The Finch, Pruyn lands, while not the largest parcels to change hands, are in some ways among the most important, said Michelle L. Brown, conservation scientist for the conservancy, because they filled in many missing pieces of one of the largest northern forests left in the world.
"It doesn't seem to be spreading rapidly at the moment, but it could," said Marilyn Jordan, a conservation scientist for the Nature Conservancy on Long Island.
"It's what we hoped for: no species have been eliminated," said Marilyn Jordan, a conservation scientist for the Nature Conservancy and one of many scientists and researchers who have studied the revival of plant and animal life after the fire.
Marilyn J. Jordan, a senior conservation scientist for the Nature Conservancy on Long Island, said it favored a prohibition in New York on sales of the Norway maple, which she called "an ecological weed".
More than half the introduced species that take hold are having deleterious effects, said Jennifer Molnar, a conservation scientist at the Nature Conservancy who led that study, which was published in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.
Dr Daniel Hayhow is a conservation scientist for the RSPB, working to help conserve different bird species.
Dr Bolton, principal conservation scientist at the RSPB, helped develop the devices.
"Scientists are people too," says Morgan Trimble, a conservation scientist at the University of Pretoria in South Africa, who carried out the study.
Dr Mark Eaton, RSPB conservation scientist, said many contributors to the report were shocked at how poorly familiar species were faring.
The team, including Tate conservation scientist Bronwyn Ormsby, spent nine months figuring out what solvents and cleaning methods to use on the 1958 canvas.
She sent a few tiny samples off to Narayan Khandekar, a conservation scientist, and other collaborators at the Harvard Art Museums.
