Sentences with phrase «species conservation biologist»

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Emma Pelton, Endangered Species Conservation Biologist; [phone] x102, [email protected] New Guidelines for Protecting California's Monarch Butterfly Groves Protecting and managing overwintering sites is essential if the monarch's migration is to be sustained PORTLAND, Ore.; November 9, 2017 — The image of monarch butterflies winging their way for hundreds or thousands of miles Read more...

Emma Pelton, endangered species conservation biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and co-author of the study, said the research will help conservationists better understand the extinction risk of western monarchs.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

If the same holds true for other species, Hunt says, conservation biologists may want to take sexual dimorphism into account when assessing species» vulnerability to current environmental threats.

In addition to Barrows, the authors are Michelle Murphy - Mariscal, lead biologist for the Western Riverside Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, and Rebecca Hernandez, an assistant professor at UC Davis who was previous a post-doctoral fellow at UC Berkeley.

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

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.

«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.

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.

«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.

De-extinction — bringing back extinct animal and plant species — is a term that conservation biologists and environmentalists have been bandying about for a decade or so.

Conservation biologists often need to predict where rare species are capable of living — for selecting the best site for a national park, for example, or forecasting how badly a species» range will suffer as the climate changes in the future.

«Tropical species in Brazil or Kenya will indeed be much more sensitive to small temperature shifts than their temperate counterparts in places like England and Saskatchewan,» adds biologist Robert Pringle of Stanford University's Center for Conservation Biology.

«[Brazil's] borders are hard to control and its extraordinary biodiversity is often seen as easy money by trafficking networks,» says Juan Carlos Cantú, a biologist in Mexico City who manages the Mexico office of Defenders of Wildlife, a conservation group in Washington, D.C. Birds are especially vulnerable, and parrots top the list of threatened species because of the high demand for them in the pet market.

Conservation biologists see success in killing invasive gray squirrels to protect a native species

«We don't even know that there is a decline in reptile species as there is with certain amphibian species,» says Hank Jenkins, a biologist at the Australian Nature Conservation Agency in Canberra.

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.

«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.

Biologists at the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) have named three new, rare ant species in Africa after important figures in African biodiversity conservation — a former United States president, a writer - activist, and a world - renowned scientist.

While conservation biologists prefer to help a species survive in its natural environment, extreme cases like that of the chicken frog call for extreme rescue measures.

Conservation biologists will need to keep track of the types of species that they find in these places.

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.

conservation biologist A scientist who investigates strategies for helping preserve ecosystems and especially species that are in danger of extinction.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Sarina Jepsen, Endangered Species Program Director, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, [phone], [email protected] Emma Pelton, Conservation Biologist, Endangered Species Program, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, [phone], [email protected] Western Monarch Butterflies Continue to...

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.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contacts: Sarina Jepsen, Endangered Species Program Director, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, [phone], [email protected] Emma Pelton, Conservation Biologist, Endangered Species Program, The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, [phone], [email protected] Western Monarch Butterflies Continue to Decline Annual census of monarchs overwintering on the California coast reveals the lowest number of Read more...

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.

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.

«Tom Bly, fisheries biologist with the AGFC said that feral cats are considered an invasive species by conservation agencies and organizations nationwide.

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.

As part of the proceedings, the GGRO — a Parks Conservancy program in cooperation with the National Park Service — will help commemorate the 50th anniversary of a watershed moment in conservation science: the first gathering of biologists convened specifically to stop the disappearance of a species from the planet.

Toughie, living alone in recent years in a special habitat at the Atlanta Botanical Garden, was one of several dozen Rabbs» frogs and tadpoles captured in Panama in 2005 and brought to Atlanta by biologists practicing the emerging art of «captive conservation» — trying to safeguard this (and other) tropical frog species ahead of the fungal holocaust.

The work, led by Kashmira Kakati, a wildlife biologist, and financed by the Government of Assam and a group of conservation organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society, suggest that the forest is home to a range of valuable species, scientists familiar with the work said in announcing tconservation organizations including the Wildlife Conservation Society, suggest that the forest is home to a range of valuable species, scientists familiar with the work said in announcing tConservation Society, suggest that the forest is home to a range of valuable species, scientists familiar with the work said in announcing the findings.

«We're definitely seeing species going extinct because of climate change,» says Camille Parmesan, a conservation biologist at University of Texas.

At an Aspen Environmental Forum this summer, Marris annoyed eminent conservation biologist E.O. Wilson by talking about expanding our definition of nature, perhaps even to include invasive species.

While Mr. Kempthorne and Dale Hall, director of the Fish and Wildlife Service, said Wednesday that they saw no separate risk to polar bears from oil and gas activity, the latest assessment of the species for the International Conservation Union, by a group of experts including Fish and Wildlife Service biologists, did include such activity in a list of threats, including toxic contaminants, shipping and recreational viewing.

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.

Swingland (a conservation biologist with The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology) edits 20 chapters including electricity generation options for reduction in carbon emissions, species survival and carbon retention in commercially exploited tropical rainforest, and a legal analysis of carbon sinks and emissions trading under the Kyoconservation biologist with The Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology) edits 20 chapters including electricity generation options for reduction in carbon emissions, species survival and carbon retention in commercially exploited tropical rainforest, and a legal analysis of carbon sinks and emissions trading under the KyoConservation and Ecology) edits 20 chapters including electricity generation options for reduction in carbon emissions, species survival and carbon retention in commercially exploited tropical rainforest, and a legal analysis of carbon sinks and emissions trading under the Kyoto Protocol.

«We challenge ecologists to incorporate species interactions and dispersal differences into future predictions of biodiversity under climate change, and we suggest that conservation biologists should consider concentrating protection efforts on those species that disperse poorly and interact strongly.»

This document provides wildlife and conservation biologists with a technical summary that they can use as an information resource for assessing the vulnerability of Maine's wildlife habitats, plant communities and species to climate change, which will aid in the development of effective adaptation measures.

An ecologist and a biologist have created a conservation drone complete with cameras, sensors and GPS to map deforestation and count orangutans and other endangered species in northern Sumatra.

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.

Mongabay reports that Lian Pin Koh, an ecologist at the ETH Zürich, and Serge Wich, a biologist at the University of Zürich and PanEco have created a conservation drone complete with cameras, sensors and GPS to map deforestation and count orangutans and other endangered species in northern Sumatra.

I have two brothers who are PhD scientists in related fields (one is actually an ornithologist / conservation biologist, researching the impact of Central American agriculture on endangered species).

As the Endangered Species Act nears its 40th birthday at the end of December, conservation biologists are coming to terms with a danger not foreseen in the early 1970s: global climate change Federal fisheries scientists have published a special section in this month's issue of Conservation Biology that outlines some considerations for comconservation biologists are coming to terms with a danger not foreseen in the early 1970s: global climate change Federal fisheries scientists have published a special section in this month's issue of Conservation Biology that outlines some considerations for comConservation Biology that outlines some considerations for coming decades.