Jaka Kranjc, a spokesman for Slovenia's Ecologists Without Borders said that the symbol of waste left by past generations had a special meaning in the region.
The team suggests that even ecologists without computer programming savvy can now set up more sophisticated surveillance for species threatened by climate change and habitat loss.
However, when word spread through the department that the federal register was open, all of us filled out the paperwork to have our names put on the federal civil service register as plant physiologists and plant ecologists, without knowing what that accomplished.
That's the flip side of the sharing impulse — while happy to point out a roost to a neophyte, Winn gloats when a card-carrying "Ecologist" can't find it without her help.
"They've created [a] stickman to be knocked down," says Clayton Marlow, a grassland ecologist at Montana State University, Bozeman, "without accomplishing anything for either the ecosystem or the poor".
But tests of lion blood samples collected before 1994 showed that CDV infections had occurred before without causing deaths, says ecologist Craig Packer of the University of Minnesota, St . Paul
Ecologists fear that without a decent showing in the polls, the environment could drop to the bottom of the agenda for other candidates.
Ecologists predict that, without sustained conservation efforts, elephants will become extinct in the wild within a century.
Janusz Korbel, a local ecologist, says the forest thrived for millennia without human interference, and that this rare spot simply needs to be left to alone.
Mature trees can survive two or three years of drought without serious damage, said Stuart Findlay, an aquatic ecologist at the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y.
