The results could have important
conservation implications for the grey wolf, which is a keystone species — meaning it is vital to the natural balance of the habitat it occupies.
So apart
from conservation implications, the new findings might be one step toward developing better industrial filters, said Adam Summers, a UW professor of biology, co-author on the paper and leader of a lab that looks for opportunities to copy or imitate nature, a field called biomimicry.
«Resequencing of individual Amborella plants across the species» range reveals geographic structure
with conservation implications plus evidence of a recent, major genetic bottleneck,» noted Pam Soltis of the University of Florida.
The discovery has
significant conservation implications, the researchers say, noting that the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission Giraffe and Okapi Specialist Group recently submitted an updated proposed assessment of the giraffe on the IUCN Red List taking into consideration their rapid decline over the last 30 years.
The researchers published the findings, «Live capture and ownership of lemurs in Madagascar: extent and
conservation implications,» online Jan. 5, in the international conservation journal, Oryx.
«Given the rapid depletion of both forest and savanna elephant numbers in the past century and the ongoing destruction of their habitats,
the conservation implications of recognition and species - level management of these distinct taxa are considerable,» the authors write
When Hannah and his team looked at
the conservation implications of the wine industry's geographic overhaul, they were «stunned,» he says, by the magnitude of changes that could come over the next few decades.
«Pandas hear more than we do: Sensitivity beyond human range may have
conservation implications.»
Patterns in the modern decline of Western Australia's vertebrate fauna: causes and conservation implications