Sentences with phrase «species population management»

The genome - wide genetic diversity of this endangered species can now be evaluated and monitored, making feasible a new era in endangered species population management and providing a genomic toolkit that can assist recovery efforts.

Not exact matches

The less intensive farming practices (plant protection, soil cultivation), the more favourable fertilizing management and the more diversified crop rotations on organic farms enhance specimen - and species - rich earthworm populations.

Natural England commissioned report NECR149 «The role of landscape and site scale characteristics in making species populations resilient to climate change and extreme events» http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/publication/5849831096451072 BASC white paper «The role of shooting in landscape - scale land management» http://basc.org.uk/business-intelligence-unit/what-we-do/white-papers/

Dr Sue Walker, Head of Applied Science at Chester zoo, said: «Zoos specialise in population management and have developed a wide range of innovative techniques to monitor the species under their care.

The future of our species, many researchers believe, lies in sustainable megacities that can support dense populations through efficient resource management.

«The findings bring into question how important sharks and rays are to the alligator diet as well as the fatality of some the juvenile sharks when we think about population management of endangered species,» Nifong said.

The finding, experts say, has implications for conservation management, which often solely focuses on the number of animals in a population, and may extend to chimpanzees, dolphins, whales, and other species.

«The responses of fish species to extreme weather events will need to be considered when planning management strategies to ensure efforts are appropriately targeted to maintain key population segments and critical evacuation routes,» said Dave Secor, the study's co-author at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory.

1.6 %: estimated proportion of marine fish species (for which trend data exist) with increasing populations, due to improved conditions including better fishing management and decreased eutrophication

The new database «is the most valuable effort to date to summarize the state of conservation and threats to the world's mammal populations,» says mammalogist Don Wilson of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. «By detailing threats at the species level, it will now be possible for management agencies in every country in the world to prioritize their efforts to try to mitigate these threats.»

These results have major implications for management strategies aimed at the recovery of Northwest Atlantic loggerheads and the projected recovery rates of this population, which is considered threatened under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.

In order to mitigate risks of further species loss and to work towards recovery of threatened butterfly populations, the review ends by recommending twelve management measures favourable for many butterflies.

For example, systems behaviour charts would have prompted straightforward landscape management to halt the terminal decline of a ground squirrel population in the US since signals in existing species» population data would have been identified three years ahead of the population's eventual demise.

While hotly contested and anathema to some, intensive population management of rare species has a long and successful history in forestry and wildlife management and is in wide use.

It demonstrates that a combination of techniques can do much to illuminate causes of population declines, improve decision making for conservation management and possibly prevent similar developments in populations of other species of similar ecological standing.

«We will continue to see shifts in the range of marine populations, and the shifts will change the ecosystem, those who fish for these species in the ecosystem inbcluding the coasta lcommunities supporting the fisheries, and the management systems regulating the fisheries,» Fogarty said.

The paper was published in the journal Biological Invasions and also examines impacts sika deer have had on the native white - tailed deer populations in an attempt to provide information that could lead to better management of the species.

For example, systems behaviour charts would have prompted straightforward landscape management to halt the terminal decline of a ground squirrel population in the US, since signals in existing species» population data would have been identified three years ahead of their eventual demise.

Migration and habitat use behaviors and their influence on population dynamics of coastal fishes, diadromous species, recruitment dynamics, habitat ecology, ecosystem based approaches to fisheries management

Understanding the composition of the ladybug population, says Losey, may lead to better crop management and conservation of native species down the road.

This confirmed the findings of our research, that wandering cats pose a threat to native species (including birds and lizards), and that the cat population required management.

Only now, for example — after years of struggling with this issue — does FWS propose to «implement monitoring and conduct further research as needed to determine abundance and distribution of free - roaming cats throughout the Refuge, document effectiveness of management actions taken or not taken on cat populations, and determine the impacts on the ecosystems and native species to aid in the adaptive management process.»

Protecting endangered species requires an understanding and management of the main threats likely to cause population declines.

Second, coyote hunting contests presented as management strategies for species overpopulation are unsupported by population counts or research.

While a successful captive breeding and release program has yet to be developed for any parrot species, we do support scientifically - based, bona fide parrot conservation programs undertaken by teams of experts in population genetics, ecology, animal behavior, habitat conservation and restoration, natural resource management, economics, politics, sociology, and all of the other fields that must be considered if such a program is to succeed.

Whereas this has had noticeable, negative impacts that are expected to worsen in every region of the United States and its territories, including, among other significant weather events and environmental disruptions, longer and hotter heat waves, more severe storms, worsening flood and drought cycles, growing invasive species and insect problems, threatened native plant and wildlife populations, rising sea levels, and, when combined with a lack of proper forest management, increased wildfire risk;

He applies the science of population ecology both to the conservation of rare species and the management of harvested populations.

Plaintiff Oceana, Inc. («Oceana») on behalf of its adversely affected members hereby challenges the unlawful decision of the National Marine Fisheries Service («Fisheries Service» or «Defendants») to adopt and promulgate Amendment 5b to the Highly Migratory Species («HMS») Fishery Management Plan because it failed to establish measures necessary to end overfishing and rebuild the dusky shark population to a healthy level as mandated by the Magnuson - Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act («Magnuson - Stevens Act»).

If we are to conserve the world's remaining shark populations, management schemes, fishery regulations and trade regimes must take into account the extraordinary life history of this fascinating group of species.

It points to «longer and hotter heat waves, more severe storms, worsening flood and drought cycles, growing invasive species and insect problems, threatened native plant and wildlife populations, rising sea levels, and, when combined with a lack of proper forest management, increased wildfire risk.»

Climate change, population growth, water supply demands, and endangered species listings have brought this outmoded water and flood management system to the brink.