Sentences with phrase «conservation ecologist»

One of the report's authors, Nigel Pitman, senior conservation ecologist at theField Museum in Chicago, says: «Since 1900, between 50 and 250 new trees have been discovered in the Amazon every year.

One of the report's authors, Nigel Pitman, senior conservation ecologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, says: «Since 1900, between 50 and 250 new trees have been discovered in the Amazon every year.

Says Duke University conservation ecologist Stuart Pimm: «I think it is at best a colossal waste of money and at worst has potential to do significant harm.»

«This is one of the most incredibly clever bits of practical conservation I've seen in my entire career,» says conservation ecologist Stuart Pimm of Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved in the new study.

Guided by Karen Glennemeier, a Shedd conservation ecologist who specializes in amphibians, Ford volunteers helped clear sugar maple trees that were preventing important other native species from prospering.

In a recent study published in the journal Movement Ecology, conservation ecologists used GPS tags to track 17 of those white storks through their normal migration period to figure out why.

«Folks are going out into nature much less and decreasingly every year,» says conservation ecologist Patricia Zaradic of the Environmental Leadership Program and co-author of the report published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.

By then a quarter of all birds may be as good as gone, says Stanford conservation ecologist Cagan Sekercioglu.

Perhaps the most alarming report came in late 2006, when Boris Worm, a marine conservation ecologist at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, reported in Science that for 29 percent of currently fished species, the catch had dropped to less than 10 percent of the historical maximum.

In some cases, like Hawaii, where it's essentially ground zero for species extinctions now in part because of cats, as conservation ecologists we've got to remove these threats, because these are invasive species.

YD Bar - Ness is an outreach and conservation ecologist based in the far corner of Australasia on the island of Tasmania.

Under the supervision of Stu Weiss, conservation ecologist at Creekside Center for Earth Observation who holds a special permit that allows him to handle butterflies, each mission blue butterfly was captured and placed in a container in a cooler.

Conservation ecologist Stuart Pimm of Duke University thinks that Possingham's models make sense in places like Australia, where there is still a lot of intact biodiversity; he has reservations about its use in places where biodiversity is fast declining.

But as countries seek new energy sources to drive economic growth, a surge in dam construction on the eastern flank of the Andes could further threaten fish migration and sediment flows, Elizabeth Anderson, a conservation ecologist at Florida International University in Miami, and colleagues warn today in Science Advances.

Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke University, emphasizes that the model can not indicate which new species may be threatened with extinction.

Among the first scientists to promote gastronomy as a tool to combat invasion was Joe Roman, a conservation ecologist at the University of Vermont.

«It would be nice to have a mechanistic and quantitative understanding of how bear populations respond to the variation in salmon population,» explains Chris Darimont, chief scientist with the Raincoast Conservation Foundation (RCF) and conservation ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The panda is now better off than it has been in decades, says co-author Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina.

Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke University, points out that recovery programs for critically endangered species such as the condor and whooping crane are valuable testing grounds.

Feathered friends The finding «is definitely good news for Costa Rican farmers», says Matthew Johnson, a conservation ecologist at Humboldt State University in Arcata, California.

But Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, says that Hubbell and He's paper is simply wrong.

I'm currently going for my environmental sciences degree at ucf so I can become a conservation ecologist.

Racing Extinction features interviews with prominent scientists like Dr. Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke University, warning us that half of all species will be extinct within 100 years if humanity does not change its ways.

The overall message is that biodiversity continues to decline, says Stuart Pimm, a conservation ecologist at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who recently published a study in the journal Science on biodiversity and extinction rates.