Sentences with phrase «larger habitats not»

Larger habitats not only give pets more room, they also provide space to include different amenities and accessories, which are becoming popular with the owners of these pets.

Not exact matches

We have not seen any large - scale research that shows one approach to be clearly superior to another, however, and we suspect that growers in different regions and habitats have good options for cultivation that are most suitable to those regions and habits.

California vineyards are designed with the larger ecosystem in mind, preserving vernal pools, oak woodlands, and other wildlife habitats and creating nest boxes for owls, raptors and other beneficial birds.

While many plants suffered some damage, the larger concern is the long - term effect of not having a roof above the flora so the habitats can be controlled.

Like other habitat specialists, Sungazers appear to be restricted to this area not only because of physical barriers such as large rivers and mountains, but also because of the unique climactic niche in this region.

But now Rebekah Dawson from the University of Western Australia in Perth has documented the behaviour in both large and medium sized wallabies, and shown the behaviour is driven not just by size, but rather the animal's habitat and overall body plan.

With up to 10m tides, the Kimberley region has the largest tropical tides in the world, creating naturally extreme and highly dynamic coastal habitats that corals from more typical reefs could not survive.

«Larger expanses of habitat means that more chickens will live and nest there, allowing for better odds that some nests will be successful.»

Many of these survivors were early amniotes, such as early reptiles, whose generally larger size relative to early amphibians allowed them to travel longer distances, and their ability to lay eggs meant they were not confined to watery habitats.

In particular the team found that large, intensive agricultural areas are actually well suited for the güiña and should not be dismissed as poor quality habitat.

The model shows that if animals are still doing what they did before habitat damage caused by decades of agricultural intensification, then large, early - nesting species such as great tits will be fine, but late - nesting species such as tree sparrows will decline.

It's one of the largest intact forest ecosystems left on Earth; it's actually only three or four places that have these large unfragmented habitats left and because of that it holds some of the largest populations of mammals and birds — some of the largest populations of wolves, for example, in, caribou as well as, we estimate one to three billion birds that nest there every year and that's some of the birds that are actually stopping off at Central Park.

Let me just say that the larger the landscape scale on which you examine diversity, the more likely you are to get very different habitats in your sample — hills and ravines and bottom lands and river courses — and the neutral theory at present doesn't encompass any heterogeneity of that sort.

«Our results indicate that the large primates only lived in the forest and obtained their food from this habitat,» explains Bocherens, and he adds, «Gigantopithecus was an exclusive vegetarian, but it did not specialize on bamboo.»

The larger issue is that I have to live somewhere and my family needs a roof over their head and I will not risk that for any «gamble» on the hopes of a big investment lucky strike or giving me a couple percent more than the interest on the mortgage or the risk to my family's habitat.

Last, but not least, larger habitats are usually more expensive than smaller ones, and some customers don't want to spend the extra money.

Larger cages can be easily created with household materials to create a wonderful habitat since guinea pigs are not escape artists like the other rodents mentioned here.

In their natural habitats, male birds will use a large stick to «drum» against a hollow tree before choosing where to build a nest.

When placing rabbits into permanent, adoptive homes, Rabbit Advocates encourages more beneficial care, including but not limited to much larger habitats.

That's not how it's explained on the BirdLife International website, where the «large and statistically significant decrease over the last 40 years in North America» is attributed to «widespread habitat fragmentation» and extensive hunting («over 20,000,000 individuals were recently being killed annually by hunters in the USA»).

They can not live in cages or habitats made for larger species of hamsters or they will slip between the mesh or bars and escape.

Value Conscious The economic crisis has slowed the trend toward larger habitats, but it hasn't discouraged it altogether.

A small pet habitat should not only be large enough to provide space for toys to encourage play and exercise, but also include some open space for frolicking.

But most pet birds, especially the medium to large parrots, are not too many generations away from their wild kin, so it makes sense to keep them in a place that closely resembles their wild habitats.

Larger habitats are usually more expensive, and some customers don't want to spend the extra money.

Conservation Status The most recent edition of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species listed the Channel Islands slender salamander as of Least Concern since, although its Extent of Occurrence is much less than 5,000 per square kilometer, it is common and occurs in an area of extensive, suitable habitat which appears not to be under threat, it has a presumed large population, and it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

Conservation Status According to the IUCN, (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources), this species is listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, presumed large population, tolerance of a broad range of habitats, occurrence in a number of protected areas, and because it does not appear to be under threat and is unlikely to be declining at nearly the rate required to qualify for listing in a threatened category.

For instance, an invasive brown alga called Sargassum horneri now dominates large swaths of kelp forest habitat at the islands, and while it's impacts are not yet fully understood, the kelp forests of the Channel Islands are being substantially altered.

«Without large - scale restoration of habitat quality the fishery decline will continue even in the well - managed and funded MPAs,» said Tom, adding, «It just does not work.»

Sea ice is critical for polar marine ecosystems in at least two important ways: (1) it provides a habitat for photosynthetic algae and nursery ground for invertebrates and fish during times when the water column does not support phytoplankton growth; and (2) as the ice melts, releasing organisms into the surface water [3], a shallow mixed layer forms which fosters large ice - edge blooms important to the overall productivity of polar seas.

Destroying aquatic and marine vegetative cover not only releases larges stores of carbon dioxide (CO2) but decimates the habitat provisions for multiple species across the terrestrial and aquatic interface.

And fires cause other environmental concerns such as the release of large amounts of ash, destruction of topsoil and damage to wildlife and habitat — not to mention loss of human life and damage to people's homes.

Palm oil production, not global warming, in Indonesia and Malaysia is going to make large mammals extinct The amount of loss of habitat is asonishing

Putra realized that in addition to anti-poaching efforts, his work could not be complete without addressing a much larger threat rapidly outpacing conservation: habitat destruction from illegal palm oil plantations.