Sentences with phrase «says wildlife ecologist»

«There's a good chance they can solve the problem,» says wildlife ecologist Michael Samuel of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

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The work is a «huge breakthrough» that should help conservationists protect this endangered predator, says Melvin Sunquist, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

That means that wildlife managers need to start thinking now about new ways to reduce human - bird conflicts in urban areas, says Madhusudan Katti, an ecologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who was not involved in the study.

John Maerz, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Georgia, says that adult salamanders that consume these earthworms are more successful at reproduction but that earthworms are too big for juvenile salamanders to eat, which leads to a net loss in salamander numbers.

A mismanaged government and widespread corruption have been the major stumbling blocks in saving Kenya's famed wildlife, says Agi Kiss, principal ecologist at the World Bank's Africa Environment Group.

Research by Michigan State University, published in the current issue of Bioscience, explores the paradox that although ecologists share findings via scientific journals, they do not share the data on which the studies are built, said Patricia Soranno, MSU fisheries and wildlife professor and co-author of the paper.

Typically, seeds spread by animals — including insects — simply stick to the outside of the body and eventually fall off, says Kevina Vulinec, a wildlife ecologist at Delaware State University in Dover.

«The places are just disasters,» says Craig Thompson, a wildlife ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service and lead author of a 2014 paper showing that proximity to illegal cultivation sites affects fisher mortality rates.

Despite their extensive range, researchers know little about the behavior of these solitary creatures, says Mark Elbroch, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Davis.

«Nobody has looked at this with pumas before,» says Christopher Wilmers, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study.

«That's a well - established strategy in ecology,» says Scott Creel, a wildlife ecologist at Montana State University, Bozeman.

Although pronghorn can scoot under vehicle barriers, they seem to avoid doing so, says University of Arizona wildlife ecologist Dave Christianson.

But the study may raise more questions than it answers, says Merav Ben - David, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, who was not involved in this research.

The relative freedom of movement and high levels of global trade in the West account for the difference, says co-author Susan Shirley, a wildlife ecologist at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

A more precise estimate of the antelope's range would help to target conservation efforts, says Nicholas Wilkinson, a Vietnam - based wildlife ecologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who is working with the conservation group WWF.

«I am 100 percent confident she was not poisoning cats,» says University of Hawaii wildlife ecologist Christopher Lepczyk, who fears that she was convicted in part because of her articles about the cat - predation problem.

«The American pika may be an early - warning indicator of generally how alpine species may respond to contemporary climate change,» said Erik Beever, Ph.D., a wildlife ecologist who has studied pikas for the past 16 years.