Sentences with phrase «wildlife studies because»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Oil spills kill a lot of wildlife quickly, but their long - term effects are hard to establish because to compare the situation before and after a disaster, a study would need to have been already up and running before the disaster occurred.

The new study calls the Trap - Neuter - Return policy «potentially harmful to wildlife populations» because it leaves so many predators in the wild.

Wildlife biologists seem to discount those studies because most of them were performed by scientists who are not wildlife biologists.

«Because western society's orientations toward wildlife is becoming more moralistic and less utilitarian,» explain the authors of a study recently published online in PLoS ONE, «conservation biologists must develop innovative and collaborative ways to address the threats posed by feral cats rather than assuming wholesale removal of feral cats through euthanasia is a universally viable solution.»

So they presume it's happening because of wildlife studies.

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 discovery has been heralded as astonishing both because birdwatchers have studied the wildlife sanctuary for more than a century and because the Bugun liocichla species has no known relatives in the area.