Sentences with phrase «on rodent populations»

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On Thursday, the museum — which bills itself as the oldest in Chicago — will turn out some of its rarer animal specimens, including a small rodent called a southern rock vole and two specimens of prairie chicken, a species whose population has rapidly declined due to habitat destruction.

Based on estimates of Europe's total jackal population, the overall figures could be as high as 13,000 tonnes of animal remains and 158 million rodents, they claim (Biological Conservation, doi.org/bhxn).

Subsequent to this, weight - loss trials within human populations 35 - 52 as well as some rodent trials 22, 27, 53, 54 have used an array of IER protocols which permit a small energy load to be consumed on the «fast» day, so that energy intake is partially but not completely restricted.

The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the IER literature to date, with a specific focus on its effects on cardiometabolic health indices in rodent and human populations.

It will also be important to determine the effects of IER in other populations, for example in individuals with more profound metabolic derangements such as those with established T2DM, the evidence for which is relatively sparse.36 Additionally, given that several rodent and human IER (50 - 100 % ER on restricted days) trials have demonstrated metabolic improvements in the absence of overall ER 15, 22, 27, 31, 53,105, one can speculate that IER may have potential applications within non-overweight populations and as a maintenance strategy post-weight-loss.

Research Assistant, Institute of Ecosystem Studies, NY (May 00 — Aug 00) The interactions of tree regeneration, rodent and bird populations, and tick density and their effect on the risk of human exposure to vector - borne disease.

And even if FWS is successful at removing cats from some locations, the IPMP / EA fails to take into account the risk of mesopredator release — the inevitable spike in non-native rodent populations — and its impact on the native species the IPMP / EA aims to protect.

While Drumlin Farm is a wildlife sanctuary and doesn't generally allow pets on site, this role of a barn cat, keeping the rodent population in check, is an important function in a working barn.

While these cats become part of the natural ecosystem, often reducing the rodent population in our neighborhoods, they can also have a negative impact on native wildlife and songbirds.

Not only was the Siberian Forest cat talked and written about, it was also highly revered for its natural hunting abilities in keeping the rodent population under control on the local farms.

Gone are the doubts that George expressed — first, regarding the impact of cat predation on rodent and other prey populations; second, regarding the relationship between these populations and the raptors that feed on them.

Over time they were bred for smaller sizes to be ratters, and they were often brought aboard on ships to keep the rodent population under control.

Feral cats also bring pests like fleas and ticks, and they can start to affect the environment by preying on natural bird and rodent populations.

Rodent populations should also be controlled since they can lead to an increase in fleas which feed on tapeworm eggs.

Hundreds of years later and there's nothing but a thriving population of cats and rodents — all the native wildlife on those islands now either extinct or on the brink of extinction because of it.

By «regulating» smaller predators like foxes, raccoons, skunks, badgers, and opossums through competition and direct killing, they have a significant positive impact on rodent control and water fowl / songbird populations.

On Macquarie Island successful eradication has had «dire» [45] consequences in the form of rapidly increasing rabbit and rodent populations.

Potential impacts of climate change on the transmission of Lyme disease include: 1) changes in the geographic distribution of the disease due to the increase in favorable habitat for ticks to survive off their hosts; 85 2) a lengthened transmission season due to earlier onset of higher temperatures in the spring and later onset of cold and frost; 3) higher tick densities leading to greater risk in areas where the disease is currently observed, due to milder winters and potentially larger rodent host populations; and 4) changes in human behaviors, including increased time outdoors, which may increase the risk of exposure to infected ticks.