Sentences with phrase «biological conservation»

Regular guided tours are an essential part of the park's focus on biological conservation, as are guest's interaction with wildlife within the sanctuary.

But the majority of that land is currently being used or was recently used for agriculture, so even if those lands are of low value for biological conservation, they serve other interests.

To determine biological conservation value for their model, the researchers used two main sets of criteria developed by environmental organizations.

In the field results of a study by Brianna Lam, a graduate student in the J.M.U. Department of Biology, published in the journal Biological Conservation in 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividum.

«We were staggered by the number of birds moving through this trade,» says Martin Gilbert, a veterinarian at the Wildlife Conservation Society who recently co-authored a study in Biological Conservation on merit releases.

Major waves of urbanization and dam construction, as well as poaching, overgrazing and overfishing, pollution, and excessive irrigation, threaten to destroy species and ecosystems that have survived 10,000 years of human land use, according to the paper, which was published last week in the December issue of Biological Conservation following an eight - year research process.

None of this added up to a major threat, but conservation managers might want to monitor these activities in remote sites and shut down certain routes that are proving too popular — and potentially too harmful to whatever is growing there, Tessler and Clark suggest in the December Biological Conservation.

However, a new study published today in Biological Conservation shows that for freshwater fish, any logging is too much.

«For me, one of the most interesting things in thinking about biological conservation is that biological corridors — large extents of land that connect reserves — are often ineffective,» he said.

Desert tortoises pace back and forth and can overheat by roadside fencing meant to help them, according to a study published in the journal Biological Conservation by the University of California, Davis, and the University of Georgia.

«Biological conservation plans often respect political boundaries more than ecological ones,» Eric Sanderson of the Wildlife Conservation Society and colleagues note.

A new analysis of worldwide customs and trade data published in the journal Biological Conservation confirms that shark - fin trade has dropped by approximately 25 percent over the last decade «Although we can't say that we fully understand the scale or the cause of the shark fin trade decline in China, it seems safe to conclude that demand for fins is waning, and that sounds like good news for sharks,» says global shark fin trade expert Shelley Clarke, a co-author on this study.

Though that can be a little difficult, Izabela Wierzbowska of Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and colleagues note in a study published in the September Biological Conservation.

But research published in Biological Conservation states otherwise.

Sailfin lizards from Sulawesi in Indonesia were originally grouped with the species from New Guinea more than 140 years ago, but the genetic survey suggests that Sulawesi dragons are a separate lineage, the team reports in the January issue of Biological Conservation.

The research, published in the scientific journal Biological Conservation, looked at 34 different plots situated in the state of Pará — an area two times that of Spain and a focal point for Amazon protection efforts in the last decades.

A new study published today in Biological Conservation shows a dramatic decline in the California overwintering population of monarchs in the past three decades.

Holzschuh's review appears in the December Biological Conservation.

The institutions that fund major conservation and rewilding projects, including the United Nations and the Global Environment Facility, have pressed for greater sensitivity and attention to human rights, insisting that projects with a strict focus on biological conservation be expanded to encompass human aid, in the form of so - called community conservation projects.

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The work is published in the most recent edition of Biological Conservation.

The results of the study were published in the journal Biological Conservation.

Based on both data sets, Bandipur has 66 tigers, the team reports this week in Biological Conservation.

They have just published descriptions of the new species in the journal Zootaxa, along with an analysis of Manila's illegal pet and bush - meat trade in the journal Biological Conservation.

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The study titled «Conservation of the endemic species of the Albertine Rift under future climate change» appears in the online version of the journal Biological Conservation.

He serves as an associate editor of PLoS One and Hystrix Italian Journal of Mammalogy and has been published in Diversity and Distributions, Biological Conservation, Journal of Applied Ecology, and Animal Conservation.

The 15 - year sterilization program has done just that, Gese and colleagues conclude in this month's Biological Conservation.

«Visitors, residents and conservationists are all hungry for successful new conservation initiatives,» Pedrono wrote in the March issue of the journal Biological Conservation.

Published in Biological Conservation, the study shows that populations of the African lion and its prey species are drastically below their natural potential inside most of Africa's protected areas (PA).

The primary threat to vultures, according to the report published today in Biological Conservation, is the presence of toxins in the carrion they consume.

These results are reported in a paper published in the international journal Biological Conservation.

Sara Morley of the Northwest Fisheries Science Center and Jeffrey Duda of the Western Fisheries Research Center contributed to the study published in Biological Conservation.

There's good news in the team's second dipper study, published in the December 2015 issue of the journal Biological Conservation: Within a year of the Elwha Dam removal, Tonra and his colleagues were able to document an increase in salmon - derived nutrients in American dippers.

In a new study in the journal Biological Conservation, researchers used satellite imagery and statistical analysis to evaluate three overlapping forest conservation strategies — protected areas, a commercial logging ban and Tibetan sacred forests — in northwest Yunnan Province.

In a related 2013 study in the journal Biological Conservation, Brandt and her colleagues reported that northwest Yunnan's old - growth sacred forests are critical for forest birds in the Himalayas, where more threatened bird species live than anywhere else in the world.

The study, published in the journal Biological Conservation, is the first to combine existing monitoring data with a back - to - basics coastal survey of the area.

The official listing of an animal as endangered can promote poaching, says Max Abensperg - Traun of the Austrian Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Environment and Water Management, author of a study on this topic that was published in the May 2009 issue of Biological Conservation.

The study, led by an international team of researchers from the University of Queensland, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), University of Northern British Columbia and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) appears in the journal Biological Conservation.

According to a study published in Biological Conservation, an international peer - reviewed journal in the discipline of conservation biology, personality traits may play a large part in the mating behaviors of the giant panda — and breeding successes or failures may depend on whether a bear's disposition is complementary to that of its prospective mate.

Indeed, the Gourma elephants» range covers an area 150 % larger than ranges reported for desert elephants in Namibia, the researchers report this month in Biological Conservation.

In Biological Conservation, Michigan State University (MSU) scientists agree with the logic of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) for down - listing the pandas — to a point.