scholarly journals Suppressive and active protective actions in aquatic wildlife conservation

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Yang Haile ◽  
◽  
Wei Qiwei
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Protective Actions ◽  
Aquatic Wildlife

Melatonin: Protection of the Intervertebral Disc

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Russel J Reiter ◽  
Sergio Rosales-Corral ◽  
Ramaswamy Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Intervertebral Disc ◽  
Molecular Mechanisms ◽  
Intervertebral Discs ◽  
Lumbar Pain ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Work Time ◽  
Protective Actions ◽  
Aging Populations ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Endogenous Melatonin

     Low back pain (lumbar pain) due to injury of or damage to intervertebral discs is common in all societies.  The loss of work time as a result of this problem is massive.  Recent research suggests that melatonin may prevent or counteract intervertebral disc damage. This may be especially relevant in aging populations given that endogenous melatonin, in most individuals, dwindles with increasing age. The publications related to melatonin and its protection of the intervertebral disc are reviewed herein, including definition of some molecular mechanisms that account for melatonin’s protective actions. 

Wildlife Conservation and Restoration Ecology

1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael L. Morrison
Keyword(s):  
Restoration Ecology ◽  
Wildlife Conservation

APPLYING MARKETING TO WILDLIFE CONSERVATION: A NEW APPROACH

2018 ◽  
Vol 2018 ◽  
pp. 548-548
Author(s):  
Patricia David ◽  
◽  
Sharyn Rundle-Thiele ◽  
Pang Bo ◽  
Kathy Knox ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
New Approach

Foreign Investment Dilemma: Real Estate on Jeju Island, Korea Gregory Chu 01/31/19 Volume 61 Photo Essay Moving Cuba Jenny Pettit, Charles O. Collins 12/14/18 Feature Article Igarka Vanishes: The Story of a Rapidly Shrinking Russian Arctic City Kelsey Nyland, Valery Grebenets, Nikolay Shiklomanov, Dmitry Streletskiy 10/26/18 Geo Quiz Quiz Nine: Energy Wesley Reisser 09/03/18 Feature Article Agricultural Social Networks as the future of Karst Science Communication in Phong Nha-Kẻ Bàng National Park, Vietnam Elizabeth Willenbrink, Leslie North, Vu Thi Minh Nguyet 08/06/18 Photo Essay Guyana's Linden to Lethem Road: A Metaphor for Conservation and Development Karen Barton 07/05/18 Photo Essay Schools in South Korea: Where have All the Children Gone? Michael Robinson 06/03/18 Geo Quiz Quiz Eight: The Geography of Food Origins Antoinette WinklerPrins 05/10/18 Feature Article America's Public Lands: What, Where, Why, and What Next? David J. Rutherford 04/22/18 Feature Article Cuba's Precarious Population Pyramid Charles O. Collins 03/19/18 Feature Article Reimagining Zimbabwe’s Cape-to-Cairo Railroad Thomas Wikle 02/21/18 Geo Quiz Quiz Seven: The Built Environment Deborah Popper 02/05/18 Photo Essay Constructing Nationalism Through the Cityscape: The Skopje 2014 Project Wesley Reisser 01/24/18 Feature Article Agave Cultivation, Terracing, and Conservation in Mexico Matthew LaFevor, Jordan Cissell, James Misfeldt 01/17/18 Volume 60 Geo Quiz Quiz Six: Symbols Wesley Reisser 12/22/17 Photo Essay Organic Agriculture, Scale, and the Production of a Region in Northeast, India David Meek 12/08/17 Feature Article The Joola: The Geographical Dimensions of Africa's Greatest Shipwreck Karen Barton 11/02/17 Geo Quiz Quiz Five: Transportation Wesley Reisser 09/30/17 Feature Article Shrinking Space and Expanding Population: Socioeconomic Impacts of Majuli’s Changing Geography Avijit Sahay, Nikhil Roy 09/07/17 Photo Essay A Stroll through Seville W. George Lovell 08/14/17 Geo Quiz Quiz Four: Water Wesley Reisser 06/22/17 Photo Essay Wildlife Conservation in Kenya and Tanzania and Effects on Maasai Communities Daniel Sambu 05/24/17 Feature Article Floods Collide with Sprawl in Louisiana's Amite River Basin Craig Colten 04/24/17 Geo Quiz Quiz Three: The Arctic Wesley Reisser 03/08/17 Feature Article Exploring Arctic Diversity by Hitting the Road: Where Finland, Norway, and Russia Meet Julia Gerlach, Nadir Kinossian 02/06/17 Photo Essay Urban Agriculture in Helsinki, Finland Sophia E. Hagolani-Albov 01/03/17 Volume 59 Feature Article Living and Spirtual Worlds of Mali's Dogon People Thomas Wikle 10/27/16 Photo Essay Postcards from Oaxaca's Past and Present Scott Brady 10/27/16 Geo Quiz Quiz Two: Sustainability and Conservation Wesley Reisser 10/27/16 Feature Article From Ranching to Fishing – the Cultural Landscape of the Northern Pacific Coast of Baja California, Mexico Antoinette WinklerPrins, Pablo Alvarez, Gerardo Bocco, Ileana Espejel 07/06/16 Photo Essay Many Destinations, One Place Called Home: Migration and Livelihood for Rural Bolivians Marie Price 07/06/16 Geo Quiz Quiz One: Explorers Wesley Reisser 07/06/16 Foreign Investment Dilemma: Real Estate on Jeju Island, Korea

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gregory H. Chu
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
Jeju Island ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Feature Article ◽  
Photo Essay

Detection, Identification and Structural Elucidation of Flavonoids using Liquid Chromatography Coupled to Mass Spectrometry

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 104-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Kamil Wojtanowski ◽  
Tomasz Mroczek
Keyword(s):  
Mass Spectrometry ◽  
Central Nervous System ◽  
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance ◽  
Liquid Chromatography ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Short Review ◽  
Structural Elucidation ◽  
High Throughput Analysis ◽  
Protective Actions ◽  
The Central Nervous System

Flavonoids are one of the most common secondary metabolites occurring in plants. Their activity in the Central Nervous System (CNS) including sedative, anxiolytic, anti-convulsive, anti-depressant and neuro-protective actions is well known and documented. The most popular methods for detection, identification and structural elucidation of flavonoids are these based on Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and mass spectrometry (MS). NMR allows rapid, high throughput analysis of crude extracts and also gives stereochemical details about identified substances. However, these methods are expensive and less sensitive than MS-based techniques. Combining High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) with MS detection gives the most powerful tool for analysis of flavonoids occurring in plants. There is a lot of different approaches to use LC/MS based techniques for identification of flavonoids and this short review shows the most important.

scholarly journals Anthropomorphic Strategies Promote Wildlife Conservation through Empathy: The Moderation Role of the Public Epidemic Situation

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (7) ◽  
pp. 3565
Author(s):  
Dan Yue ◽  
Zepeng Tong ◽  
Jianchi Tian ◽  
Yang Li ◽  
Linxiu Zhang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Behavioral Intention ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Public Awareness ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Wildlife Trade ◽  
Illegal Wildlife Trade ◽  
The Impact

The global illegal wildlife trade directly threatens biodiversity and leads to disease outbreaks and epidemics. In order to avoid the loss of endangered species and ensure public health security, it is necessary to intervene in illegal wildlife trade and promote public awareness of the need for wildlife conservation. Anthropomorphism is a basic and common psychological process in humans that plays a crucial role in determining how a person interacts with other non-human agents. Previous research indicates that anthropomorphizing nature entities through metaphors could increase individual behavioral intention of wildlife conservation. However, relatively little is known about the mechanism by which anthropomorphism influences behavioral intention and whether social context affects the effect of anthropomorphism. This research investigated the impact of negative emotions associated with a pandemic situation on the effectiveness of anthropomorphic strategies for wildlife conservation across two experimental studies. Experiment 1 recruited 245 college students online and asked them to read a combination of texts and pictures as anthropomorphic materials. The results indicated that anthropomorphic materials could increase participants’ empathy and decrease their wildlife product consumption intention. Experiment 2 recruited 140 college students online and they were required to read the same materials as experiment 1 after watching a video related to epidemics. The results showed that the effect of wildlife anthropomorphization vanished if participants’ negative emotion was aroused by the video. The present research provides experimental evidence that anthropomorphic strategies would be useful for boosting public support for wildlife conservation. However, policymakers and conservation organizations must be careful about the negative effects of the pandemic context, as the negative emotions produced by it seems to weaken the effectiveness of anthropomorphic strategies.

scholarly journals Dispersal and Land Cover Contribute to Pseudorabies Virus Exposure in Invasive Wild Pigs

EcoHealth ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Felipe A. Hernández ◽  
Amanda N. Carr ◽  
Michael P. Milleson ◽  
Hunter R. Merrill ◽  
Michael L. Avery ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Land Cover ◽  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Pseudorabies Virus ◽  
Spatial Scales ◽  
Information Criterion ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Wild Pigs ◽  
Bacterial Agent ◽  
Open Canopy

AbstractWe investigated the landscape epidemiology of a globally distributed mammal, the wild pig (Sus scrofa), in Florida (U.S.), where it is considered an invasive species and reservoir to pathogens that impact the health of people, domestic animals, and wildlife. Specifically, we tested the hypothesis that two commonly cited factors in disease transmission, connectivity among populations and abundant resources, would increase the likelihood of exposure to both pseudorabies virus (PrV) and Brucella spp. (bacterial agent of brucellosis) in wild pigs across the Kissimmee Valley of Florida. Using DNA from 348 wild pigs and sera from 320 individuals at 24 sites, we employed population genetic techniques to infer individual dispersal, and an Akaike information criterion framework to compare candidate logistic regression models that incorporated both dispersal and land cover composition. Our findings suggested that recent dispersal conferred higher odds of exposure to PrV, but not Brucella spp., among wild pigs throughout the Kissimmee Valley region. Odds of exposure also increased in association with agriculture and open canopy pine, prairie, and scrub habitats, likely because of highly localized resources within those land cover types. Because the effect of open canopy on PrV exposure reversed when agricultural cover was available, we suggest that small-scale resource distribution may be more important than overall resource abundance. Our results underscore the importance of studying and managing disease dynamics through multiple processes and spatial scales, particularly for non-native pathogens that threaten wildlife conservation, economy, and public health.

scholarly journals Social-ecological analysis of timely rice planting in Eastern India

2021 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anton Urfels ◽  
Andrew J. McDonald ◽  
Gerardo van Halsema ◽  
Paul C. Struik ◽  
Pankaj Kumar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Development ◽  
Wildlife Conservation ◽  
Geographic Region ◽  
Critical Threshold ◽  
Enabling Factors ◽  
Gangetic Plains ◽  
Land Type ◽  
Groundwater Availability ◽  
Agricultural Input ◽  
First Time

AbstractTimely crop planting is a foundation for climate-resilient rice-wheat systems of the Eastern Gangetic Plains—a global food insecurity and poverty hotspot. We hypothesize that the capacity of individual farmers to plant on time varies considerably, shaped by multifaceted enabling factors and constraints that are poorly understood. To address this knowledge gap, two complementary datasets were used to characterize drivers and decision processes that govern the timing of rice planting in this region. The first dataset was a large agricultural management survey (rice-wheat: n = 15,245; of which rice: n = 7597) from a broad geographic region that was analyzed by machine learning methods. The second dataset was a discussion-based survey (n = 112) from a more limited geography that we analyzed with graph theory tools to elicit nuanced information on planting decisions. By combining insights from these methods, we show for the first time that differences in rice planting times are primarily shaped by ecosystem and climate factors while social factors play a prominent secondary role. Monsoon onset, surface and groundwater availability, and land type determine village-scale mean planting times whereas, for resource-constrained farmers who tend to plant later ceteris paribus, planting is further influenced by access to farm machinery, seed, fertilizer, and labor. Also, a critical threshold for economically efficient pumping appears at a groundwater depth of around 4.5 m; below this depth, farmers do not irrigate and delay planting. Without collective action to spread risk through synchronous timely planting, ecosystem factors such as threats posed by pests and wild animals may further deter early planting by individual farmers. Accordingly, we propose a three-pronged strategy that combines targeted strengthening of agricultural input chains, agroadvisory development, and coordinated rice planting and wildlife conservation to support climate-resilient agricultural development in the Eastern Gangetic Plains.

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