Ask Catherine Ressijac what inspired her career and pursuit of a PhD in conservation biology, and she will tell you it started with an undergraduate trip to a conservancy in Zimbabwe. “Like most people who have experienced a safari or a deeply hands-on experience in a savanna ecosystem, it...
Katie studied Ecology and Evolutionary Biology with a focus on marine science in the desert landscape of Tucson while attending the University of Arizona, and currently calls home to the Western Slope in Southwest Colorado. She enjoys all things outdoors alongside her pup and husband, including but...
inBiology,Conservation,Ecology,Tropical Forests Out in the field – Working in the agricultural Mosaic of the Taita Hills And here are some news from my current field work that is part of my Thesis. After spending some quiet, but exiting days in Nairobi (maybe later more about that) I fina...
As someone who has a lot of volunteer-abroad with wildlife experiences, and no biology degree (psychology), I can vouch that this is really true. I started by volunteering with any biology projects with friends, and once I gained experience, I could branch out to other volunteer opportunitie...
Biology Conservation, 222 (2018), pp. 1-13 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar Bernath-Plaisted and Koper, 2016 J. Bernath-Plaisted, N. Koper Physical footprint of oil and gas infrastructure, not anthropogenic noise, reduces nesting success of some grassland songbirds Biology Conser...
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Population genetics involves the examination and modelling of changes in the frequencies of genes and alleles in populations over space and time and is a topical matter in biology, biotechnology, agronomy and forestry undergraduate and graduate courses. However, the intricacies of genetic concepts and ...
Conservation Biology Introduction Observing and quantifying primate behavior in the wild is challenging (Williamson and Feistner2003). Primates live across a vegetation gradient, from dense tropical and montane forests to savanna mosaics (Lehman and Fleagle2006). Some are entirely arboreal and others nea...
Herkert, J. R., Reinking, D. L., Wiedenfeld, D. A., Winter, M., Zimmerman, J. L., et al. (2003). Effects of prairie fragmentation on the nest success of breeding birds in the midcontinental United States.Conservation Biology,17, 587–594. ...
Parsons (Eds.), Scallops: Biology, Ecology, Aquaculture and Fisheries, Developments in Aquaculture and Fisheries Science, 40, Elsevier (2016), pp. 585-609 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar [60] S.A.M. Elliott, A.D. Sabatino, M.R. Heath, W.R. Turrell, D.M. Bailey ...