Sentences with phrase «among forest fragments»

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The authors examine the concept and importance of maintaining connectivity (ability of wildlife populations to move among landscapes between habitat «islands» such as mountain tops, forest fragments and isolated wetlands) and corridor ecology.

Yet the global policy and science communities do not differentiate among the relative values of different types of forest landscapes — which range from highly intact ones to those which are heavily logged, fragmented, burnt, drained and / or over-hunted — due in part to the lack of a uniform way of measuring their quality.

However, shuttling among fragments takes energy, which is why larger tracts of forest are a more attractive place to live.

Now, a new University of Utah - led study, appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that targeted forest regeneration among the largest and closest forest fragments in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil can dramatically reduce extinction rates of bird species overforest regeneration among the largest and closest forest fragments in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil can dramatically reduce extinction rates of bird species overforest fragments in the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania and the Atlantic Forest of Brazil can dramatically reduce extinction rates of bird species overForest of Brazil can dramatically reduce extinction rates of bird species over time.

Ninety - six percent of the ancient redwood forests have been destroyed by logging, but the untouched fragments that remain are among the great wonders of nature.

The cabins are set among carefully preserved forest fragments and landscaped gardens, where both ornamental and a variety of fruit trees abound, attracting many different species of birds and butterflies.

Among these, truly knockout photography by Walker Evans, Bernice Abbot and August Sander; a fragment from an Egyptian frieze, dating back to the reign of Akhenaten; Giacometti's The Forest, and two small collaged works by Franz Kline, Untitled (c. 1950 -» 52), which tops this review, and Study for «Flanders» (1961).