Sentences with phrase «for animal diversity»
He added, «Conserving the natural habitat for animal diversity is important.
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The country also is estimated to have the highest sheer number and diversity of plants and animals for its size, meaning it's the most dense country for biodiversity in the world.
«In its 4.6 billion years circling the sun, the Earth has harbored an increasing diversity of life forms: for the last 3.6 billion years, simple cells (prokaryotes); for the last 3.4 billion years, cyanobacteria performing ph - otosynthesis; for the last 2 billion years, complex cells (eukaryotes); for the last 1 billion years, multicellular life; for the last 600 million years, simple animals; for the last 550 million years, bilaterians, animals with a front and a back; for the last 500 million years, fish and proto - amphibians; for the last 475 million years, land plants; for the last 400 million years, insects and seeds; for the last 360 million years, amphibians; for the last 300 million years, reptiles; for the last 200 million years, mammals; for the last 150 million years, birds; for the last 130 million years, flowers; for the last 60 million years, the primates, for the last 20 million years, the family H - ominidae (great apes); for the last 2.5 million years, the genus H - omo (human predecessors); for the last 200,000 years, anatomically modern humans.»
The most passionate argument in the book, in a chapter on declining Jewish population, pleads that, after the Holocaust, Jews are an endangered species, deserving protection and enhancement for the sake of diversity, like the bald eagle: «You have friends who work to rescue endangered animal and plant species, so you know why this matters.»
The Biological Diversity Center is suing the Trump administration for repealing protections for wolves, bears and other predatory animals that live on Alaska's national preserves.
We would also look to offer more small scale, accession grants for farmers to invest in animal welfare, reducing carbon emissions, and more efficient IT so they can increase diversity and profitability.»
Once born, a zoo animal takes resources to maintain, and maintaining genetic diversity is an important and legitimate consideration for a breeding program.
Agencies that maintain databases of animal and plant diversity will get a one - time, $ 40 million grant for upgrading laboratories.
«The herbivores created space for other plants and animals to move in and we saw much more diversity and variety in these ecosystems,» said Rebecca Kordas, the lead author of the study who completed this research as a PhD student in zoology at UBC.
Only six mice for each generation were examined, and only three animals received the final fecal transplant to restore their gut diversity.
For millennia, humans have marveled at the seemingly boundless variety and diversity of animals inhabiting the Earth.
«Both malaria and Helicosporidium started out as alga and ended up as intracellular parasites preying on animals, but they have done it in very different ways,» says Keeling, director of the Centre for Microbial Diversity and Evolution at UBC and a Senior Fellow of Canadian Institute for Advanced Research.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), which is responsible for establishing habitats for endangered animals, had promised to announce a designated area for jaguars (Panthera onca) by January 2011 — after being sued by the nonprofit groups Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) and Defenders of Wildlife.
A recent study by scientists at the University of Adelaide and the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) looked at which American animals made the ESA list, and which didn't.
Dr. Frankel is currently directing or co-directing projects related to the ethical and policy implications of human germ - line interventions, the responsible use of animals in biomedical and behavioral research, improving patient safety and reducing errors in health care, the ethical dimensions of the Human Genome Diversity Project, the uses of anonymity on the Internet, and intellectual property and ethical standards for electronic publishing in science.
Previous work in Atlantic salmon has shown that the diversity of genes coding for the MHC binding site is lower in animals that typically live in lower temperature conditions.
Therefore, climate change may have a more negative effect on the biological diversity of animals than previously assumed,» says Schleuning, and he adds, «A consideration of biotic interactions between animals and plants is therefore important for predicting the impacts of climate change on biodiversity.»
«Knowing the diversity of plants in Cretaceous environments provides a better understanding of potential food sources for animals such as plant - eating dinosaurs,» says Judy Skog, program director for paleontology in NSF's Division of Earth Sciences.
«Once the diversity of plants decreases, as this paper indicates is true for the relatives of ginkgo, animal life also declines.»
For decades biologists have marveled at the diversity of penises across the animal kingdom.
Determining how all of those types of animals coexist is critical for understanding functional diversity, niche partitioning and interspecific interactions.»
But that would hardly be good for the planet, Kareiva notes, because natural forests deliver other benefits, such as fostering a diversity of animals, fungi, insects, microbes and plants.
The results are surprising, for even in the presence of many different herbivorous animals, plants produced the same amount of biomass as in simulations with a low diversity of herbivore species.
In fact, the diversity of Architeuthis is lower than that for any other marine animal, except one — the basking shark Cetorhinus maximus, whose current population is thought to have rebounded from a small number of individuals.
The Commission wants environment ministers to give it money to make an inventory of collections of plant varieties and animal breeds in the Community, and for projects to catalogue and conserve diversity in each member state.
The Center for Biological Diversity, Earthjustice, and other groups say they are particularly alarmed by the plan's goal of establishing a population of just 300 to 325 animals, and the provision that blocks the wolves from living north of U.S. Interstate 40.
«One of the biggest challenges facing conservation today is our inability to step back and admit that there are animals that would take a little bit less work and a little bit less money but have the potential to survive for their genetic diversity into the future,» says John Fraser, chief executive of the New Knowledge Organization in New York city, a think tank and advocate of a triage response to species conservation.
In addition to preserving the genetic diversity of endangered species, the centre will act as a resource for researchers who are developing IVF and other breeding technologies to assist endangered animals.
Crossing the interstate, especially for the animals of breeding age, is important for this population's declining genetic diversity — and long - term health and survival.
For each specimen, they sequenced 685 bases from the fastest - mutating part of the animal's mitochondrial genome and then assessed the genetic diversity of ancient herds.
Size differences account for a great deal of the diversity found in the animal kingdom, but we still have much to learn about how sizes are programmed.
Committee Work and Service: Professional: Faculty member of the CSHL Infrastructure and Training to Bring Next - generation Sequence (NGS) Analysis Into Undergraduate Education; Diversity committees for the Society for the Study of Reproduction (SSR) and American Society of Andrology; Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society (vice-president and co-chair student research funding with Mary Shaw), Reviewer for a variety of scientific journals (Lab Animal, Andrology, Asian J Andrology, Reproduction, Cell and Tissue Research).
Development of a high - throughput sequence - independent amplification strategy for dsRNA viruses will increase our ability to sequence more diverse rotavirus strains, including clinical isolates from both humans and animals, regardless of their nucleotide sequence diversity.
On July 12, 2011, the Center for Biological Diversity struck a historic legal settlement with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requiring the agency to make initial or final decisions on whether to add hundreds of imperiled plants and animals to the endangered species list by 2018.
While some scientists believe there was indeed an explosion of diversity (the so - called punctuated equilibrium theory elaborated by Nils Eldredge the late Stephen J. Gould - Models In Paleobiology, 1972), others believe that such rapid acceleration of evolution is not possible; they posit that there was an extended period of evolutionary progression of all the animal groups, the evidence for which is lost in the all but nonexistent precambrian fossil record.
-- It is obvious that humans have had a strong affection for biological diversity in their domestic animals, says Leif Andersson.
Changing biological and environmental factors during this period of Earth history set the stage for the radiation of animals and the emergence of Phanerozoic ecosystems and diversity.
New ways for understanding the link between the uplift of the Tibetan Plateau and species diversity (08/05/2014) Researchers the Biodiversity and Climate Research Centre (BiK - F), the Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung and the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), from the University of Leipzig and the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology has summarized the current state of knowledge on the diversification of Tibetan plants and animals....
Building a wiki web site to leverage the learning at a local animal park, developing an advertising campaign for a non-profit that recycles bicycles, producing award winning public service announcements about diversity and bullying, including a classmate with leukemia utilizing video - conferencing and then producing an award winning video teaching others how to follow their lead, are just some examples.
In a collection for all ages, Lewis pairs poems by classic and modern poets with breathtaking photos from the National Geographic archives that capture the amazing diversity of the animal world.
Ongoing Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion This award for Old Dominion is the first of what will become an annual honor PAH will give to customers across each of its Dairy, Beef, Pork, Equine, Small Animal and Channel Management business groups.
Students were chosen based on several criteria, including academic excellence, professional interests (small animal, large, mixed, research, academia, etc.), diversity, leadership and potential for contribution to the veterinary profession.
Summary There is no doubt that the Florida Keys are immensely valuable for their diversity of animal and plant life, some of which can be found nowhere else in the world.
Pedersen and colleagues from the Center for Companion Animal Health at UC Davis examined the DNA of 102 registered English Bulldogs and found an alarmingly low level of diversity.
«Rising debt, insufficient diversity and fewer practicing or skilled food animal veterinarians in rural America are serious challenges to the veterinary profession,» said Michael McFarland, DVM, Group Director, Veterinary Medical Services & Corporate Citizenship, for Pfizer Animal Hanimal veterinarians in rural America are serious challenges to the veterinary profession,» said Michael McFarland, DVM, Group Director, Veterinary Medical Services & Corporate Citizenship, for Pfizer Animal HAnimal Health.
Recipients were selected based on several criteria, including academic excellence, leadership, diversity and potential for contributing to food - animal or food - safety veterinary medicine.
Thus, studies showing the diversity of animal species that are killed by cats as well the magnitude of their hunting pressure are important; they both inform public opinion about the problem and can help raise financial support for mitigation.
According to Dean Reed, «As we look more closely at diversity and inclusion within the veterinary industry, Mr. Lewis provides a practical «call to action» for other entities across the veterinary / animal health industry to consider adopting as they face similar challenges.»
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The hybrid vigour generated by this initial outcross would deteriorate beyond the first (F1) cross, and it would be critical that subsequent selection of animals for the «designer dog» phenotype was carefully monitored to maximise genetic diversity and avoid known inherited conditions.