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conservation biology

n.
The branch of biology that deals with the effects of humans on the environment and with the conservation of biological diversity.
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The results of the study are published in Conservation Biology.
She received a Bachelor of Science degree specializing in Wildlife, Fisheries, and Conservation Biology from the University of California at Davis and served for many years as an environmental consultant on the West Coast.
The book explores the environmental roots of these new agrarians and their adoption of ideas and methods from agroecology, conservation biology, and other alternatives to industrial agriculture.
The study was led by Samuel Wasser, a director of the University of Washington Center for Conservation Biology.
Bangor graduate Dr Philip Trathan heads Conservation Biology at the British Antarctic Survey (BAS).
Pierre Comizzoli, a reproductive physiologist for the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute in Front Royal, Virginia, which works with Cornell.
Vultures: Their Evolution, Ecology and Conservation is a college-level, scholarly text examining the latest scientific findings on the ecology, natural history and conservation biology of both New and Old World Vultures, and covers both their historic presence around the world and the history of extinct species.
The population of the yellow-breasted bunting has plunged by 90 per cent since 1980, all but disappearing from eastern Europe, Japan and large parts of Russia, said the study, published in the Conservation Biology journal.
27th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY (ICCB) AND THE 4th EUROPEAN CONGRESS FOR CONSERVATION BIOLOGY (ECCB).
But the expectant crowd knew that Peter Kareiva, the chief scientist for The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and Michael Soule, a founding father of conservation biology, had become unlikely adversaries in the past few years.
biologist, best known for his work in promoting the idea of conservation biology. He earned a Ph.D.
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