Sentences with phrase «bear biologist»

But the long - term picture is bleak, according to the latest analysis by government bear biologists.

The new polar bear paper is by a group of authors led by Steven Amstrup, the United States Geological Survey polar bear biologist who led the government analysis of the bear's prospects.

But the bears» offshore habits, both in the water and on the ice, are poorly understood, according to Scott Schliebe and Steve Amstrup, federal polar bear biologists who have amassed several decades of bear studies between them.

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The lead author was Markus Dyck, a polar bear biologist for the Canadian territory of Nunavut.

«The fence gained its political traction quickly — with no environmental assessments,» says bear biologist Atwood.

Colorado and Oregon voted against requiring labeling for GMO foods, and bear biologists in Maine were happy that the voters there rejected a measure that would have barred the use of food bait, which the scientists say is an important tool for population management and research.

For decades bear biologists have known that bears engage in a delightful ramble variously dubbed «sumo strutting,» «cowboy walking» or, simply, the «bear dance.»

Beginning in 1944, Iowa - born biologist Norman Borlaug spent nearly 30 years in Mexican fields, crossing different kinds of wheat strains by hand.

Prompted by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a young Kenyan - born biologist named Nick Georgiadis embarked on what he called «a long and wonderful hike» across 10 African countries, taking biopsy - dart samples from 600 elephants.

Canadian born biologist Alaina Macri is our guest blogger and she explains her fascinating research to us.

Tori Robinson is a Norwegian born biologist (B.Sc) with a passion for plants and their impact on human health.

A new paper that combines paleoclimatology data for the last 56 million years with molecular genetic evidence concludes there were no biological extinctions [of Arctic marine animals] over the last 1.5 M years despite profound Arctic sea ice changes that included ice - free summers: polar bears, seals, walrus and other species successfully adapted to habitat changes that exceeded those predicted by USGS and US Fish and Wildlife polar bear biologists over the next 100 years.

It's bad enough when it's a leading polar bear biologist making such a ridiculous claim but there is no reason at all to take the scientifically baseless word of Sebastian Copeland on this matter.

Polar bear biologists emphasize the generic phrase «sea ice» whenever possible (as in this paper, «Warming - induced loss of sea ice remains the primary threat faced by polar bears.»)

USGS polar bear biologist Karyn Rode and colleagues (press release here) have tried to frame this issue as one about future survival of polar bears in the face of declining sea ice.

Almost a year after that paper's publication, a group of polar bear biologists including Stirling and Derocher published a response in Ecological Complexity.

A report by environmental photojournalist Jenny Ross, who took the disturbing photos, and polar bear biologist Dr Ian Stirling notes three such sightings, and warns that as global warming continues, «the frequency of such intraspecific predation may increase.»

Oddly, polar bear biologists chose to dispel the serious concerns over invasive research by presenting the outputs of computer models.

Bear biologists had come out against the measure, arguing that baiting was an important tool for managing problem bears and research.

There is rising concern among polar bear biologists that the big recent summertime retreats of sea ice in the Arctic are already harming some populations of these seal - hunting predators.

Andrew Derocher, a bear biologist at the University of Alberta who's also affiliated with the environmental group Polar Bears International:

While federal polar bear biologists are recommending that the Interior Department list the species as threatened throughout its range due to the Arctic ice retreat (a decision is supposed to come next month), the team doing that work told me in October there was no threat of outright extinction within a century or more.

A new paper by polar bear biologists (Rode et al. 2015) argues that terrestrial (land - based) foods are not important to polar bears now and will not be in the future — a conclusion I totally agree with — but they miss the point entirely regarding the importance of this issue.

People from the South only hear one side of the story, which is from polar bear biologists or scientists who are using predictions, using computer simulations and we don't agree with that.

And what of the hypocrisy of polar bear biologists, who harp incessantly about the horrors of fossil fuel use, when their research would literally grind to a halt without jet fuel and oil for the helicopters they use routinely for months at a time?

Many polar bear biologists have stopped putting satellite radio collars on polar bears and have turned to other methods to gather population size data, a step that means less handling stress for the bears.