Sentences with phrase «species control efforts»

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Mass Audubon's efforts to control common reed at Rough Meadows complement similar efforts by others to control and prevent the spread of common reed and other non-native invasive plant species throughout the Great Marsh ecosystem.

But dictating the species composition of a plankton bloom and its aftermath remains beyond the ken of marine biology, causing one researcher involved in the successful 2004 effort, marine biologist Victor Smetacek of the Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research in Germany, to call it beyond control at this stage.

This raises significant new concerns in the effort to control this invasive species that is devastating native fish populations on the Atlantic Coast and in the Caribbean Sea.

The paper also provides evidence that regulatory approaches are being overwhelmed by the drivers of poaching and trade, with enforcement of trade controls, including those agreed through CITES — the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species — attracting organised criminals who have the capacity to operate even under increased enforcement effort.

And efforts to manage water and species recovery are fragmented, with hundreds of local and regional agencies responsible for water supply, water treatment, flood control, and land - use decisions.

Attempts to control schistosomiasis by focusing on the snail hosts date to the 1950s, but earlier efforts involved either molluscicides — poisons — or the introduction of non-host snail species to eat or compete with the hosts.

And globally, the cost of invasive species» impact and control efforts is an estimated five percent of the world's annual economy.

The Black - footed Ferret has been listed as an endangered species since 1967; more than a half century of misguided predator control campaigns and efforts to eradicate prairie dogs from farm and ranch land decimated the population.

Some bacteria species (most notably, MRSA) have even acquired resistance to several different drugs, complicating efforts to control and treat infections as they spread.

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No report is made on efforts to control the casuarina trees, an invasive species in the wider Caribbean and observed in the terrestrial part of the Bacalar Chico component by the 2009 reactive monitoring mission.

Efforts need to be made to control additional exotic species from making this island their home.

Unless more robust efforts are made to control these ravenous invaders, local extinction is a real possibility for some bird species.

How can the rest of the world expect these two large countries to make a serious effort to control overpopulation if the rest of the world doesn't also seriously embrace their own contributions to there already being too many of the human species on this planet?

It's almost certain that any effort at controlling this species, as with the introduced Burmese pythons spreading in Florida, will at best be a holding operation.