Sentences with phrase «by conservation biologists»

Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide.

The reserve is one of the largest in the world and has been heralded as a huge success, but this study, led by conservation biologist Leah Gerber of Arizona State University in Tempe, highlights one possible down - side to the reserve.

William Murdoch's counterargument, termed the plant self - defense hypothesis by conservation biologist John Terborgh, suggests that food (bottom - up control) has the strongest influence, that the world may be green because not all plants are palatable to herbivores, and that predators are unnecessary for ecosystem regulation.

Not exact matches

Titled «The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation,» the book — published in March 2018 — is written by a collection of authors from zoos and aquariums, including Shedd Aquarium's Vice President of Conservation Research Dr. Chuck Knapp, as well as an impressive roster of university - based historians, biologists, ethicists and social scientists.

So researchers led by Ullas Karanth, a tiger biologist at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York City, turned to poop.

By the end I was hooked: I knew that I wanted to continue working as a biologist in the realm of international cooperation, contributing to nature conservation and the transfer of knowledge.

The work done by Bárbara is important, as it provides a framework and a simulation tool that many ecologists and conservation biologists will be able to use.»

Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley (and Harmon - Threatt's mentor), has shown that the diversity of pollinators drops with increasing distance from wild habitat, as does the number of visits by wild bees to flowering crops.

In a richly illustrated, 400 - page tome, Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States, published by Oxford University Press, the groups present what conservation biologist Peter Kareiva of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls «the most extraordinary assemblage of biodiversity data ever published.»

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

«By understanding how this animal adapts to changes in the environment, we can determine what we really need to be concerned about and what we really should be doing,» says Stephen DeStefano, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of the new book, Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia (Harvard University Press, 2010).

Revive & Restore expects to see much more progress in the coming decade given the recent focus on the topic by geneticists, conservation biologists and environmentalists.

«A long list of silly examples of complications caused by poor taxonomic governance» pushed conservation biologist Stephen Garnett of Charles Darwin University in Darwin to cowrite the piece.

«The rainforests of Western Equatorial Africa contain most of the world's gorillas and about one - third of all chimpanzees, and gorillas in particular are being severely and negatively impacted by human activities across their range,» said Dr. Fiona Maisels, WCS Conservation Biologist and a contributor to the plan.

Joel Berger, a biologist at the University of Montana in Missoula and the Wildlife Conservation Society, headquartered in New York, and lead author of the study, says that the work was inspired by an older study that found increases in wildlife poaching in oil and gas boom towns.

Conservation biologists have been profoundly struck by the implications of Paul Martin's work.

The data collected by observers over the past century allow researchers, conservation biologists and other interested individuals to study the long - term health and status of bird populations across North America.

«[Brazil's] borders are hard to control and its extraordinary biodiversity is often seen as easy money by trafficking networks,» says Juan Carlos Cantú, a biologist in Mexico City who manages the Mexico office of Defenders of Wildlife, a conservation group in Washington, D.C. Birds are especially vulnerable, and parrots top the list of threatened species because of the high demand for them in the pet market.

For example, last September Possingham, Kerrie Wilson (a biologist at the University of Queensland), and a team of researchers assessed the cost and outcomes of various conservation actions in 39 «Mediterranean» ecoregions identified by the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF).

But for a conservation biologist like Phalan, many of the greatest and most important challenges are in the tropics, in locations that can only be reached by air.

In the new study, a team lead by Isabelle - Anne Bisson, a conservation biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C., set out to assess whether information on wildlife health could be used to predict the emergence of diseasconservation biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C., set out to assess whether information on wildlife health could be used to predict the emergence of diseasConservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C., set out to assess whether information on wildlife health could be used to predict the emergence of disease in humans.

Written by a commission of 25 biologists and industrialists brought together by conservation bodies, it calls on the government to revoke all planning permission for peat cutting on bogs with conservation value, and to pay compensation where due.

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.

The new study, led by Martinsen, was a collaboration with scientists at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, the American Museum of Natural History, the National Park Service, the University of Georgia, the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee — and UVM biologist and malaria expert Joseph Schall.

This image by Hara Woltz, a conservation biologist from Columbia University (US), was taken while researching ecological interactions between species and landscapes in the archipelago, and depicts a Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) on Santa Cruz Island utilizing a human road.

Alarmed by the loss, University of Washington conservation biologist Samuel Wasser decided to fight back.

In 1997, Erik Meijaard, a co-author of the paper and a biologist with Borneo Futures, a conservation group based in Bandar Seri Begawan, led a team that followed up on a 1935 report by a colonial - era zoologist.

As production of shale gas soars, the industry's effects on nature and wildlife remain largely unexplored, according to a study by a group of conservation biologists published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on August 1.

Also, although climate change is a concern for conservation biologists, it is not the focus for most researchers (at present), largely I think because of the severity and immediacy of the damage caused by other threats.

April 26, 2016 — A coalition of wolf - conservation groups, environmental organizations and a retired federal wolf biologist announced a court settlement requiring the Fish and Wildlife Service to prepare its long - delayed recovery plan for Mexican gray wolves by November 2017.

This workshop is designed to train biologists and conservation activists to advocate for wildlife in the decision making process by providing the best available scientific evidence in an effective manner.

Any remaining controversy over feral cats is further fueled by fringe conservation biologists who claim that the easiest and best way to save birds is to round up and kill outdoor cats.

«Tom Bly, fisheries biologist with the AGFC said that feral cats are considered an invasive species by conservation agencies and organizations nationwide.

We're leading a movement to overcome local and national challenges caused by free - roaming cats, bringing about change by conveying the most current scientific information, promoting science - based policies, and working with diverse stakeholders such as animal shelters, veterinarians, wildlife rehabilitators, and conservation biologists.

According to TWS, the «workshop [was] designed to train biologists and conservation activists to advocate for wildlife in the decision making process by providing the best available scientific evidence in an effective manner.»

«Because western society's orientations toward wildlife is becoming more moralistic and less utilitarian,» explain the authors of a study recently published online in PLoS ONE, «conservation biologists must develop innovative and collaborative ways to address the threats posed by feral cats rather than assuming wholesale removal of feral cats through euthanasia is a universally viable solution.»

From Tierra del Fuego... After observing and interacting with the methods used by a group of conservation biologists working inKarukinka1 Natural Park in Tierra del Fuego (Chilean Patagonia), Camila Marambio, an independent curator, was stirred to question the uselesness of art.

«I think that Curaçao has been really lucky so far,» we were told by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist who did her doctoral research on fishing practices around coral reefs on the island and now runs the Waitt Institute, a conservation group helping Caribbean islands develop «Blue Halo» marine zoning plans designed to allow communities to «use the ocean without using it up.»

Kareiva is part a broad and deep lineage of conservation biologists and ecologists whose work and world views were deeply shaped by Paine.

Toughie, living alone in recent years in a special habitat at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, was one of several dozen Rabbs» frogs and tadpoles captured in Panama in 2005 and brought to Atlanta by biologists practicing the emerging art of «captive conservation» — trying to safeguard this (and other) tropical frog species ahead of the fungal holocaust.

A Facebook post by the environmental journalist John Platt directed me to an excellent Twitter list of — at last count — 89 conservation biologists, journalists, educators and other people focused on using new communication tools to foster wildlife conservation and animal welfare.

This was the question asked at a symposium organized by the Wildlife Conservation Society at Cambridge University this week, attended by about 80 synthetic biologists and conservationists.

The work, led by Kashmira Kakati, a wildlife biologist, and financed by the Government of Assam and a group of conservation organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society, suggest that the forest is home to a range of valuable species, scientists familiar with the work said in announcing tconservation organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society, suggest that the forest is home to a range of valuable species, scientists familiar with the work said in announcing tConservation Society, suggest that the forest is home to a range of valuable species, scientists familiar with the work said in announcing the findings.

The last session happened to fall on Dec. 12, the day the Paris climate agreement was adopted, and we connected by Skype with participants including Bill McKibben, Bjorn Lomborg, Kelly Levin of the World Resources Institute and M. Sanjayan, the conservation biologist featured here in the past.

To be sure you don't get the idea that only investors in nuclear technology are for this, please click back to an important «Open Letter to Environmentalists on Nuclear Energy» signed by 75 notable conservation biologists and posted just over a year ago by Barry Brook, chairman of environmental sustainability at the University of Tasmania and co-author of a paper in Conservation Biology that was the focus ofconservation biologists and posted just over a year ago by Barry Brook, chairman of environmental sustainability at the University of Tasmania and co-author of a paper in Conservation Biology that was the focus ofConservation Biology that was the focus of the letter:

That approach is being promoted by a team of climate scientists and biologists, led by Stephanie Pfirman of Barnard College, who have proposed that Arctic nations develop a conservation plan creating a «sea ice refuge» from northwest Greenland west into Canada's Arctic archipelago where thick floes routinely persist through the summer, and are expected to persist through this century.

The latest example is the barefaced bulbul, a songbird with a nearly bald head found in a remote region of Laos by biologists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and University of Melbourne.

The regulations and reef «zoning,» in essence, came about after months of discussions involving fishing communities, marine biologists and other interested parties, facilitated by the Waitt Institute, a nonprofit conservation organization.

At an Aspen Environmental Forum this summer, Marris annoyed eminent conservation biologist E.O. Wilson by talking about expanding our definition of nature, perhaps even to include invasive species.

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.