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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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

«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.

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.

«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.

«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.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

``... 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 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.

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.

Not exact matches

That means that wildlife managers need to start thinking now about new ways to reduce human - bird conflicts in urban areas, says Madhusudan Katti, an ecologist at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, who was not involved in the study.

A mismanaged government and widespread corruption have been the major stumbling blocks in saving Kenya's famed wildlife, says Agi Kiss, principal ecologist at the World Bank's Africa Environment Group.

Research by Michigan State University, published in the current issue of Bioscience, explores the paradox that although ecologists share findings via scientific journals, they do not share the data on which the studies are built, said Patricia Soranno, MSU fisheries and wildlife professor and co-author of the paper.

The forum brought together many of the world's top disease ecologists, wildlife biologists, immunologists, virologists, vaccinologists, epidemiologists, wildlife veterinarians and pathologists, and policy experts to explore whether it would be appropriate and feasible to develop approaches to canine distemper vaccination to protect at - risk wild carnivore populations.

Dávalos» team is now working to bring together a larger, interdisciplinary team of colleagues to create an intensive conservation management plan incorporating the expertise of conservation researchers, biologist, ecologists, policy - makers, educators, and land and wildlife management experts to save the last surviving native Caribbean mammals.

MMF is the brainchild of Steve Bellan, an ecologist at the University of California, Berkeley, who specializes in the epidemiology of wildlife diseases like anthrax, and Juliet Pulliam of the University of Florida, Gainesville.

Wang was joined by co-authors Drs. Michael Corson, researcher with the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Ouest, Rennes, France; Bill Grant, AgriLife Research ecologist, department of wildlife and fisheries sciences, College Station; and Teel to conduct the work.

Members of The Ecology Consultancy's team of expert ecologists visit local primary schools to deliver wildlife themed, classroom based workshops to educate pupils about how the development is being carried out in a way that protects local wildlife and in conjunction with members of the developer's project team they also provide a broader view of the project's environmental activities.

A paper published in Restoration Ecology by Australian ecologists suggests the reintroduction of dingoes could prove beneficial to native wildlife.

Although urbanization affects wildlife, ecologists know relatively little about its effect on the productivity and survival of breeding birds.

Dr. Krysten Schuler, wildlife disease ecologist with the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine's New York State Animal Health Diagnostic Center (AHDC), explains how the New York State Wildlife Health Program — a partnership between AHDC and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation that examines wildlife mortalities — recently discovered that out of 300 bald eagles tested in New York state, 17 percent had lead levels high enough to cause death from lead poisoning.

The park is very popular with tropical ecologist, eco-tourists, and generally outdoorsy people alike who all share a love the abundance of plant and wildlife.

Ecologists and activists have been vocal about the problem of plastic pollution for years: plastic pollution invades our communities as «litter,» harms wildlife, and 8.8 million tons of it end up in our waterways and oceans every year.

Homogenized data suggested a rapid warming trend but as an ecologist, I knew homogenized temperatures are worthless for wildlife studies because the process eliminates natural temperature variations and alters the actual mean temperatures.

Tambopata National Reserve is a haven for plants and wildlife, not to mention ecologists eager to understand the mysteries of the forest in this corner of the Peruvian Amazon.

As a professional ecologist I advise on aspects of agricultural, forestry and wildlife policies and so future climate change is important.

UK / Israel About Blog Yoav Perlman is a Birder, ecologist, conservationist, wildlife photographer, blogger, works for Israeli Ornithological Center, PhD student at UEA.