The Clinton administration's rules that bar road building on about 60 million acres are the most important conservation effort since Theodore Roosevelt and Congress established the Forest Service.
"This is important for conservation efforts because if these frogs do have some type of resistance to the disease which is heritable, then the offspring may inherit that," Dawson said.
As human populations continue to expand and climate change impacts on wildlife intensify, knowledge of animal behavior will become increasingly important in conservation efforts.
Understanding how organisms interact with their environments is increasingly important for conservation efforts in many species, especially in light of highly anticipated climate changes.
Understanding this potential, and the mechanisms behind such evolution of salt tolerance, is critically important for conservation efforts (Carroll et al. 2007), especially in this era of unprecedented declines in amphibian populations worldwide (Stuart et al. 2004; Mendelson et al. 2006).
Models like these will become increasingly important to conservation efforts in the future, as James explains: "Analyses and visualization using 3D MKDEs can be more informative and yield greater ecological insights than traditional 2D home range estimators in representing the space use of animals that have a substantive vertical component.
The researchers say their study shows that parks should remain an important part of conservation efforts and that rather than being abandoned, they should receive increased support.
The UK-based Galápagos Conservation Trust (savegala pagos.org), which campaigns to raise awareness about the region, says that "the right kind of tourism can help and has become an important contribution towards conservation efforts in Galápagos".
These last two patterns are important when considering conservation efforts of biodiversity in city ponds.
The new classification is important for global conservation efforts, as scientists consider a quarter of the newly recognized species threatened.
