Sentences with phrase «on conservation biologists»

[2] The authors also call on conservation biologists to «begin speaking out» against TNR «at local meetings, through the news media, and at outreach events.»

The authors also call on conservation biologists to «begin speaking out» against TNR «at local meetings, through the news media, and at outreach events» (a message Marra has obviously taken to heart).

Which is precisely what Bird advocates for in «What Conservation Biologists Can Do to Counter Trap - Neuter - Return: Response to Longcore et al.» Along with his nine co-authors, Bird calls on conservation biologists to «begin speaking out» against TNR «at local meetings, through the news media, and at outreach events.»

Not exact matches

He met Becker through George Powell, a conservation biologist who works with Becker on the Wildlife Crime Technology Project.

El Porvenir plans on using the award funds for a biologist - led conservation course at the local school, along with an art contest for students with the theme «Forest Conservaconservation course at the local school, along with an art contest for students with the theme «Forest ConservationConservation.»

Turkalo, 61, is a field biologist for the New York - based Wildlife Conservation Society and arguably the world's foremost expert on African forest elephants (Loxodonta cyclotis).

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.

On the other hand, I'm a conservation biologist because I care about wildlife.

A: As a conservation biologist, it is my day - to - day work to find animals that I'm working on suffering gruesome deaths.

Left to right: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service District Conservationist Brad Michael and Emily Heggenstaller, a golden - winged warbler biologist, meet with private landowners Mike and Laura Jackson to discuss young forest habitat management on their property.

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.

Turkalo is a field biologist for the New York - based Wildlife Conservation Society and arguably the world's foremost expert on African forest elephants.

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.

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

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.

The scientific models that ecologists and conservation biologists rely on to determine which species and habitats to protect lack critical information to help them make effective decisions, according to a new study.

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.

«Anyone who has spent time on the ocean over the last 20 or 30 years will tell you that they used to see lots of sharks and that they don't anymore,» says Boris Worm, a marine conservation biologist and leading expert in shark populations at Dalhousie University in Canada.

Revive & Restore expects to see much more progress in the coming decade given the recent focus on the topic by geneticists, conservation biologists and environmentalists.

High - life monkey: Nature Conservation Foundation biologists on an expedition in India announced the serendipitous find of a new monkey.

«We did not anticipate going out on that survey and not seeing a single baiji, and not hearing a single whistle,» says Barbara Taylor, a conservation biologist at the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, and a member of CIRVA.

Conservation biologist Joel Berger, who has done global research on the fear of predation, believes this phenomenon underscores more fundamental questions — the meaning of fear itself and how it can affect ecosystems.

Barb Taylor is a conservation biologist with NOAA's Southwest Fisheries Science Center in La Jolla, California, and she was the co-chief scientist on an expedition last summer to estimate how many vaquita remain.

«Based on this study, we know that native wildlife can provide you with a pretty significant benefit,» says Daniel Karp, a conservation biologist at Stanford University in California, who led the study.

I read with interest Marc Bekoff and Daniel Ramp's article on the ethics of killing zoo animals (21 June, p 26), as I am a conservation biologist working on human - carnivore conflict resolution.

In fact, there was nothing very special going on at all, except that a few JFK pilots happened to be paying attention yesterday, according to conservation biologist Russell Burke of Hofstra University in New York, who studies terrapins in the Jamaica Bay between Brooklyn and Queens.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

In the new study, a team lead by Isabelle - Anne Bisson, a conservation biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C., set out to assess whether information on wildlife health could be used to predict the emergence of diseasconservation biologist with the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C., set out to assess whether information on wildlife health could be used to predict the emergence of diseasConservation Biology Institute in Washington D.C., set out to assess whether information on wildlife health could be used to predict the emergence of disease in humans.

► On Thursday at ScienceInsider, Erik Stokstad reported on the case of 26 - year - old biologist Diego Gómez Hoyos, a Colombian graduate student seeking a master's degree in conservation and wildlife managemenOn Thursday at ScienceInsider, Erik Stokstad reported on the case of 26 - year - old biologist Diego Gómez Hoyos, a Colombian graduate student seeking a master's degree in conservation and wildlife managemenon the case of 26 - year - old biologist Diego Gómez Hoyos, a Colombian graduate student seeking a master's degree in conservation and wildlife management.

It is a native plant making a comeback, not an invasive on the rampage, says study co-author Alan Tye, a conservation biologist at the South Pacific Regional Environmental Program, based in Samoa.

Written by a commission of 25 biologists and industrialists brought together by conservation bodies, it calls on the government to revoke all planning permission for peat cutting on bogs with conservation value, and to pay compensation where due.

Traditionally, conservation biologists have relied on field observation and sample and statistical analysis to help them understand the dynamics behind species loss, but today genetics is taking on an increasingly important role in helping quantify the biodiversity around us and even save some threatened species.

Prompted by the Wildlife Conservation Society, a young Kenyan - born biologist named Nick Georgiadis embarked on what he called «a long and wonderful hike» across 10 African countries, taking biopsy - dart samples from 600 elephants.

«Understanding the complexity of toad breeding habitat is critical to the conservation of the species,» said Stephanie Barnes, an aquatic biologist on the Sierra National Forest, where 10 of the research meadows were located.

This image by Hara Woltz, a conservation biologist from Columbia University (US), was taken while researching ecological interactions between species and landscapes in the archipelago, and depicts a Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) on Santa Cruz Island utilizing a human road.

In 1997, Erik Meijaard, a co-author of the paper and a biologist with Borneo Futures, a conservation group based in Bandar Seri Begawan, led a team that followed up on a 1935 report by a colonial - era zoologist.

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.»

«Any negative effect will have a long - lasting impact on the population,» says Vincent Nijman, a conservation biologist and anthropologist at Oxford Brookes University in the United Kingdom.

Our role is to match the right team of experts to each project, drawing on the worldwide cadre of 150 conservation biologists, molecular biologists, veterinarians, and bio-ethicists we have been working with.

Elizabeth Crone, Tufts University professor and a co-author on the study, says that «The hard part of being a conservation biologist is documenting species declines.

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.

Results of regular monitoring of the species diversity and structure of plant communities is used by conservation biologists to help understand impacts of perturbations caused by humans and other environmental factors on ecosystems worldwide.

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Charudutt Mishra, Ph.D.: (Snow Leopard Trust & Nature Conservation Foundation) Conservation biologist working to protect threatened species and habitats throughout Central Asia, with a focus on the charismatic and endangered snow leopard.

The results of our study on the conservation of the number of digits provides an important argument in the current controversy on the descent of birds from dinosaurs between developmental biologists and paleontologists.

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.

Our data on the evolutionary conservation of digit development are in support of the views of many developmental biologists that the identity of the digits in the wing of birds can not be homologous to the identity of digits in the forelimbs of their hypothesized dinosaur ancestors, unless the identity of digits in theropods is erroneous.

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

Scott Hardin — a biologist, expert on exotic and invasive species and proud owner of a ball python named Ricky (as in Lucy's husband)-- has the kind of insight that comes only with years of experience working at the intersection of science, environmental stewardship and public policy, balancing conservation of fish and wildlife with responsible pet ownership.