Sentences with phrase «wildlife ecologist»

David Ainley, a senior wildlife ecologist at ecological consulting firm H.T. Harvey & Associates who studies Antarctic penguin colonies, says that, aside from giving Magellanic chicks the chills, rain can also damage the burrows that they live in during their early days.

Teams of scientists from Michigan Technological University led by wildlife ecologist Rolf Peterson since 1975, and joined in 2000 by John Vucetich, assistant professor of forest resources and environmental science, have carefully monitored the waxing and waning of these animal populations.

According to Dr. Bill Merkle, wildlife ecologist for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, the average count at Ocean Beach is in the low - to mid-20s per survey.

``... it may be that conservation biologists and wildlife ecologists believe the issue of feral cats has already been studied enough and that the work speaks for itself, suggesting that no further research is needed.»

Leading wildlife ecologists applaud the study for putting forward a surprising hypothesis and bringing together so much evidence from around the world.

The full report, prepared by wildlife ecologist Dr Dror Ben - Ami, also includes material on contamination of kangaroo meat and sustainability issues.

«It's creepy out here,» observes my guide, wildlife ecologist Chris Wilmers from the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In a study published last year, National Park Service wildlife ecologist Seth Riley described unusual, destructive behavior.

This provoked a strong rebuttal by wildlife ecologist Graeme Caughley, who suggested that because the factors that may have resulted in this irruption were «hopelessly confounded,» a case study of the Kaibab provided an ineffective example of top - down control.

In a 1999 article wildlife ecologist Joel Brown noted that the nonlethal effects of predators can be ecologically more important than the direct mortality they inflict.

Although pronghorn can scoot under vehicle barriers, they seem to avoid doing so, says University of Arizona wildlife ecologist Dave Christianson.

«There's a good chance they can solve the problem,» says wildlife ecologist Michael Samuel of the University of Wisconsin in Madison.

A more precise estimate of the antelope's range would help to target conservation efforts, says Nicholas Wilkinson, a Vietnam - based wildlife ecologist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who is working with the conservation group WWF.

University of Oxford wildlife ecologist Amy Dickman said she was not surprised by the number of orangutans being killed in Indonesia.

«I am 100 percent confident she was not poisoning cats,» says University of Hawaii wildlife ecologist Christopher Lepczyk, who fears that she was convicted in part because of her articles about the cat - predation problem.

ELEANOR HALL: That's wildlife ecologist Hugh McGregor ending that report by Rachel Carbonell and Erin Parke.

The reasons behind this lack of opposition are unclear, but it may be that conservation biologists and wildlife ecologists believe the issue of feral cats has already been studied enough and that the work speaks for itself, suggesting that no further research is needed.

The researchers mined a vast trove of devil DNA collected and stored before and after the outbreak of DFTD by wildlife ecologist and associate professor Menna Jones, study co-author, and her research team at the University of Tasmania.

The work is a «huge breakthrough» that should help conservationists protect this endangered predator, says Melvin Sunquist, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville.

John Mathai, lead author of the overarching carnivore community paper in the supplement and a wildlife ecologist from Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, studies Hose's civet in the highlands of Sarawak.

John Maerz, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Georgia, says that adult salamanders that consume these earthworms are more successful at reproduction but that earthworms are too big for juvenile salamanders to eat, which leads to a net loss in salamander numbers.

It's not news to wildlife ecologists that large carnivores give birth and mature at a leisurely pace or that they live complex social lives.

The study did not check the health of wolves or elk, however, and Joshua Millspaugh, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Missouri, Columbia, notes that it's not clear what glucocorticoid levels indicate potential harm to an animal.

To estimate the numbers and distribution of mule deer and mountain lions in Utah, Nevada and Arizona, David Stoner, a wildlife ecologist at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, used imagery of plant productivity from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, flown on NASA's Terra and Aqua satellites, plus radio - telemetry measurements of animal density and movements.

Levi received his Ph.D. last year and is a wildlife ecologist at the Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies in New York.

«It turns out that keeping warm is a very expensive activity for these birds, and flying is a relatively cheap activity,» says Ronald Larkin, a wildlife ecologist at the Illinois Natural History Survey and a member of the research team.

Typically, seeds spread by animals — including insects — simply stick to the outside of the body and eventually fall off, says Kevina Vulinec, a wildlife ecologist at Delaware State University in Dover.

«This paper will cause a stir as it really is the first to scientifically illustrate the value of fencing for the conservation of a large predator,» predicts Matt Hayward, a wildlife ecologist with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy in New South Wales, who was not involved in the study.

«The places are just disasters,» says Craig Thompson, a wildlife ecologist at the U.S. Forest Service and lead author of a 2014 paper showing that proximity to illegal cultivation sites affects fisher mortality rates.

Despite their extensive range, researchers know little about the behavior of these solitary creatures, says Mark Elbroch, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Davis.

«Nobody has looked at this with pumas before,» says Christopher Wilmers, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who was not involved in the study.

Emilio Bruna (above right), a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, talks to Next Wave's Robin Arnette about his research in the Amazon.

«I believe this is the first study to document that a large, solitary carnivore provides a significant food subsidy for scavengers, other carnivores, and omnivores,» says Paul Beier, a wildlife ecologist at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff who wasn't involved in the research.

«That's a well - established strategy in ecology,» says Scott Creel, a wildlife ecologist at Montana State University, Bozeman.

But the study may raise more questions than it answers, says Merav Ben - David, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, who was not involved in this research.

«People fear bears,» says Marcus Elfström, a wildlife ecologist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU) in Ås, Norway, who was not involved in the research.

The relative freedom of movement and high levels of global trade in the West account for the difference, says co-author Susan Shirley, a wildlife ecologist at Oregon State University, Corvallis.

«For a wildlife ecologist, Kansas is a great place to be,» she said.

In their recent comment, Lepczyk et al. suggest that conservation biologists and wildlife ecologists «look to the evolutionary biology community» [1] for an example of how to influence policy.

«It's not the kind of person she is,» says Christopher Lepczyk, a wildlife ecologist and friend of Dauphiné's.»

Bill Merkle, a wildlife ecologist for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, notes that mission blues are closely tied to the coastal grassland habitat, which used to be well - distributed throughout the Bay Area.

Dr. Mazzotti, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Florida, visited with residents of San Pedro Town in an effort to educate them in the proper management of crocodiles.

Juanita Constible, a wildlife ecologist who's spent time in Antarctica, has a piece summarizing the climate context at the Web site of the Climate Reality Project.

«The American pika may be an early - warning indicator of generally how alpine species may respond to contemporary climate change,» said Erik Beever, Ph.D., a wildlife ecologist who has studied pikas for the past 16 years.

Tobias Kuemmerle, a wildlife ecologist at the University of Wisconsin - Madison who studies the bison, explains that, because the current population descended from just 12 individuals, it is genetically alike.