Sentences with phrase «alpine habitats»

Rising temperatures in alpine habitats worldwide have resulted in declines in flowering among indigenous plants and contributed to dramatic declines in populations of several bumblebee species prevalent in those regions.

The scientists have been studying a population of snow voles (Chionomys nivalis) in their alpine habitat above Churwalden (Graubünden, Switzerland) at an altitude of around 2,000 meters since 2006.

But on a planet with a warming climate, these same adaptations could spell the bird's doom: The ptarmigan's range is severely limited by its sole dependence on alpine habitat, which is shrinking as hotter temperatures sneak up the mountainsides, threatening to push the treeline — and the ptarmigan — to ever - higher elevations, until there's no more room to rise.

This bird will see its alpine habitat constricted by a rising tree line, and without the ability to travel long distances to more suitable mountain ranges further north, the white - tailed ptarmigan faces a grim future in the conterminous United States.

It is certainly altering the alpine habitat.

Not exact matches

His particular interests include marine and coastal habitats, wildflowers, birds, climate change, and alpine ecology.

You have this alpine zone of habitat that's really weird.

A new study from Stockholm University shows that the ancient pasture burning maintains biodiversity and habitats for alpine plant species not found anywhere else.

For alpine plant species, climate change presents a special challenge: To escape increased greenhouse warming, the species have to move to a higher - altitude habitat.

This problem arises because the longevity of these alpine plants favors a persistence in the habitats they currently occupy.

Arctic, alpine, montane, southern and oceanic plants thrive cheek by jowl, enabling us to study a unique habitat.

According to research by the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station and its collaborators, for pools within alpine meadows to be suitable habitat for laying eggs and sustaining tadpoles, little things mean a lot.

The researchers» work began with collecting observations on hoverfly behavior in three of these insects» natural habitats — tropical Bangalore, alpine Sikkim, and hemi - arboreal Uppsala.

For starters, succulents have special water - storing tissues that allow them to stay alive for long periods of time without water and survive weirdly diverse — anywhere from desert to alpine — habitats.

Due to its grasslands, alpine heathlands (shrubby habitats), and temperate rainforests, many varieties of vegetation can be found including the Huon Pine, which is believed to be one of the tallest and oldest trees in the world.

Habitat: Cow parsnip grows in a wide variety of forested habitat types, grasslands, shrublands, meadows, alpine, and riparian zones.

Furthermore, mankind was living in every conceivable habitat, including forest, jungle, alpine, desert, marsh, grasslands, coastal, and arctic.

The Western is more of a forest bird, the Mountain more partial to open habitats: high sagebrush desert, mountain meadows, and even alpine tundra.