Sentences with phrase «study endangered birds»

«But the same theories we use to study endangered birds can be used to do this.»

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.

The study, by researchers at University of Wisconsin - Madison, the National Park Service and the U.S. Geological Survey, focused on a nest - protection program that was based on the logical assumption that endangered birds would reproduce and prosper if people are kept away from their nests.

Water development, including damming, harms 91 percent of endangered fish species and 22 percent of endangered birds in the United States, according to a study published in Bioscience [subscription required].

A team led by University of California, Santa Barbara plant ecologist Shelley Crausbay is studying high - elevation cloud forests that provide habitat for a number of rare birds, most of which are endangered.

A survey of studies has determined that climate change has had a particularly dire effect on mammals and birds on the endangered species list.

Results from a study of endangered New Zealand hihi birds (Notiomystis cincta), published in Evolutionary Applications, showed that bachelor males who don't hold breeding territories, known as «floaters», could help maintain genetic diversity and decrease the likelihood of inbreeding by sneakily fathering chicks.

He has particular interests in (1) the use of ancient DNA methods to document changes in genetic variation through time and phylogenetic relationships of extinct or endangered organisms (especially of the recently extinct Hawaiian avifauna); (2) the use of highly variable genetic markers to measure genetic structure and relatedness, and to ascertain mating systems, in natural populations, and (3) the use of genetics to study the evolutionary interactions between hosts, vectors and infectious disease organisms (e.g., major projects on introduced avian malaria in native Hawaiian birds and invasive chytrid fungus in amphibians).

He also writes about those who study the birds and struggle to preserve the endangered species, which has dwindled in numbers from some 150,000 to less than 25,000.

They promote spending $ 22 billion just in federal money during FY - 2014 on climate change studies; costly solar projects of every description; wind turbines that blight scenic vistas and slaughter millions of birds and bats annually, while wind energy developers are exempted from endangered species and other environmental laws that apply to all other industries; and ethanol programs that require millions of acres of farmland and vast quantities of water, fertilizer, pesticides and fossil fuel energy to produce a gasoline additive that reduces mileage, harms engines, drives up food prices... and increases CO2 emissions.

A 2002 study in Spain, home of Don Quixote, estimated that 11,200 birds of prey, some of them endangered species, are killed every year by wind turbines and power lines.