Search

Your search keyword '"PARSONS, E. C. M."' showing total 205 results
Start Over Author "PARSONS, E. C. M."
205 results on '"PARSONS, E. C. M."'

4. Lower Public Concern for Biodiversity than for Wilderness, Natural Places, Charismatic Megafauna and/or Habitats

Author

Shah, Alexandra and Parsons, E. C. M.

Abstract

The UN declared 2010 the "International Year of Biodiversity" (IYB). A survey was undertaken at the end of this year in the Washington D.C. metro area (n = 180). Thirty-eight point nine percent of the participants had not heard of the term "biodiversity". Only 36.7% could correctly define "biodiversity". Almost no one had heard of the IYB (99.9%). Respondents understood the importance of maintaining biodiversity for food security (82%), new pharmaceuticals (84%), and agriculture (83%). Stated concern for "rainforest", "wilderness areas", "natural places" was higher than that for "biodiversity". The IYB seems to have had limited impact on public awareness in Washington D.C.

Published
2019
Full Text
View/download PDF

10. Seventy-One Important Questions for the Conservation of Marine Biodiversity

Author

PARSONS, E. C. M., FAVARO, BRETT, AGUIRRE, A. ALONSO, BAUER, AMY L., BLIGHT, LOUISE K., CIGLIANO, JOHN A., COLEMAN, MELINDA A., CÔTÉ, ISABELLE M., DRAHEIM, MEGAN, FLETCHER, STEPHEN, FOLEY, MELISSA M., JEFFERSON, REBECCA, JONES, MIRANDA C., KELAHER, BRENDAN P., LUNDQUIST, CAROLYN J., MCCARTHY, JULIE-BETH, NELSON, ANNE, PATTERSON, KATHERYN, WALSH, LESLIE, WRIGHT, ANDREW J., and SUTHERLAND, WILLIAM J.

Published
2014

15. One Hundred Questions of Importance to the Conservation of Global Biological Diversity

Author

Sutherland, W. J., Adams, W. M., Aronson, R. B., Aveling, R., Blackburn, T. M., Broad, S., Ceballos, G., Côté, I. M., Cowling, R. M., Fonseca, G. A. B. Da, Dinerstein, E., Ferraro, P. J., Fleishman, E., Gascon, C., Hunter, M., Hutton, J., Kareiva, P., Kuria, A., MacDonald, D. W., MacKinnon, K., Madgwick, F. J., Mascia, M. B., McNeely, J., Milner-Gulland, E. J., Moon, S., Morley, C. G., Nelson, S., Osborn, D., Pai, M., Parsons, E. C. M., Peck, L. S., Possingham, H., Prior, S. V., Pullin, A. S., Rands, M. R. W., Ranganathan, J., Redford, K. H., Rodriguez, J. P., Seymour, F., Sobel, J., Sodhi, N. S., Stott, A., Vance-Borland, K., and Watkinson, A. R.

Published
2009
Full Text
View/download PDF

16. Site fidelity, population identity and demographic characteristics of humpback whales in the New York Bight apex

Author

Brown, D. M., primary, Robbins, J., additional, Sieswerda, P. L., additional, Ackerman, C., additional, Aschettino, J. M., additional, Barco, S., additional, Boye, T., additional, DiGiovanni, R. A., additional, Durham, K., additional, Engelhaupt, A., additional, Hill, A., additional, Howes, L., additional, Johnson, K. F., additional, Jones, L., additional, King, C. D., additional, Kopelman, A. H., additional, Laurino, M., additional, Lonergan, S., additional, Mallette, S. D., additional, Pepe, M., additional, Ramp, C., additional, Rayfield, K., additional, Rekdahl, M., additional, Rosenbaum, H. C., additional, Schoelkopf, R., additional, Schulte, D., additional, Sears, R., additional, Stepanuk, J. E. F., additional, Tackaberry, J. E., additional, Weinrich, M., additional, Parsons, E. C. M., additional, and Wiedenmann, J., additional

Published
2022
Full Text
View/download PDF

20. The Ocean Decade Research Program on the Maritime Acoustic Environment (OD-MAE).

Author

Spence, Heather R., Becker, Kyle M., and Parsons, E. C. M.

Subjects
SCIENTIFIC knowledge, OCEAN, ACQUISITION of data, HARBORS
Abstract

Sound is a persistent yet dynamic component of the maritime environment. Understanding sound in the ocean is critical to support users of, and life within, the ocean. The United Nations Ocean Decade Research Program on the Maritime Acoustic Environment will establish a comprehensive program aimed at measuring and objectively characterizing underwater acoustic environments at regional to global scales. The program is inclusive of physical, biological, and anthropogenic components. We aim to foster new scientific knowledge, technologies, approaches to data collection, and dissemination that facilitate the use of sound for analyzing, evaluating, and predicting ocean-life systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
Full Text
View/download PDF

23. Recent Advances in Whale-watching Research: 2019–2020.

Author

Gray, Chelsea, Schuler, Alicia R., and Parsons, E. C. M.

Subjects
WHALE watching, BIOLOGICAL monitoring, CETACEA
Abstract

Whale-watching research encompasses a wide variety of disciplines and fields of study, from monitoring the biological impacts of whale-watching activities on cetaceans and assessments of the effectiveness of whale-watching management and regulations, to the sociological and economic aspects of whale watching. This article is the latest in a series of annual digests, which describes the variety and findings of whale-watching studies published over the past year, from June 2019 to May 2020. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
Full Text
View/download PDF

30. impact of language in conflicts over urban coyotes.

Author

Draheim, Megan M, Crate, Susan A, Parsons, E C M, and Rockwood, Larry L

Subjects
COYOTE, WILDLIFE management, COEXISTENCE of species
Abstract

Wildlife managers and others charged with resolving human-coyote conflict in urban and suburban areas cannot focus solely on ecology and coyote behavior. The perceptions of the people living in the affected communities play a significant role in the resolution of human-coyote conflict. In this study, we explore how residents of two communities in suburban Denver, CO, USA, mentally processed, made sense of, and acted upon human–coyote interactions in the face of conflict. By conducting interviews and using qualitative content analysis to explore existing documents, we examined how the use of language reflected and exacerbated the conflict over coyote management. Themes of violence, crime and war ran throughout our data. Anger and accusations of extremism were prevalent. Closely tied to the violent language and imagery used was a discussion of tolerance and intolerance, taking what is generally human-centric language and using it with wildlife. In addition, labeling coyotes as not belonging in an area (although they are a native species) further increased the urge to protect family and pets from the perception of the threat against 'the other', sometimes expressed in inflammatory language. Political and other messaging can either enhance or reduce a sense of threat, and we found that the language used in this debate enhanced the perceived threat of both coyotes and policy opponents. Finding ways to defuse this language could be a step toward a greater understanding of how to live with local wildlife in a way that minimizes harm to people and to the animals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2021
Full Text
View/download PDF

50. The Negative Impacts of Whale-Watching

Author

Parsons, E. C. M.

Subjects
Article Subject
Abstract

Whale watching is an international industry worth more than US$2 billion globally and is currently the greatest economic activity reliant upon cetaceans. However, there is concern that whale watching is detrimental to the target species. Numerous studies have shown that cetaceans exhibit behavioral changes in response to whale-watching boat traffic. Some of these behavioral changes involve inhibiting biologically important behaviors such as feeding and resting. There is convincing evidence for some species that these can translate into population-level effects such as reduced reproductive rates. Whale watching can also cause direct mortality through collisions between vessels and animals. The introduction of guidelines or regulations for whale watching has been the most common method of trying to mitigate the impacts of boat-based whale watching. However, there is great variety in the comprehensiveness of guidelines, and even if operators have guidelines, compliance with them can be poor. Compliance might be improved if guidelines have legal under-pinnings, with monitoring and enforcement or via pressure to comply by other operators and whale-watching tourists. Simple guidelines may be more easily complied with that ones requiring specialist knowledge. Likewise undertaking simple measures, such as establishing temporal or spatial “refuges” protecting biologically important areas (e.g., feeding grounds) where whale-watching activity is prohibited, could be an appropriate mitigation strategy.

Published
2012
Full Text
View/download PDF

Catalog

Books, media, physical & digital resources
See catalog results