Sentences with phrase «now conservation biologists»

But now conservation biologists have borrowed a trick from public health research to get closer to the truth without having to ask such touchy questions — which could help protect wildlife.

«As phenology is advancing around the globe, there are concerns that plant - pollinator interactions may be disrupted through phenological mismatches, or mismatches in the timing of when flowers bloom and their pollinators emerge, leading to reduced plant reproduction,» says lead author Zak Gezon, who conducted the research as a doctoral student at Dartmouth and who is now a conservation biologist with Disney's Animal Programs.

That means the animals move through the corridors and breed with other populations, says study author Stephen Mech, now a conservation biologist at the University of Memphis in Tennessee.

«It's kind of amazing,» says Devra Kleiman, a former zoo researcher and now a conservation biologist at Conservation International in Washington, D.C.. Most zoos are trying to emphasize research and conservation, she says, but «the Smithsonian National Zoo, which was a model for that 25 years ago, [is] eliminating those functions.»

Not exact matches

The good news, at least for now: No bat deaths have been attributed to the disease in Missouri, says bat biologist Tony Elliott with the state's Department of Conservation.

Dávalos» team is now working to bring together a larger, interdisciplinary team of colleagues to create an intensive conservation management plan incorporating the expertise of conservation researchers, biologist, ecologists, policy - makers, educators, and land and wildlife management experts to save the last surviving native Caribbean mammals.

Dan Blumstein, a behavioral and conservation biologist at U.C.L.A. «Now remember some of these might be local parks.

Now, as part of a radical approach to animal welfare and conservation, 30 or more eminent biologists, philosophers and writers (Kortlandt and Teleki among them) are to launch what amounts to a citizen's charter for chimpanzees.

John Reynolds, a conservation biologist at Simon Fraser University near Vancouver, reports that the pink salmon have come back with a vengeance this year, on the heels of record lows in 2007 and 2008: «The grizzlies, of course, can eat the pinks, so it's not all doom and gloom right now.»

Biologists at the Ash Meadows Fish Conservation Facility, less than a mile from Devils Hole, have successfully established a reserve pupfish population that is now reproducing on its own in a 100,000 - gallon refuge tank designed to replicate the species» home in the wild, right down to its shape and temperature.

In late 2010, for example, when ABC hosted a webinar to promote their book The American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation (which, among other things, advises readers to «make TNR and the feeding of cat colonies illegal,» [2]-RRB-, I asked co-authors Daniel Lebbin (conservation biologist for ABC) and Michael Parr (now ABC's VP of planning and program development) about their recommendation for all the cats already liviConservation (which, among other things, advises readers to «make TNR and the feeding of cat colonies illegal,» [2]-RRB-, I asked co-authors Daniel Lebbin (conservation biologist for ABC) and Michael Parr (now ABC's VP of planning and program development) about their recommendation for all the cats already liviconservation biologist for ABC) and Michael Parr (now ABC's VP of planning and program development) about their recommendation for all the cats already living outdoors.

«I think that Curaçao has been really lucky so far,» we were told by Ayana Elizabeth Johnson, a marine biologist who did her doctoral research on fishing practices around coral reefs on the island and now runs the Waitt Institute, a conservation group helping Caribbean islands develop «Blue Halo» marine zoning plans designed to allow communities to «use the ocean without using it up.»

But now, after a few short years of incredibly well - executed conservation tactics, biologists say that the tiny canine has made one of the fastest recoveries of any animal in the history of the Endangered Species Act.