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.»
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.
Not exact matches
«That's
like gold cocaine,» says Samuel Wasser, a
conservation biologist at the University of Washington in Seattle.
«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).
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).
«Tropical species in Brazil or Kenya will indeed be much more sensitive to small temperature shifts than their temperate counterparts in places
like England and Saskatchewan,» adds
biologist Robert Pringle of Stanford University's Center for
Conservation Biology.
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.
«While this may sound
like a lot of butterflies,» said Emma Pelton,
conservation biologist for the Xerces Society, «in the 1980s, they numbered in the millions.
One day when I worked in Hustai National Park, my supervisor and vice president of the Mongolian Association for
Conservation of Nature, Mr J. Tserendeleg, asked me, «We are close to start snow leopard research project, would you
like to work in that project as a field
biologist?»
Some well - meaning people,
like the New York Times» first - rate climate reporter Andy Revkin and the great
conservation biologist, E. O. Wilson, have gotten taken in by Newt's new clothes rhetoric.