Sentences with phrase «identify wildlife populations»

Dr Razgour said: «The framework we have developed can be used to identify the wildlife populations that are most under threat, and therefore help decide how to focus conservation efforts to help the species survive under future climate change.

The framework developed by Dr Razgour and her colleagues at partner institutions uses three measures to identify wildlife populations at risk from climate change.

Not exact matches

«Every animal we treat allows us to monitor the health of the species and most importantly, identify baseline indicators that can be used to better understand the wildlife population and environmental impacts,» said Tim Binder, executive vice president of animal care at Shedd Aquarium.

This sensitivity is especially important for a variety of wildlife forensic applications: identifying («matching») individuals, assigning paternity, and determining whether an animal belongs to a protected population.

Local involvement in, and support for, wildlife research is particularly important in the event that isolated or threatened populations are identified, as resulting management decisions could directly impact their lives.

Dr Nathalie Pettorelli, co-author of the comment and researcher at ZSL, said: «With global wildlife populations halved in just 40 years, there is a real urgency to identify variables that both capture key aspects of biodiversity change and can be monitored consistently and globally.

«But by mapping these adaptive hotspots, we identify places where people could help foster evolutionary rescue in the short term by working to maintain large and connected wildlife populations.»

To achieve better conservation policies and practices for our surviving mammals, science must first provide a better platform for decision - making in identifying changes in wildlife populations and ecosystems.

Alley Cat Allies wants the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to first conduct a study identifying other causes of the state's diminishing wildlife populations.

(wildlife, fish population, forests, soils, fresh water, natural ecosystems, unfragmented nature) Humanity has to find some way to identify their planetary budget, with respect to everything to keeps the planet (biosphere) working like it has done when it still supported us.

Identify how these factors will influence habitat suitability and distribution and the sustainability of fish and wildlife populations.

Requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish the National Climate Change Wildlife Science Center within USGS to: (1) assess current physical and biological knowledge and prioritize scientific gaps in such knowledge to forecast the ecological impacts of climate change on fish and wildlife at the ecosystem, habitat, community, population, and species levels; (2) develop and improve tools to identify, evaluate, and link scientific approaches and models for forecasting impacts of climate change; (3) develop and evaluate tools to adaptively manage and monitor climate change impacts; and (4) develop capacities for sharing such data.