Sentences with phrase «for wild populations»

Fraser, himself an avid fisherman, says these results provide hope for wild populations that were initially negatively affected by human - induced hybridization.

However, the heavy metal of which the highest concentration was found in the birds was lead: in 42.22 μg / dl (micrograms per decilitre) for wild populations, a figure significantly higher than the concentration of the metal in the individuals rescued.

If there was a service that would come catch them and take them to be fixed, I'd even pay a small courtesy fee, but not even mandatory spay / neuter is going to do much for the wild population that's already a problem.

Lowest Genetic Diversity of Any Tiger Population By sampling DNA from the cat's droppings, the team determined that the genetic diversity among Amur Tigers is the lowest ever recorded for a wild population of tigers.

Not exact matches

AquaCo Farms has a grow - out facility designed to be one of the largest, most sought after and credible fish source for Pompano, with zero impact on the wild population.

Beginning the hunt in earnest in Tucson, we went to visit the Arizona - Sonora Desert Museum in order to familiarize ourselves with the environment and particular «habits» of the chiltepín (for example, its predilection towards association with hackberry and mesquite bushes) and to sample from the chiltepín population in the Wild Chile Botanical Area, located in Tumacacori Mountaints, right off of I - 17.

There is a great demand for these peppers, a demand that can exact its toll on the wild populations.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

The Nature Museum is raising juvenile snakes for eventual release into the wild, and studying the best techniques to help the snake population recover.

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has welcomed Defra's decision to allow landowners to decide the priorities for the management of wild boar populations.

«An unchecked wild turkey population, while a novelty when it started, does negatively affect the quality of life for residents of these affected areas.

After getting pushback from lawmakers and thousands of residents, state environmental officials are considering major changes to a management plan that called for the eradication of New York's wild mute swan population by 2025.

The Bronx Zoo is dedicating this year's Run for the Wild fundraiser to save an endangered penguin population native to South America.

Researchers at the University of York mapped population data for 62 wild bee species sprinkled across the United Kingdom along with neonicotinoid treatment in local oilseed rape (Brassica napus) fields over 18 years.

That goes for both wild bees that forage on oilseed rape, and those that don't — though populations of known foragers were three times as likely to disappear.

In the next stage of the project we planned to broaden our interests and include markers that were able to distinguish whether a live animal had been taken from the wild or from a captive - bred population, so we were also looking for population, family, and paternity type markers as well.

But if you look at distemper — canine distemper and feline distemper had been decimating lion populations for years and years and years, and it's from domestic animals infecting wild populations.

Indeed, one influential proponent of the policy, Soviet - trained missile scientist Song Jian, applied theoretical methods borrowed from European mathematicians to generate wild population growth projections for China that helped sway leaders to adopt the birth limit.

«On the basis of morphological and metrical analysis of the faunal remains from Natufian and Pre-Pottery Neolithic A hunter - gatherer deposits, we can document that wild sheep would have inhabited the local environment year - round and formed an important resource for the human population to target for food.

While it's plausible that some of these individuals could be escapees from captive flocks, there is also strong evidence for dispersal from wild populations in Mexico and the Caribbean.

Indeed, if lions» wild prey is edged out by the grazing livestock of a swelling African population, they will have no choice but to develop a taste for beef.

In the field results of a study by Brianna Lam, a graduate student in the J.M.U. Department of Biology, published in the journal Biological Conservation in 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividum.

Still, devil populations in captivity for many generations may lose their wild behaviors.

Peter Lindberg of the Swedish Society for Nature Conservation in Stockholm and his colleagues studied three populations of peregrine falcons, two in the wild and one in captivity, between 1987 and 1999.

+ / - 62 %: rural population directly dependent on wild nature and its services for survival (the most of any continent)

In their paper, they highlighted the need for more monitoring and enforcement, as well as research to better understand the impact of trade on wild plant populations and the actors involved in illegal trade.

In 2016, for example, researchers reported that they had created a CRISPR / Cas9 gene drive that forces a fertility - reducing gene modification into female Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes — which could quickly reduce local Anopheles populations if unleashed in the wild.

These domestic traits are good for producing fish for the table, but not for the stability of wild populations.

That finding is profoundly disturbing for wild tigers, given that in most sites where wild tigers persist they are limited to populations of less than 25 breeding adults.1

Lips and her colleagues hope to establish a surveillance network to monitor wild salamander and newt populations for signs of the fungus.

The Taimyr reindeer herd in the northernmost region of Russia is the largest wild reindeer herd in the world and a key of source of food for the indigenous population of the Taimyr Peninsula.

Some 70 % of the wild populations examined by the study, including the relatives of banana, cassava, wheat, and sorghum, are considered high priority for collection; 300 could not be located in any gene bank.

Although some biologists have argued for the power of inbreeding, a persuasive argument of late, he says, has been that climatic events and random fluctuations in population size are far more important in the wild.

«Brownsea's wild red squirrel population has been living with leprosy for at least four decades,» says Angela Cott, National Trust general manager for Brownsea Island.

As colony collapse disorder and other maladies continue to devastate honeybee populations, researchers are turning their attention to alternative pollinators — the thousands of native bee species throughout the country — and are looking for ways to make croplands more attractive to these wild bees.

A new study led by the Centre for GeoGenetics at the University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with scientists from 11 international universities, reports that a significant part of the genetic variation in modern domesticated horses could be attributed to interbreeding with the descendants of a now extinct population of wild horses.

All were captured and a fresh population was bred in captivity for a few years before being reintroduced to the wild in 1991.

«If we are to conserve remaining wild populations of elephants, we must close all markets because, under current levels of corruption, they can not be controlled in a way that does not provide opportunities for illegal ivory being laundered into legal markets,» said the paper's author, Elizabeth Bennett, WCS Vice President for Species Conservation.

This means the Nottingham group can transfer these tiny bits of genetic information from the wild relatives into wheat on a large scale creating a step change in the search for new varieties of wheat that will cope with disease and climate change and help feed a growing population.

Dropping populations of wild bees in agricultural areas could affect crop pollination and result in higher costs for farmers, researchers report December 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Michaela Hau, an evolutionary physiologist at the Max Planck Institute for Ornithology in Germany, says that the new study is «immensely valuable» because it was carried out with a large number of baboons who lived in the wild rather than a captive population, which might be suffering from different kinds of stresses due to captivity, social isolation, or variable food quality.

That means public health officials may have to start looking for infections and deaths in local wild animal and livestock populations to keep the virus in check, he says.

Teleki calculates that for every infant that survives a year at the final overseas destination, 10 chimpanzees die in transit or on arrival, or are killed in the wild by poachers — small wonder that conservationists are alarmed at the impact continued commercial exploitation will have on wild populations whose habitats are being progressively destroyed.

Unlike ferrets and condors, whose entire populations were gathered up for breeding, Taylor is adamant that vaquitas will never face complete removal from the wild.

«And the people who make those cowboy boots must realise how important the wild populations are for their industry.»

Back then, the West was still wild: The population of Taft, Montana, one of the three towns threatened by the Big Burn, consisted mostly of gamblers and prostitutes — «five for every man,» as one official noted at the time.

«These chemicals do have serious implications for wild bee populations in agricultural landscapes but some, notably from the agrochemical industry, still promote their use,» Dr Whitehorn warns.

In the meantime, Halvorsen hopes that the new rules, involving stricter size limits for which wrasse can be caught, will be accepted, leaving more fertile fish in the sea to replenish wild populations.

The major hurdles flagged by WMI are the need for multiple wild populations, hybridization with coyotes, the integrity of the wolf genome, and land ownership patterns in wolf habitat.

In the case of the Sumatran rhino, however, some conservationists worry that without a long - term strategy for reversing the environmental pressures that are killing them off, captive breeding alone can never restore the wild population.