Sentences with phrase «conservation science papers»

She has published over 30 conservation science papers on topics such as climate vulnerability and adaptation, marine protected areas, conservation planning, coral reef resilience, ocean acidification, sea - level rise, blue carbon, customary tenure, and partnerships between religious groups and conservation.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, STRI research associate William Laurance published a paper in Science, stressing the importance of considering wildlife conservation during transportation infrastructure planning, because it is well known in the conservation community that roads «can unleash a Pandora's box of environmental ills, such as land encroachment, wildlife poaching, forest fragmentation, exotic species invasions and illegal mining.»

The paper's authors reviewed recent studies in conservation science, looking at rates of species extinction, distribution and protection to determine where there were crucial gaps in knowledge, where threats to species are expanding and how best to tailor protection efforts to be successful.

«Bees rely on learning to locate flowers, track their profitability and work out how best to efficiently extract nectar and pollen,» said environmental sciences professor Nigel Raine, the Rebanks Family Chair in Pollinator Conservation at U of G and senior author of the paper.

The paper by lead author Dr Nicole Boivin from the University of Oxford and Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, with researchers from the UK, US, and Australia, suggests that archaeological evidence has been missing from current debates about conservation priorities.

The group, which included ecologists, conservation biologists, paleobiologists, geologists, lawyers, policymakers and writers, is publishing its conclusions in a perspective paper appearing in the Feb. 10 issue of the journal Science.

Revision worksheets for the Physics 1 paper in the new Edexcel Combined Science GCSE (9 - 1) Including CP1 Motion CP2 Forces and Motion CP3 Conservation of Energy CP4 Waves CP5 Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum CP6 Radioactivity

S. Fish and Wildlife Service's «killer cat study» was published, the paper actually has very little to do with science or conservation.

As an advocate of trap - neuter - return working for one of that nation's leading animal welfare organizations, Best Friends Animal Society — and somebody quite familiar with the science surrounding TNR and free - roaming cats in general — I feel compelled to respond to R. Scott Nolen's recent article («Cats may be greater threat to wildlife than first thought,» JAVMA News, April 1, 2013) about the paper published earlier this year by the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS).

We are looking for a range of Conservators, Technicians and Conservation Scientists to join our core teams in Conservation Science and Preventive Conservation; Paintings, Frames and Workshop; Paper and Photographs; Sculpture and Installation; and Time - based Media.

Through scenes shot in 29 countries, the programs describe Sanjayan's learning curve as a scientist and conservation campaigner, from years when he pursued traditional strategies for environmental protection, like the establishment of parks (read this 1998 Science paper to get the idea), to conservation efforts that foster sustainable land use from the ground up.

Conservation more effective than biofuels for fighting global warming (8/15/2007) Conserving forests and grasslands may be a more effective land - use strategy for fighting climate change than growing biofuel crops argues a new paper published in the journal Science.

Announcing the publication of a Special Issue of Environmental Science and Policy (Volume 35, January 2014) titled: Climate change and deforestation: The evolution of an intersecting policy domain.The Special Issue contains 13 papers that address potential synergies and policy conflicts between forest conservation and restoration and climate change mitigation.

«The results show that we need to start thinking about conservation not just at the scale of an individual farm but also at the watershed scale,» said Dale Robertson, research hydrologist at the Geological Survey's Wisconsin Water Science Center and co-author of the paper.

The latest PNAS paper on the problems of 4000 mammals by Kevin Crooks et al, from Colorado State University, US, the University of Queensland, Australia, Sapienza Università di Roma in Italy and Conservation Science Partners indicates that anthropogenic influences on habitat exacerbate the risks of extinction on a global basis.