Sentences with phrase «island ecosystems long»
During 2015 Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Project (SMS) and Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (PIE LTER) began involvement via our Schoolyard K - 12 education program with the Michigan State University NSF sponsored Data Nuggets activity.
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Eben Paxton of the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and colleagues looked at population trends for seven species of native forest birds living on Kauai's Alakai Plateau, the eroded crater of a long - extinct volcano.
In the event your de-extincted animal doesn't work out and, say, wreaks havoc in your local ecosystem, wiping out long - established flora and fauna, having the extended warranty covers all costs associated with the capture and transport of the animal to the Island of Misfit Toys, formerly known as Isla Nublar, off the coast of Costa Rica.
Broll, G., C. Tarnocai, and J. Gould, 2003: Long - term high Arctic ecosystem monitoring in Quttinirpaaq National Park, Ellesmere Island, Canada.
Interests: Role of animals in ecosystems, stable isotopes and food webs; conducts research on Brazilian streams and at Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) sites at Plum Island (MA) and the Arctic.
Program data will contribute to a distributed effort to generate a «big picture» of Long Island's many ecosystems and diverse living things.
In this time of global change, monitoring island foxes and their island ecosystem is vital to the species» long - term survival.
Introduced by Spanish conquistadors during Aruba's colonial period, goats and donkeys have disrupted the island's ecosystem for so long that biologists can only guess what the landscape would look like without them.
The point is that human landscape alteration has been going on for a long time, and bringing fire clearing to an island ecosystem not adapted to fire had terrible consequences.
Sea - level rise threatens the long - term viability of island communities by exacerbating the impacts of coastal storms, flooding infrastructure and ecosystems, and contaminating freshwater supplies with seawater.
M. Davis et al., «New England — Acadian Forests,» in Taylor H. Ricketts et al., eds., Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999); David R. Foster, «Harvard Forest: Addressing Major Issues in Policy Debates and in the Understanding of Ecosystem Process and Pattern,» LTER Network News: The Newsletter of the Long Term Ecological Network, spring / summer 1996; U.S. Forest Service, «2006 Forest Health Highlights,» various state sheets, at fhm.fs.fed.us, viewed 2 August 2007.
Scientists also expect sea - level rise to alter coastal ecosystems such as the salt marshes and estuaries of Long Island, threatening feeding grounds for migrating waterfowl and nursery habitat for commercial fish.19
The Long Beach area near Pacific Rim National Park is a pristine coastline on Vancouver Island's west coast and one of the world's last remaining unspoiled wilderness areas and ecosystems.