conservation biology
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To ease the deadly traffic jams, George, the director of whale conservation biology at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif., and other researchers are deploying whale-breath detectors powered by artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Given their small numbers, killing a pack of 10 animals would harm the population's genetic diversity, said Mathew Crowther, professor of quantitative conservation biology at the University of Sydney.
From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026
One of the premises of conservation biology is that all species have value.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025
The question of how and why genetic variation arises and is maintained over long periods of time is of key importance to evolutionary biology, population genetics and conservation biology.
From Science Daily • Nov. 17, 2023
“I made this error of doing economics and policy, instead of what I was really interested in, which was the animals. I could have done conservation biology, but I was too intimidated by the ‘ology.’”
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022
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