Sentences with phrase «over a thousand species»

There are an enormous variety of things to see and do in Uganda including trekking the rare Mountain Gorillas and chimpanzees, bird watching (Uganda boasts over a thousand species of birds including 27 Rift Valley Endemics and the Shoebill Stork), mountain climbing and hiking up the Rwenzoris (Mountains of the Moon).

All in all, over a thousand species — many of them on the endangered list — call Tubbataha reef home.

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From Indian University Web site: «When exceptionally complete fossil sites are studied, usually a mix of patterns are seen: some species still seem to appear suddenly (within a few hundred thousand years), while others clearly appear gradually (over many millions of years).

Of course, they won't use the term «evolved» even when proposing far more rapid evolutionary change over just a few thousands of years than biologists posit for the development of those species.

Over thousands of generations, so much cu.mulative change builds up that the great - great - great etc. grandson will be so different from its great - great - great etc. grandfather as to amount to a new species.

There are literally millions of fossils that have been recovered, of thousands of different species and they are all located where they would be in the fossil record if life evolved slowly over billions of years.

Over ten thousand years ago our species discovered, and honoured, that nutrient dense plants were capable of sustaining human life.

The capsicum species has come a long way since the early days of its existence, with well over three and a half thousand varieties currently known.

As a species, we are more intimately connected physically and virtually than at any time since our distant ancestors left their collective East African communities over a hundred thousand years ago to flee dangers and explore our beautiful world.

The team pored over thousands of the specimens, noting when different species had lived based on the geological layer from which they were collected and assessing the shapes and sizes of more than 6,000 individuals.

Over thousands of years, humans have found ways to put other species to work, from spinning silk to storing water.

To expose this genetic signature, Cooper needs a large number of bones, all from a single species — preferably distributed over thousands of years.

«We estimated that over 28 thousand lemurs are kept illegally as pets in Malagasy cities over the last three years alone,» said Reuter, who has recently been appointed to the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission's Primate Specialist Group.

The classification system created by the authors performed well in a public contest using a set of thousands of recordings with over 500 bird species from Brazil.

Humans have driven thousands of species extinct over the millennia, ranging from moas — giant, flightless birds that lived in New Zealand — to most lemurs in Madagascar.

Professor Bellwood and a team of international colleagues, led by Professor David Mouillot from the University of Montpellier, examined the «jobs» of over six thousand coral reef fish species across 169 locations worldwide.

Over a few thousand years, this process gave rise to a complex food web in Lake Victoria, as the new species, in turn, influenced their environment.

Like the gut, the skin is home to over a trillion organisms at any given time, including thousands of species of bacteria as well as viruses and fungi.

By erecting thirty thousand dams of significant size across the American West, they dewatered countless rivers, wiped out millions of acres of riparian habitat, shut off many thousands of river miles of salmon habitat, silted over spawning beds, poisoned return flows with agricultural chemicals, set the plague of livestock loose on the arid land — in a nutshell they made it close to impossible for numerous native species to survive.

Unfortunately, the canine species has evolved over tens of thousands of years to require mostly fats and proteins.

Even though there are over two thousand species of fleas, most dogs surprisingly only have one type, Ctenocephalides felis, more commonly known as the cat flea.

There are thousands of animal species all over the world, and the HSUS works directly or indirectly to save, protect or rescue just about all of them.

Over thousands of years, a new species of cat eventually evolved that naturally made its home around people: felis catus.

Chaser knows over a thousand of them — more than any other animal of any species except humans.

Their survival as a species over thousands of years depended on it.

Not only is Costa Rica home to an incredible 500 thousand unique organisms — representing over 4 % of all the known species on Earth, the country is also quickly emerging and one of the most animal - friendly ones in the world.

Nature preserves along the coast are home to over two thousand species of plants.

Overview Our Kayak & Birding Tour is a SPECIAL one day experience (Sunday, June 3 only) focused on kayaking with an emphasis on viewing birds from the water in the Scorpion Anchorage area.The Channel Islands» isolation over thousands of years has created a unique environment for rare species of birds.

The Channel Islands» isolation over thousands of years has created a unique environment for rare species of birds.

Haleakala National Park is home to more threatened and endangered species than any other national park in the U.S. Due to the isolated volcanic area, all of the plants and animals either traveled thousands of miles over land and sea or were brought over by Hawaiians or other visitors.

Learn about the thousands of plants and animal species, many of which are endemic to the area - over 400 species of birds alone, including 30 species of hummingbirds.

As the native species recover on Anacapa, Howald said, biologists are making sure the rats are gone by putting out thousands of traps in prime rat habitat over a sustained period.

The tidal mud flats of the Langebaan Lagoon attract thousands of migratory birds every year, as well as attracting bird watchers who come to view over 300 species of birds found in the lagoon waters.

The Great Barrier Reef has a delicate reef ecosystem that evolved over hundreds of thousands of years, and gave life to more than 6,600 species and plants and beasts.

Thanks to a vast variation in geography and climate, India is incredibly diverse and home to some 350 mammals, over 2,000 species of birds and thousands of fish and reptiles.

The marine park area is home to over a thousand different species of fish and more than five hundred different corals.

Discover indigenous villages and atmospheric ruins aged over a thousand years old; gaze at the iconic pyramid of Chichen Itza, a New World Wonder as you explore the sacred site; observe diverse species of wildlife in protected and picturesque nature reserves; and learn fascinating facts about the Mayan empire from an engaging guide.

Over a thousand different gunship parts with different stats, divided among four playable species.

Clearly, the loss of biodiversity (estimated at thousands of times the natural backgroud rate), the number of well known species that are threatened (10 - 40 % depending on taxonomic group), the loss of 10,000 - 30,000 genetically distinct populations per day (see Hughes et al., 1997) massive declines of groundwater, soil productivity and fertility, etc. as well as the fact that human activities now impact biogeochemical cycles over huge spatial scales is sufficient evidence that our species is living off of natural capital, rather than income.

Plant species become adapted to local conditions over thousands of years, meaning that what is locally adapted today could do poorly tomorrow as the climate changes.

The researchers studied over a thousand trees of different ages, covering 12 different species and three different parts of the tropics.

New species came into being over tens and hundreds of thousands of years.

New species may come into being over many thousands of years, but all generations of our descendants that we can imagine will live on a far more desolate planet than the one we knew.

Payne, 75, is best known for his 1968 discovery and recordings of songs by humpback whales, and for finding that some whale species can communicate with each other over thousands of miles.

However, the Big Five occurred over periods of hundreds of thousands to millions of years, so Barnosky and colleagues also attempted to determine how long it might take us to reach mass extinction levels (75 % of species extinct).

To answer this question, the scientists examined a hypothetical scenario in which the Big Five extinctions occurred suddenly, such that all of the species went extinct over just 500 years rather than over hundreds of thousands to millions of years.

In the mid-1990s, the island fox's numbers had plummeted from the thousands to, in some cases, just over a dozen — raising alarms that the species would soon be extinct and prompting them to be classified as a «critically endangered» species.

During its over three year journey the HMS Challenger not only collected thousands of new species and sounded unknown ocean depths, but also took hundreds of temperature readings — data which is now proving invaluable to our understanding of climate change.

Flickr has over 147 thousand entries for that collection of species, from a pink jelleyfish, to green jellyfish, to blue and orange.