Sentences with phrase «for predator control»

This coincided with an upsurge in the coyote population in the American West and a movement to use guardian dogs for predator control instead of poison and other methods that had not been effective.

Although still uncommon, the Sarplaninac is increasing in popularity for predator control in the United States and Canada.

Federally - funded projects have been established to study the use of livestock guard dogs for predator control and have found the dogs to be successful under certain circumstances.

A variety of dog breeds can work for predator control.

Not exact matches

Animal protectionists cast a great deal of ire on the wildlife damage control programs, especially the work performed by USDA - APHIS - Wildlife Services (hereafter WS) which has historically administered predator control programs in the U.S.. For example, activists reject the idea that coyote control programs are needed to protect flocks from costly predation.

Biological pest control on organic farms, for example, relies on maintaining healthy populations of pest predators and parasitoids.

BASC strongly opposes the Hunting Act, and believes land owners and managers should be able to choose the most effective methods of pest and predator control for their circumstances.

But the British Association for Shooting and Conservation argues that pest and predator control is a necessary and integral part of conservation and wildlife management.

It is the responsibility of all of those involved in pest and predator control to ensure their methods are legal, humane and carried out with sensitivity and respect for other countryside users.

They lacked upper body adaptations for climbing and may have used fires to ward off ground - dwelling nocturnal predators, although the evidence for controlled fire stretches back only 1 million years.

Scientists argue that a cocktail of biological pesticides and synthetic predator cues may become the future strategy for mosquito control.

Variation in insect diet has implications for numerous ecological and evolutionary processes, including effects of environmental disturbance, the stability of networks of interacting species and the top - down effects of predators being controlled by the level of herbivore diet specialization.

William Murdoch's counterargument, termed the plant self - defense hypothesis by conservation biologist John Terborgh, suggests that food (bottom - up control) has the strongest influence, that the world may be green because not all plants are palatable to herbivores, and that predators are unnecessary for ecosystem regulation.

Defined as medium - sized predators, mesopredators are controlled by top predators — often by direct mortality, as we have seen, but also via competition for shared resources.

Birds play an important role in a wide variety of ecosystems as both predator and prey, in controlling insect populations, pollinating and seed dispersal for many plants, and in releasing nutrients on to land and sea in the form of guano.

For each island, the researchers recorded the presence or absence of various native mammals, and of rats, cats, foxes, and wild dogs known as dingoes, which some scientists believe help control invasive predators.

Scientists have previously hypothesized that zebras» stripes evolved for one, or a combination of, four main reasons: confusing predators, protecting against disease - carrying insects, controlling body temperature and social cohesion.

Should you be fortunate to gather a group together, there's a 4v4 Annihilation mode which pits teams against each other to eliminate Titans and earn the most points for when time is up, Predator mode sees you controlling Titans and causing havoc to achieve points, and finally, it's every player for themselves in Expulsion as up to six people compete in the eradication of Titans.

Specification points covered are: Paper 2 Topic 1 (4.5 - homeostasis and response) 4.5.1 - Homeostasis (B5.1 lesson) 4.5.3.2 - Control of blood glucose concentration (B5.1 lesson) 4.5.2.1 - Structure and function (B5.2 lesson) Required practical 7 - plan and carry out an investigation into the effect of a factor on human reaction time (B5.2 lesson) 4.5.3.1 - Human endocrine system (B5.6 lesson) 4.5.3.4 - Hormones in human reproduction (B5.10 lesson) 4.5.3.5 - Contraception (B5.11 lesson) 4.5.3.6 - The use of hormones to treat infertility (HT only)(B5.12 lesson) 4.5.3.7 - Negative feedback (HT only)(B5.13 lesson) Paper 2 topic 2 (4.6 - Inheritance, variation and evolution) 4.6.1.1 - sexual and asexual reproduction (B6.1 lesson) 4.6.1.2 - Meiosis (B6.1 lesson) 4.6.1.4 - DNA and the genome (B6.3 lesson) 4.6.1.6 - Genetic inheritance (B6.5 lesson) 4.6.1.7 - Inherited disorders (B6.6 lesson) 4.6.1.8 - Sex determination (B6.5 lesson) 4.6.2.1 - Variation (B6.9 lesson) 4.6.2.2 - Evolution (B6.10 lesson) 4.6.2.3 - Selective breeding (B6.11 lesson) 4.6.2.4 - Genetic engineering (B6.11 lesson) 4.6.3.4 - Evidence for evolution (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.5 - Fossils (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.6 - Extinction (B6.16 lesson) 4.6.3.7 - Resistant bacteria (B6.17 lesson) 4.6.4.1 - classification of living organisms (B6.18 lesson) Paper 2 topic 3 (4.7 - Ecology 4.7.1.1 - Communities (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.2 - Abiotic factors (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.3 - Biotic factors (B7.1 lesson) 4.7.1.4 — Adaptations (B7.2 lesson) 4.7.2.1 - Levels of organisation (feeding relationships + predator - prey cycles)(B7.3 lesson) 4.7.2.1 - Levels of organisation (required practical 9 - population sizes)(B7.4 lesson) 4.7.2.2 - How materials are cycled (B7.5 lesson) 4.7.3.1 - Biodiversity (B7.7 lesson) 4.7.3.6 - Maintaining Biodiversity (B7.7 lesson) 4.7.3.2 - Waste management (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.3 - Land use (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.4 - Deforestation (B7.9 lesson) 4.7.3.5 - Global warming (B7.9 lesson)

FACT: Trap, Neuter, & Release (TNR) is an even bigger abject failure because these man - made ecological disasters can not be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue the cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today — FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM.

Komondors are well suited for the task of predator control (both two and four legged kind).

On the other hand guard dogs assume a proprietary interest in the animals, living with the herd all the time.For many years predator control has been a major problem for the American livestock industry.

As with all biological controls, the predators need to be reintroduced periodically, because they eat all the prey species and die off for lack of food.

FACT: Trap, Neuter, & Re-Abandon (TNR) is an even bigger abject failure because these man - made ecological disasters can not be trapped faster than they exponentially breed out of control, and they also continue to cruelly annihilate all native wildlife (from the smallest of prey up to the top predators that are starved to death), and the cats continue to spread many deadly diseases that they carry today — FOR WHICH THERE ARE NO VACCINES AGAINST THEM.

This would eliminate subsidized predator control for ranchers, consisting chiefly of killing coyotes, but would not interfere with killing wildlife under contract from other government agencies — for instance, to protect airports, endangered species, and golf greens on public land.

2 as predators coyotes keep rhodent populations under control - in equilibrium if you will.They cull out the weak and sick, hard on individuals but so good for the herd (see esp.

The aiming controls slow down while sighted, which is great for precision but lethal when being charged by a carnivorous predator!

Invisible Predator Online pits two teams against each other, the Joker's and Bane's as they vie for control -LSB-...]

Jump behind the controls of the Predator and scout out the enemy position for your teammates or hulk out with the Panzer and lead the charge against the enemy.

Invisible Predator Online pits two teams against each other, the Joker's and Bane's as they vie for control of Gotham City.

With the nine oil paintings and three works on paper that comprise the exhibition, Miller continues to explore the narrative potential of the animal world by revisiting many of the themes that she has surveyed in her work for the past thirty years, including the relationship between predator and prey, the effect of changing habitats upon both flora and fauna, the folly of our human sense of control over nature, and the passage of time.