Sentence examples for conservation acting from inspiring English sources

Putatively old-forest dependent fungi have acquired a distinct position in biodiversity conservation, acting both as management targets and indicators for other nature values in the forest.

With regard to in silico evidence, three different features were considered important: (a) missense or splice-site prediction software (acting on amino acid level), (b) evolutionary conservation (acting on nucleotide level), and (c) population frequencies (Supp. Fig. S2).

He worked in a variety of capacities during 15 years with The Nature Conservancy including Vice President and Director of Ecosystem Conservation, Acting Director of Science, and Chair of the Steering Committee for the Last Great Places Campaign.

It is clear that the situation of the various conservation players acting in 'silos' is an insufficient counter-balance against the powers that deplete the natural resources.

ABA promotes plant water conservation by acting on specialized cells in the leaf epidermis, guard cells, which border and regulate the apertures of stomatal pores through which transpirational water loss occurs.

They explained a pragmatic reluctance about investing finite conservation resources in acting as matchmaker for the ageing Eddy, a bird nobody was even sure remained fertile, combined with the difficulties in winning over reluctant stakeholders in the form of sheep farmers and gamekeepers wary of these great birds.

This suggests strong conservation of function acting on most of the gene, but adaptive evolution acting on virtually the entire mucin domain-coding region, which may be linked to the putative role of Otogelin in organization of the TM or potentially a role in the vestibule (Simmler et al. 2000).

fMFEsite/MFEperfect, the calculation based on the method in Tafer et al [ 50] Similar to the analysis of the conservation of lincRNAs as miRNA targets, a conservation analysis of lincRNAs acting as miRNA decoys was also performed between the lincRNA regions that paired with miRNAs.

Former Cook MP David Kempton is the solicitor acting for grazier Scott Harris, whose permit to clear his Kingvale property hangs in limbo while the environment department seeks to assess it for impacts under the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.

Joaquín Cerdá Sureda, the head of the station's Department of Ethology and Biodiversity Conservation, has been named acting director.

Our findings demonstrate that individual remnant trees contribute to landscape-level conservation of bird diversity, acting as keystone habitat structures by providing critical resources for species that could not persist in otherwise treeless agricultural fields.