Sentences with phrase «conservation biologist from»

With help from a conservation biologist from the region's capital, the team began by randomly selecting 10 forest plots of 1,000 square feet each, and counting all the trees within them.

«As protected conservation areas become smaller, lions are increasingly coming into contact with human populations, which are expanding to the boundaries of these protected areas,» says Neil Jordan, a conservation biologist from University of New South Wales, in a news release.

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.

To learn more, I met up with Mark Vellend, a young conservation biologist from the University of British Columbia.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

For the last 12 years the lab of ornithology had been involved in research and conservation and training, building of capacity with biologists and scientists from Cuba.

Nonetheless, some prominent biologists question whether «de-extincting» species is a smart conservation strategy — or if it merely distracts from protecting the thousands of species at risk today.

Across the Appalachian divide from Fould's Creek, biologist Bill McShea has spent the past 14 years studying the forest at the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia.

«We found that prized sportfish, such as Brook trout and the smaller fish that trout eat, are disappearing from lakes where species of Bass have expanded their habitats,» said Karen Alofs, a postdoctoral researcher working with ecologist and conservation biologist Donald Jackson in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at U of T, describing a study published this week in Proceeding of the Royal Society B.

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.

«It's a bold thing to do and it's a good thing to try,» says conservation biologist Hugh Possingham from the University of Queensland, St. Lucia, in Brisbane, Australia, who is not involved in the trial.

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.

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.

The conservation effort is a marked departure from the paradigm that has driven preservation to date in Canada's southern half — a philosophy that caribou biologist Justina Ray, head of the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, describes as «develop what we want and try to salvage the best of what's conservation effort is a marked departure from the paradigm that has driven preservation to date in Canada's southern half — a philosophy that caribou biologist Justina Ray, head of the Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, describes as «develop what we want and try to salvage the best of what's Conservation Society Canada, describes as «develop what we want and try to salvage the best of what's left.»

«The severely threatened European Bison would stand a much better chance if they — as they did in the past - could inhabit open landscapes, which would offer a much wider food spectrum,» muses the biologist from Tübingen, and he summarizes, «The conservation concepts for the European Bison are therefore in need of a fundamental revision.»

The results of our study on the conservation of the number of digits provides an important argument in the current controversy on the descent of birds from dinosaurs between developmental biologists and paleontologists.

Biologists at the Ash Meadows Fish Conservation Facility, less than a mile from Devils Hole, have successfully established a reserve pupfish population that is now reproducing on its own in a 100,000 - gallon refuge tank designed to replicate the species» home in the wild, right down to its shape and temperature.

«I was sitting at the bar in Jakarta waiting to come home, looking through the pictures, and this popped up,» says Andrew Marshall, a conservation biologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, who works with researchers from the park staff and Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand.

Conservation biologists have recently raised the Ne (effective population size) from 50 to 100 unrelated individuals needed to maintain a sustainable breeding population.

In 2005, two conservation biologists proposed a plan to airlift 50 gray whales from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean.

As part of the proceedings, the GGRO — a Parks Conservancy program in cooperation with the National Park Service — will help commemorate the 50th anniversary of a watershed moment in conservation science: the first gathering of biologists convened specifically to stop the disappearance of a species from the planet.

The Amigos conservation team comprises biologists, oceanographers, anthropologists, development workers and volunteers and its projects range from wildlife research to an environmental services payment program for protecting the jungle, water studies and sustainable development.

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.

Click here for contributions from the others, including the long - distance climate campaigner Bill McKibben, the climate scientist Heidi Cullen and two biologists from the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research.

I've written about this in the context of water pollution, as well, including after the conservation biologist M. Sanjayan sent me video of a mass of foam rising from a river in Nairobi: Read more...

Those were the findings of biologists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and Zoological Society of London studying elephant behavior in Tanzania's Tarangire National Park.

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.

I've written about this in the context of water pollution, as well, including after the conservation biologist M. Sanjayan sent me video of a mass of foam rising from a river in Nairobi:

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.