Sentences with phrase «animal habitats from»

Petrit Halilaj uses materials borrowed from the Natural History Museum of Kosovo to create sculptural installations and drawings, while Julia Schmid's intricate pencil drawings portray the displays of animal habitats from a range of museums.

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The farther from the equator one is the fewer the species of plants and animals one can observe in their habitats.

An avocado orchard uses twice as much water as a regular forest, and much of that water is diverted from the natural habitat where other plants and animals can use it.

The macaw is just one of many magnificent animal species at risk from habitat destruction, including the jaguar, the night monkey, and the resplendent quetzal, Guatemala's national bird.

Off - shore mining from natural shoals is known to reduce habitat for sea ducks and other animals.

Come March, the first 25 of a planned 500 animals will be flown from enclosures in Abu Dhabi to be released into their native habitat in Chad.

But more than 40 percent of the land - dwelling animals that live in mangrove forests are now under pressure from habitat loss, concludes an analysis published this week in BioScience.

The changes shown through 2050 could lead to lost habitat, the isolation of some species and the rise of «dispersal barriers» — like a wall of new development that prevents plants and animals from migrating.

The resulting animations vividly depict how the noise from human activities physically obstructs and reduces whales» habitat, interfering with what Clark calls the animals» «communication space.»

Other tools in the researchers» arsenal were high - resolution tracking, which provided information about how the manta rays used the lagoon habitat over long and short periods of time; an acoustic camera, which logged patterns of the animals entrances and departures from the lagoons; and photo identification / laser photogrammetry — making measurements from photographs — which provided insight into whether the manta rays were staying in this habitat for longer time periods by tracking their comings and goings.

We would like to contact Aprile Pazzo as soon as possible to receive from her a full description of the animal's habitat, food, and recreational needs.

It is easiest for a microbe to jump between closely related habitats, from an animal species with one sort of body chemistry to a closely related animal species with very similar body chemistry.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

The most likely explanation is that kiwis do not need vision because of where and how they live: they are active at night, and their habitat offers plenty of food and no predators, apart from introduced animals such as stoats.

From field studies of plants and animals, researchers have learned that habitat can influence morphology and behavior — particularly sexual selection — in ways that hasten or slow down speciation.

Using «footprint DNA» from snow or mud could let them study animal numbers and movements more cheaply and without disturbing habitats.

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.

Each patch may be a diverse habitat of plants, animals, and insects but it is equally important that the landscape «quilt» is made up of a diversity of patches that are different from each other.

From their privileged vantage point, satellites are particularly well - suited to observe habitat transformation and help scientists forecast impacts on the distribution, abundance and migration of animals.

I boycott zoos that keep animals for show, as I just ask whether I would wish to spend my life in a cage, far from my habitat, when the alternative is roaming free.

In their common habitats of moss, soil, and seasonal pools, these minuscule, transparent animals routinely survive periods of complete dessication that can last from days to years.

A different perspective comes from Daniel Sol of the Center for Terrestrial Ecology and Applied Forestries in Barcelona, Spain, who studied the introduction of animals to new habitats.

Direct threats also included changes such as coral bleaching, shifting animal and plant life cycles and distributions, and habitat loss from sea level rise.

Along with one of his graduate students, he has managed to re-create the tube worms» habitat in the laboratory, the first time anyone has managed to keep the animals alive for more than a few days away from the ocean.

«A lot of people think the loss or degradation of habitat is the big threat to wild animals, but here it shows there is a major threat from direct exploitation by humans,» Ripple says.

Nevertheless, Calvignac - Spencer and colleagues write that they envision a «toolbox» of invertebrate surveyors that researchers could choose from depending on the habitat that they're studying and the kinds of animals that they're looking for.

In comparison with waters outside the MPA, animal abundance in reefs was as much as 50 times higher, «highlighting the importance of both habitat complexity and protection from fishing for fish populations.»

Growing to nearly 60 feet in length, the North Atlantic right whale was one of the first targets of the world's commercial whaling industry and was rapidly wiped out from the animal's coastal habitats in the Atlantic before whalers moved onto other species.

Conservationists talk of the «good of the species» not of rights of individual animals: for instance, deer and elephant are culled to prevent them from destroying their habitat.

Until the operation begins, wildlife rangers are patrolling to prevent animals from leaving or entering the herd's 2000 - square - kilometer habitat.

The authors point out that although conservation and breeding work in the world's zoos is an important effort, it should not take focus from the needed efforts to preserve the natural habitats of endangered animals.

Whatever the reason, these differences in colonization from one wood fall to another created a wide variety of habitats and animal communities over a relatively small patch of seafloor.

They do a lot of good for the environment — from filtering contaminants out of the water to providing a critical animal habitat — and they store much more greenhouse gas than they emit.

As part of the workshop, Dave took the educators on a field trip to conduct a mini ecological study using DNA barcoding to identify plants, animals, and fungi from the local habitat.

Research using climate models suggests that the combined effects of higher temperatures and lower oxygen will drive many marine animals away from their current habitats to areas with more oxygen, according to in a recent press release...

«Our findings suggest that large - brained animals might be better prepared to cope with environmental challenges such as climate change and habitat destruction,» said Dr Szekely, who worked with researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain), Pannon University (Hungary) and McGill University (Canada) on the project.

«Finding that methane and other forms of mostly invisible dissolved organic matter are the foundation of the food web in these caves explains why cave - adapted animals are able to thrive in the water column in a habitat without visible evidence of food,» lead author David Brankovits, from Texas A&M University at Galveston, said in a statement.

September 23, 2008 — Eastern Arizona's Apache - Sitgreaves National Forest, key Mexican gray wolf habitat, proposed a new policy requiring livestock owners to dispose of their own animals» carcasses when those animals died from causes unrelated to wolves.

Ideally, eat meats only from animals fed in their natural habitats: pastured chicken and grass - fed beef, wild elk, buffalo, and venison.

Through these biodynamic ranching practices, we are learning that healthy lands create wonderful habitats for native and migratory animals, effectively hold ground water, build topsoil, and sequester carbon from the atmosphere!»

Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it's a melting pot where animals from every environment live together — a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest shrew, you can be anything.

Wild Kratts: Madagascar Madness (2018) Four episodes from the series that transforms the Kratt Brothers, creators of the award - winning «Kratts» Creatures» and Emmy - winning «Zoboomafoo,» into animated versions of themselves, allowing the real - life zoologists to visit wild animals in their little - seen habitats and showcase key science concepts along the way.

Comprised of habitat neighborhoods like ritzy Sahara Square and frigid Tundratown, it's a melting pot where animals from every environment live together — a place where no matter what you are, from the biggest elephant to the smallest shrew, you -LSB-...]

An informative piece of writing, like an ABC book on animal habitats or a step - by - step guide that describes a science experiment, can also benefit from the multimedia features available in a digital storytelling tool.

AnimalKind lesson plan 10 (from a set of 23) View / order the accompanying resources and AnimalKind film at: www.AnimalKind.org.uk Objectives: • To understand that the local environment (school grounds) affords a variety of habitats that meet the basic needs of a range of animals and plants, which depend on each other in an interconnected way called an ecosystem.

The collection includes pets, animals from far away places, life cycles, and habitats.

On the safari, I was about two meters (6.5 feet) away from a lion eating a wildebeest, which I thought was incredible, and afterward I researched animal behaviors in their natural habitats and included these in the books, so that kids could learn more about them.»

Following on from the Humanities objectives, I went on to cover an animals and habitats unit in Science and seaside Art based on Alfred Wallis; please feel free to contact me if you would like the resources and planning for these.

3.200 A5 animal flashcards — great for selecting animals from a certain habitat or can be used as a sorting activity 4.

And while the book is only loosely based on an actual event in which the Disney company, big supporters of Sierra Club, was actually blocked by Sierra Club from building a ski resort in an area that would have destroyed the habitats of endangered animals, there was a ring to it that perhaps this was trying a little too hard to bring new details to light from that former case.