Sentences with phrase «conservation biologist»

In the face of this and other evidence, a growing group of conservation biologists say: try everything, at the same time.

It is used by conservation biologists for the preservation of fauna and flora in man - made environments.

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.

A new optimization technique could help conservation biologists choose the most cost - effective ways of connecting isolated populations of rare, threatened and endangered species living in protected areas.

«We do not find this report and its implications scientifically convincing,» four noted conservation biologists said in a statement.

Working with resource managers allows conservation biologists to nurture the natural environment.

That's welcome news to conservation biologists making the case to protect them.

While conservation biologists prefer to help a species survive in its natural environment, extreme cases like that of the chicken frog call for extreme rescue measures.

The evidence of the strong impact of cats on wildlife has focused the attention of conservation biologists towards possible methods of reducing that pressure.

And although species have throughout geological time responded to climate fluctuations, one of the primary concerns of conservation biologists is the current rapid rates of human - caused climate change.

The optimization program uses data on «resistance to movement» for each species, a measure determined by conservation biologists.

The idea still has some hurdles to overcome, not least the inherent horror of many conservation biologists at tampering with nature, no matter how human - dominated it is.

You can think of them as «bright spots»: They demonstrate that there are conditions under which ecosystems can persist even with major climate disturbances,» said Jennifer O'Leary, a marine conservation biologist with California Polytechnic State University and leader of the study.

Ctenomys erikacuellarae was named in honor of Erika Cuellar, a Rolex award - winning conservation biologist from Bolivia who participated in field expeditions as a student in the 1990s.

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.»

When Soulé laid out his manifesto for conservation biologists in the 1980s, he portrayed humanity as the wrecking ball laying waste to earth — and what was left of wild nature.

«The price is just like drugs,» says Lorenzo Rojas - Bracho, a marine conservation biologist at the National Institute of Ecology and Climate Change in Ensenada, Mexico, and chair of the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita (CIRVA).

The unassuming turtle is usually not on the mind of most people, but they are a top priority for many conservation biologists.

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.

Still others, such as conservation biologist Michael Soulé, believe that top - down versus bottom - up, like all dualisms, is false, because the natural world is complex and bottom - up forces (nutrient flow) interact with top - down forces (the effects of predation).

But now conservation biologists have borrowed a trick from public health research to get closer to the truth without having to ask such touchy questions — which could help protect wildlife.

Professor Callum Roberts is a marine conservation biologist in the Environment Department.

«Her dataset is one of a kind,» says Colorado State University conservation biologist George Wittemyer, chairman of the scientific board for the Kenya - based Save the Elephants, a nongovernmental organization.

The enormous new saiga die - off is particularly devastating to conservation biologists because efforts to cut poaching (for meat and «medicinal» horns) were gaining steam in recent years.

A costume helps conservation biologist Joel Bergen study how polar bears might affect musk oxen in the Arctic.

Conservation biologist Peter Cotgreave, director of the pressure group Save British Science, welcomes a promise in the spending plan to tinker with the «dual support» system for funding U.K. research.

Other conservation biologists argue that it already is.

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.

For conservation biologists like Josh Drew, whose work focuses on coral reefs near Fiji, that loss of recovery time amounts to a «death warrant for coral reefs as we know them.»

Emma Pelton, endangered species conservation biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and co-author of the study, said the research will help conservationists better understand the extinction risk of western monarchs.

Tracing the origin of seized ivory is «a really critical piece of the puzzle,» says conservation biologist George Wittemyer of Colorado State University, Fort Collins, who was not involved in the study.

This research «adds to the evidence that studying long - established populations may not be a good predictor» of how a species responds to climate change, comments conservation biologist Chris Thomas of the University of Leeds, U.K. Taking into account those individuals at the leading edge of an expanding range may give a better overall view of how climate is affecting the species.

«Over the past century, the typical approach to conservation was to try to preserve historical ecological communities, but it's challenging to do that when conditions have changed so much,» says Steve Beissinger, a UC Berkeley conservation biologist who helped organize a conference last year on science in the national parks.

Through mathematical modeling, French conservation biologists showed in 2006 in PLoS Biology how people's relentless drive to collect rare animals can push species to extinction.

«The reduction of whale carcasses during the age of commercial whaling may have caused some of the earliest human - caused extinctions in the ocean,» writes the study's first author, conservation biologist Joe Roman of the University of Vermont in Burlington, in an e-mail.

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

Conservation biologist Dr John Woinarski says we've overlooked the feral cat until very recently because we're still struggling to understand the Australian landscape, especially in the tropical north.

In testimony before the town planning board on Friday, Feb. 29, Dr. Michael Klemens, Scenic Hudson's director of conservation science and a renowned conservation biologist, stated that while the proposal by the Durst Organization and Landmark Land Company for the 951 - unit development is touted as being environmentally sound, it actually is «ecologically damaging» and reflects a lack of pre-planning to protect the site's important natural resources.

HUDSON VALLEY — Amid dwindling open space and a sharp rise in large - scale residential projects being proposed along the Hudson River, Dr. Michael W. Klemens, a widely respected conservation biologist noted for bridging the gap between nature and community planning, has joined Scenic Hudson.

June 9, 2:00 a.m. Updated I've written a lot about conservation biologists using automatically activated cameras, or camera traps, to study elusive wildlife.

Most conservation biologists and locals assumed Middleton's research would provide the evidence state and federal agencies needed to support controlling the problematic wolf populations in Wyoming.

Whenever I'm not stuck in Missouri at my job as a wildlife conservation biologist with the Missouri department of conservation.

Most prominent among the renegade land - trust leaders: Robert Keller, a brash conservation biologist in Georgia who has built an empire through syndicated easements.

They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

Find out what happened when our resident conservation biologist Deanna Newsom forgot a crucial element needed to use her water monitoring equipment.

A new genetic analysis has officially established what many entomologists and conservation biologists hoped was true: The Lord Howe stick insect (Dryococelus australis) lives.

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.

The study is important, says Phaedra Doukakis, a caviar conservation biologist at Stony Brook University, New York, as ways to distinguish wild and aquacultured caviar are needed.