Sentences with phrase «in 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.

They say problems like habitat loss and pollution are primarily to blame for the decline in wildlife populations.

Although rabies is not common in our companion animals it still exists in the wildlife population.

It has also been impacted by an influx of marine debris, causing changes in its wildlife populations.

Control of canine distemper outbreaks includes the removal of carcasses of animals which have died from the disease, vaccination of susceptible domestic species to decrease the number of susceptible hosts, and a reduction in wildlife populations which also reduces the number of potential hosts.

[109] If by rabies control, animal protectionists mean eliminate or drastically reduce the incidence of rabies in wildlife populations, then they are correct.

Even when vaccines are available, it is impractical to vaccinate every individual in a wildlife population.

Her research areas include the ecology of hantaviruses in rodents and other viral zoonoses in wildlife populations.

Earlier studies in the 4,200 km2 Chernobyl Exclusion Zone showed major radiation effects and pronounced reductions in wildlife populations.

IT MIGHT be gruesome, but counting road kill could be a quick and effective way to spot local changes in wildlife populations.

There are no studies that show conclusively that pet cats are responsible for declines in wildlife populations.

Radical changes in ecology can lead to unexpected viral proliferation and infection via a number of routes — greater human exposure, changes in wildlife populations, changes in environmental factors that encourage viral proliferation.

Just the introduction of the Chestnut blight destroyed the ecosystem of the eastern United States in the early 1900s, causing catastrophic reductions in wildlife populations and the extinction of several species totally dependent on the American Chestnut, and incidently, increased the misery associated with the Great Depression due to the loss of a key agricultural crop.