Sentences with phrase «of conservation biologists»

And although species have throughout geological time responded to climate fluctuations, one of the primary concerns of conservation biologists is the current rapid rates of human - caused climate change.

Kareiva is part a broad and deep lineage of conservation biologists and ecologists whose work and world views were deeply shaped by Paine.

From Tierra del Fuego... After observing and interacting with the methods used by a group of conservation biologists working inKarukinka1 Natural Park in Tierra del Fuego (Chilean Patagonia), Camila Marambio, an independent curator, was stirred to question the uselesness of art.

The evidence of the strong impact of cats on wildlife has focused the attention of conservation biologists towards possible methods of reducing that pressure.

As production of shale gas soars, the industry's effects on nature and wildlife remain largely unexplored, according to a study by a group of conservation biologists published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment on August 1.

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They include a small - town conservation biologist and a couple of big - city ex-bankers who met after the easements law was changed — at a moment in the wake of the real estate crisis when investors began looking for ways to salvage value from land whose price had plummeted.

He has been a practicing ornithologist and conservation biologist for 30 years, specializing in integrating behavioral studies of rare and endangered bird species with habitat conservation planning.

Titled «The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation,» the book — published in March 2018 — is written by a collection of authors from zoos and aquariums, including Shedd Aquarium's Vice President of Conservation Research Dr. Chuck Knapp, as well as an impressive roster of university - based historians, biologists, ethicists and social scientists.

«I'm thrilled to be part of this extremely talented team of biologists, land protection experts, conservation advocates, and environmental educators, all of whom are so committed to protecting our wildlife resources,» he said.

«We were able to pinpoint some of those and highlight areas of interest to conservation biologists.

«Her dataset is one of a kind,» says Colorado State University conservation biologist George Wittemyer, chairman of the scientific board for the Kenya - based Save the Elephants, a nongovernmental organization.

The reserve is one of the largest in the world and has been heralded as a huge success, but this study, led by conservation biologist Leah Gerber of Arizona State University in Tempe, highlights one possible down - side to the reserve.

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.

Planted Forests Project On the Southeast Asian island of Borneo, loggers, conservation biologists, and indigenous groups are coming together to test a new model of land use that gives everyone a piece of the pie.

Schaller calls the work of conservation «a gigantic, continuous headache,» explaining that «instead of just being a biologist — something for which I was trained — I must also be a fund - raiser, diplomat, politician, sociologist, anthropologist, everything at once.»

«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.

By the end I was hooked: I knew that I wanted to continue working as a biologist in the realm of international cooperation, contributing to nature conservation and the transfer of knowledge.

The quotation is a favorite of George Schaller, considered the finest field biologist of our time and the most powerful voice for conservation in more than 100 years.

Field biologist Emma Stokes was working for the Wildlife Conservation Society in the forests of northern Congo in 2008 when she and her team announced the discovery of 125,000 western lowland gorillas, doubling the known number of that species.

That pattern makes sense to David Inouye, a 56 - year - old ecologist and conservation biologist at the University of Maryland, College Park.

The issue took center stage this week here at the International Congress for Conservation Biology when Neil Burgess, a conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen who has worked with the WWF in Tanzania, projected a cartoon that conservationists there used depicting a montane landscape with and Conservation Biology when Neil Burgess, a conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen who has worked with the WWF in Tanzania, projected a cartoon that conservationists there used depicting a montane landscape with and conservation biologist at the University of Copenhagen who has worked with the WWF in Tanzania, projected a cartoon that conservationists there used depicting a montane landscape with and without PES.

«These guys work their asses off to protect these wolves,» says Claudio Sillero, a conservation biologist at the University of Oxford who heads up the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme, of which the field monitoring team is an inconservation biologist at the University of Oxford who heads up the Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme, of which the field monitoring team is an inConservation Programme, of which the field monitoring team is an integral part.

Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows that private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land.

«This study gives NRCS a unique perspective on how landowners perceive the conservation planning help we provide them to manage sustainable working lands and emphasizes the importance of including landowners when assessing outcomes of conservation efforts,» said Charlie Rewa, the NRCS biologist coordinating CEAP's wildlife component.

Claire Kremen, a conservation biologist at the University of California, Berkeley (and Harmon - Threatt's mentor), has shown that the diversity of pollinators drops with increasing distance from wild habitat, as does the number of visits by wild bees to flowering crops.

Conservation biologists have developed a number of methods for restoring the balance between ourselves and nature, for saving biodiversity.

For the last 12 years the lab of ornithology had been involved in research and conservation and training, building of capacity with biologists and scientists from Cuba.

After 15 years of frustration, conservation biologists have learned how to do a better job influencing policy.

«Captive breeding is not always a safe haven,» concludes conservation biologist Stuart Pimm of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Most of Davidar's former students work in conservation, although some are academic biologists.

However, a lack of agreement between conservation biologists and space agencies on a definitive set of variables to track, as well as how to translate such information into useful data for conservation, has meant that so far this game - changing resource has remained untapped.

The findings, published in this month's issue of Conservation Biology, support the growing belief among biologists that nature preserves should be large enough to provide a buffer zone around the edges to protect a central core.

Translocation of individuals back to the wild is one of many important tools that conservation biologists use to recover endangered and threatened species.

In a richly illustrated, 400 - page tome, Precious Heritage: The Status of Biodiversity in the United States, published by Oxford University Press, the groups present what conservation biologist Peter Kareiva of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration calls «the most extraordinary assemblage of biodiversity data ever published.»

Nonetheless, some prominent biologists question whether «de-extincting» species is a smart conservation strategy — or if it merely distracts from protecting the thousands of species at risk today.

Leakey's promotion, says conservation biologist David Woodruff of the University of California, San Diego, «has little to do with wildlife conservation or natural resource stewardship for the people of Kenya and everything to do with national politics and power.»

Even so, Samuel Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, says that policy - makers should err on the side of caution.

«Losing all of these species is not absolutely inevitable,» says lead author Chris Thomas, a conservation biologist at the University of Leeds, U.K..

But, according to evolutionary biologist John Gittleman of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the research raises the point that «it's not effective to do conservation science one species at a time.

Many kingdoms make up its three domains, but only two of those kingdoms within the domain Eukaryota, the Plantae and Animalia, appear to merit conservation biologists» attention.

Ctenomys erikacuellarae was named in honor of Erika Cuellar, a Rolex award - winning conservation biologist from Bolivia who participated in field expeditions as a student in the 1990s.

In this episode, biologist, ecologist and Pulitzer Prize - winning writer Jared Diamond discusses the environmental state of the world and the relationship between the environment and economics and politics in remarks at a recent benefit for the organization Conservation International.

Dee Boersma, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle, says flipper bands likely do have some harmful effect, but the severity of the effect depends on the species of penguin being studied and the type of band used.

That's because poachers are decimating the forest elephants, says Samuel Wasser, a conservation biologist at the University of Washington, Seattle.

To see where cowbirds reproduce most successfully, conservation biologist Rachael Winfree of Princeton University in New Jersey compared nests in an old field to those in a patch of forest.

«We found that prized sportfish, such as Brook trout and the smaller fish that trout eat, are disappearing from lakes where species of Bass have expanded their habitats,» said Karen Alofs, a postdoctoral researcher working with ecologist and conservation biologist Donald Jackson in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at U of T, describing a study published this week in Proceeding of the Royal Society B.

The idea still has some hurdles to overcome, not least the inherent horror of many conservation biologists at tampering with nature, no matter how human - dominated it is.

Wells, a conservation biologist, plants his feet and spins the wheel of his 18 - foot open fisherman, veering toward the spot where he's glimpsed a sleek dorsal fin under the Lido Key Bridge.

In the latest peer - reviewed publication on the potential impacts of a border wall on plants and animals, conservation biologists, led by a pair of scientists from The University of Texas at Austin, say that border walls threaten to harm endangered Texas plants and animals and cause trouble for the region's growing ecotourism industry.

«By understanding how this animal adapts to changes in the environment, we can determine what we really need to be concerned about and what we really should be doing,» says Stephen DeStefano, a conservation biologist at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and author of the new book, Coyote at the Kitchen Door: Living with Wildlife in Suburbia (Harvard University Press, 2010).