Sentences with phrase «bear biologists including»

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

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To figure out the purpose of these patterns, Tim Caro, a biologist at the University of California, Davis, and colleagues collected photographs of 164 terrestrial predators from six families of predators — canids, felids, ursids (bears), mustelids (which include weasels, otters, and badgers), viverrids (which include civets, binturongs, and other catlike animals), and herpestids (mongooses and meerkats).

Around 80 percent of the institute's scientists are either returning Singaporeans or foreign - born — mostly from the United States, Europe, Australia, and Asia — and include chemists, biologists, computer scientists, electrical and mechanical engineers, and medical doctors.

Cook's illustrious subjects include the umbrella - bearing British cosmologist Sir Martin Rees of the University of Cambridge, the wrinkle - faced late naturalist and flea expert Miriam Rothschild, and the biologist Christiane Nüsslein - Volhard (left) of the Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology in Tübingen, Germany, who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for codiscovering key genes that shape embryonic development.

July 31, 2011, 11:35 a.m. Updated There's been a rush to all manner of judgments over the strange case of Charles Monnett, the biologist for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement who provided a powerful talking point for climate campaigners, including former Vice President Al Gore, with his description of several drowned polar bears spotted during an aerial marine - mammals survey in 2004 — an observation enshrined in a short paper published in Polar Biology in 2006.

While Mr. Kempthorne and Dale Hall, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, said Wednesday that they saw no separate risk to polar bears from oil and gas activity, the latest assessment of the species for the International Conservation Union, by a group of experts including Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, did include such activity in a list of threats, including toxic contaminants, shipping and recreational viewing.

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.

A wildlife biologist is using many techniques to find out, including stalking muskoxen in a polar bear costume.