Sentences with phrase «conservation biologists at»

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.

«If you come at dawn and dusk, it's magical,» says E.J. Milner - Gulland, a conservation biologist at the...

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.

That pattern makes sense to David Inouye, a 56 - year - old ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The issue took center stage this week here at the International Congress for Conservation Biology when Neil Burgess, a conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen who has worked with the WWF in Tanzania, projected a cartoon that conservationists there used depicting a montane landscape with and without PES.

«These guys work their asses off to protect these wolves,» says Claudio Sillero, a conservation biologist at the University of Oxford who heads up the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme, of which the field monitoring team is an integral part.

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.

Even so, Samuel Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, says that policy - makers should err on the side of caution.

«Losing all of these species is not absolutely inevitable,» says lead author Chris Thomas, a conservation biologist at the University of Leeds, U.K..

Dee Boersma, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, says flipper bands likely do have some harmful effect, but the severity of the effect depends on the species of penguin being studied and the type of band used.

That's because poachers are decimating the forest elephants, says Samuel Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle.

That folded posture «creates a buoy» that stabilizes the snake so it can nab prey in choppy water, says study coauthor Brooke Bessesen, a conservation biologist at Osa Conservation, a biodiversity - focused nonprofit in Washington, D.C..

«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).

«That's like gold cocaine,» says Samuel Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.

«These are two of the most fragmented tropical biodiversity hotspots, so they provide vital examples of what can be achieved to prevent extinctions globally,» said lead author William Newmark, research curator and conservation biologist at the Natural History Museum of Utah.

The data suggest more genetic distinctiveness between populations across the continent than the previous study, says Samuel Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Recently, some Iowa counties» departments of transportation are actively returning roadsides to the classic prairie vegetation — more to reduce maintenance costs than to benefit wildlife, says Leslie Ries, a conservation biologist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff.

«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).

But David Garshelis, a conservation biologist at the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources in Grand Rapids and co-chair of IUCN's Bear Specialist Group, disagrees.

«We did not anticipate going out on that survey and not seeing a single baiji, and not hearing a single whistle,» says Barbara Taylor, a conservation biologist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, and a member of CIRVA.

«Slowing the rate of biodiversity loss wasn't a good target,» says Benjamin Skolnik, a conservation biologist at the American Bird Conservancy in Washington, D.C. «It wasn't rigorous enough.»

«That's allowed them to develop a picture of the distribution of tigers in a way that we haven't had before,» says John Seidensticker, a tiger conservation biologist at the Smithsonian National Zoological Park in Washington, D.C.

«Based on this study, we know that native wildlife can provide you with a pretty significant benefit,» says Daniel Karp, a conservation biologist at Stanford University in California, who led the study.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

«If you come at dawn and dusk, it's magical,» says E.J. Milner - Gulland, a conservation biologist at the University of Oxford who has studied saigas for 27 years.

That means the animals move through the corridors and breed with other populations, says study author Stephen Mech, now a conservation biologist at the University of Memphis in Tennessee.

Dan Blumstein, a behavioral and conservation biologist at U.C.L.A. «Now remember some of these might be local parks.

Satterfield's study «quantifies something we knew was a risk,» says Karen Oberhauser, a conservation biologist at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities.

«It's the first really convincing evidence to come in the 120 years since people started to debate this issue,» says Tim Caro, a behavioral ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of California, Davis, who was not involved in the study.

It is a native plant making a comeback, not an invasive on the rampage, says study co-author Alan Tye, a conservation biologist at the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program, based in Samoa.

Carsten Nowak, a conservation biologist at the Senckenberg Research Institutes and Natural History Museum in Gelnhausen, Germany, and his colleagues have made a first attempt to understand how global warming might affect this form of diversity.

«It's kind of amazing,» says Devra Kleiman, a former zoo researcher and now a conservation biologist at Conservation International in Washington, D.C.. Most zoos are trying to emphasize research and conservation, she says, but «the Smithsonian National Zoo, which was a model for that 25 years ago, [is] eliminating those functions.»

John Reynolds, a conservation biologist at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver, reports that the pink salmon have come back with a vengeance this year, on the heels of record lows in 2007 and 2008: «The grizzlies, of course, can eat the pinks, so it's not all doom and gloom right now.»

Mathilde Tissier, a conservation biologist at the University of Strasbourg, remembers seeing the newly born pups alone, spread around in the cages, while their mothers ran about.

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.

«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.

«We're definitely seeing species going extinct because of climate change,» says Camille Parmesan, a conservation biologist at University of Texas.

«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 the park staff.

July 16, 2008 - When a developer announced plans to build nearly 1,000 homes across 2,200 acres of open space in a rural Hudson Valley town, I asked the conservation biologist at Scenic Hudson, the group I head, to conduct an ecological study.

«If... we're at fault for extinction, we're also on the hook for coming up with a way to try to undo that extinction,» says Douglas McCauley, an ecologist and conservation biologist at UC Santa Barbara, who's also been critical of de-extinction projects.

Not exact matches

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.

El Porvenir plans on using the award funds for a biologist - led conservation course at the local school, along with an art contest for students with the theme «Forest Conservaconservation course at the local school, along with an art contest for students with the theme «Forest ConservationConservation.»

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

The good news, at least for now: No bat deaths have been attributed to the disease in Missouri, says bat biologist Tony Elliott with the state's Department of Conservation.

Schaller calls the work of conservation «a gigantic, continuous headache,» explaining that «instead of just being a biologist — something for which I was trained — I must also be a fund - raiser, diplomat, politician, sociologist, anthropologist, everything at once.»

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

And Joan Roughgarden, a marine ecologist at Stanford University, says such maps will help marine conservation biologists catch up to their land - based colleagues.

In addition to Barrows, the authors are Michelle Murphy - Mariscal, lead biologist for the Western Riverside Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, and Rebecca Hernandez, an assistant professor at UC Davis who was previous a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.

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.