Sentences with phrase «terrestrial wildlife survey»

In 1994, the International Tropical Conservation Foundation (ITCF) conducted a terrestrial wildlife survey of the Bacalar region and determined that Jaguar (Pantera onca) and Puma (Puma concolor) both threatened species, continued to be in existence within the region.

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A team including researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research has developed a novel methodology that, for the first time, combines 3 - D and advanced range estimator technologies to provide highly detailed data on the range and movements of terrestrial, aquatic, and avian wildlife species.

In their survey on wildlife losses, published in Science last year, Rudolfo Dirzo, a biologist at Stanford, and colleagues, reported that terrestrial vertebrates are showing a «25 per cent average decline in abundance» and that «invertebrate patterns are equally dire: 67 per cent of monitored populations show 45 per cent mean abundance decline.

iDNA from terrestrial haematophagous leeches as a wildlife surveying and monitoring tool — prospects, pitfalls and avenues to be developed.