N2, an avian influenza virus that is endemic in bird populations in Asia, are close cousins — close enough that they can swap genes if they find themselves in the same cell, resulting in new viruses that are a patchwork of the parent strains.

«We're interested in looking at how the drought is affecting their populations and also the distributions throughout the valley in addition to being concerned about the spread of avian influenza,» Buler said.

Human, avian, and classical swine lineage viruses are co-circulating in North American swine populations, generating novel reassortants and leading to hundreds of zoonotic infections (e.g., H3N2v).

Many wild populations of animals and plants are profoundly threatened by exotic diseases — chytrid fungus in frogs, sylvatic plague in black - footed ferrets, Rapid Ohi'a Death in the keystone ohi'a trees of Hawaii, avian malaria in the forest birds of Hawaii.

He has particular interests in (1) the use of ancient DNA methods to document changes in genetic variation through time and phylogenetic relationships of extinct or endangered organisms (especially of the recently extinct Hawaiian avifauna); (2) the use of highly variable genetic markers to measure genetic structure and relatedness, and to ascertain mating systems, in natural populations, and (3) the use of genetics to study the evolutionary interactions between hosts, vectors and infectious disease organisms (e.g., major projects on introduced avian malaria in native Hawaiian birds and invasive chytrid fungus in amphibians).

No evidence shows that cats play a sustained role in transmitting the virus, the AVMA reports, noting, «There have been no known cases of human avian influenza [AI] resulting from exposure to sick cats, and there have been no outbreaks of AI among domestic cat populations.»

[1] And the trend couldn't be explained by the population of swallows living nearby (which increased over the study period), traffic volume (which «either did not change significantly or increased, depending on the metric used»), or the number of avian scavengers in the area («as none showed significant increases in our study area»).

MacLean, M.M., et al., «The usefulness of sensitivity analysis for predicting the effects of cat predation on the population dynamics of their avian prey.»

New research finds a close connection between the flu that devastated the horse population in North America in the 1870s and the avian flu of that period.

I think that efforts to halt diseases such as avian flu are counterproductive, as they only lead to yet more excessive human population and merely delay the day of abrupt environmental collapse that will terminate more human life than saved by such efforts.

Med fruit fly, Avian Flu, H1N1, soil depletion, over population, on and on, and they come around as frequently as new claims of free energy or over unity machines.