Zoologists and Wildlife Biologists

Life, Physical, and Social Science Occupations · Job Skills & Competencies · SOC 19-1023 · 227 skills

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Develop, or make recommendations on, management systems and plans for wildlife populations and habitat, consulting with stakeholders and the public at large to explore options.
Inventory or estimate plant and wildlife populations.
Inform and respond to public regarding wildlife and conservation issues, such as plant identification, hunting ordinances, and nuisance wildlife.

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A bounded sample of popular skills mapped to this occupation, with at most one Skill from each GitHub repository. The complete mapped list follows.

biodiversity-data-guide

brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

Biodiversity data access, species occurrence, and ecological tools

foraging-wild-edibles

LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills

Safe identification and harvesting of common wild edible plants. Use when someone wants to supplement food supply with wild plants, learn plant identification skills, or understand what's safe vs dangerous in their local environment.

tooluniverse-ecology-biodiversity

mims-harvard/ToolUniverse

Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation biology research — species identification (GBIF, NCBI Taxonomy), invasive species impact, ecosystem dynamics, conservation status (IUCN), niche ecology. Use for biodiversity questions, species comparison, invasion biology, conservation prioritization, and ecology-related literature search.

birdwatching-log

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Get started birding from where you are — what you're likely to see, how to tell confusing species apart, and a simple life-list to track sightings. Use when asked to start birdwatching, what bird did I see, help me identify a bird, or set up a birding log. Produces a likely-species list for your area and season, ID prompts (the field marks and sounds that separate look-alikes), a beginner gear-and-timing note, and a lightweight life-list format — pointing you to a live ID app to confirm any specific sighting.

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biodiversity-data-guide

brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

Biodiversity data access, species occurrence, and ecological tools

brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

Global biodiversity data API for species occurrences and datasets

inaturalist-api

brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

Citizen science platform API for biodiversity observations

species-distribution-guide

brycewang-stanford/Auto-Empirical-Research-Skills

Species distribution modeling with MaxEnt, SDM methods, and GBIF data

foraging-wild-edibles

LeoYeAI/openclaw-master-skills

Safe identification and harvesting of common wild edible plants. Use when someone wants to supplement food supply with wild plants, learn plant identification skills, or understand what's safe vs dangerous in their local environment.

tooluniverse-ecology-biodiversity

mims-harvard/ToolUniverse

Ecology, biodiversity, and conservation biology research — species identification (GBIF, NCBI Taxonomy), invasive species impact, ecosystem dynamics, conservation status (IUCN), niche ecology. Use for biodiversity questions, species comparison, invasion biology, conservation prioritization, and ecology-related literature search.

birdwatching-log

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Get started birding from where you are — what you're likely to see, how to tell confusing species apart, and a simple life-list to track sightings. Use when asked to start birdwatching, what bird did I see, help me identify a bird, or set up a birding log. Produces a likely-species list for your area and season, ID prompts (the field marks and sounds that separate look-alikes), a beginner gear-and-timing note, and a lightweight life-list format — pointing you to a live ID app to confirm any specific sighting.

birdwatching-log

mohitagw15856/pm-claude-skills

Get started birding from where you are — what you're likely to see, how to tell confusing species apart, and a simple life-list to track sightings. Use when asked to start birdwatching, what bird did I see, help me identify a bird, or set up a birding log. Produces a likely-species list for your area and season, ID prompts (the field marks and sounds that separate look-alikes), a beginner gear-and-timing note, and a lightweight life-list format — pointing you to a live ID app to confirm any specific sighting.

global-change-biology

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Use when targeting Global Change Biology or deciding whether a biology/ecology manuscript fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, the global-change-driver framing and biological-evidence bar, scale and mechanism expectations, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.

conbio-study-design

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Use when defending the study design of a Conservation Biology manuscript — ecological sampling and inference (detection, spatial structure, pseudoreplication), comparative/observational and quasi-experimental designs (BACI), modeling and synthesis design, and human-dimensions methods. The journal judges each appropriate method on its own terms. Strengthens the design; it does not write code.

conbio-topic-selection

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Use when deciding whether a project fits Conservation Biology and which article type to target. Conservation Biology is the Society for Conservation Biology's flagship journal, so the test is novelty plus transferable, direct relevance to conserving biological diversity, not local description alone. Helps frame the question; it does not collect data.

functional-ecology

brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills

Use when targeting Functional Ecology (Funct Ecol) or deciding whether a mechanistic study linking organism function to ecology fits this venue. Encodes the journal's fit, framing, method-and-evidence bar, house style, official-submission re-check, and desk-reject heuristics.