Sentences with phrase «as habitat»

It has pristine blue waters, amazing dive sites which have an abundance of coral reefs and 15 hectares of lush, protected wood land which serves as habitat for native plants and animals.

The cover crop plants also serve as habitats for predators.

The virus «emerges» when human activity, such as habitat destruction, causes host - human contact.

Comprehensive plans will require a lot of data, such as the habitat of endangered species, the location of oil deposits, and strength of winds.

As with trees, species losses occur gradually as habitats change, the researchers found.

Wild species are threatened with extinction as their habitats are destroyed by human disturbance.

The exhibition celebrates the architect's career of over six decades and highlights the experience of architecture as habitat.

In this session the class splits into groups to find out more about animals that have rainforests as their habitat.

Fees from adoptions go directly to animal care expenses, such as habitat construction, veterinary care, enrichment and much more!

That quality extends to the care given to protecting and preserving water resources and natural spaces within the course as habitat for wildlife.

This could lead to deep sea corals slowly diminishing in complexity, scale, and in the biological diversity they support as habitats.

These waterways help supply drinking water and serve as habitat for aquatic, plant and wild life.

They also included what threats the species had been facing, such as habitat destruction or hunting.

He said this meant Australian freshwater fish provided a rare testing ground for theories about evolution and the role of factors such as habitat, diet and competition in shaping evolutionary processes.

But whatever it's called, it's clear that palm oil production is leading to massive deforestation due to carbon - emitting activities like slashing and burning the forest to make way for palm plantations, as well as habitat loss for a wide variety of species like orangutans, tigers, rhinoceros, and elephants.

Yet exposure to pesticides, toxins, and harmful chemicals in the environment as well as habitat loss have created...

On the other hand, the equivalent nuclear generation might at a rougn guess occupy a hundred square miles or so (in a few hundred sites dispersed over the country), most of which can be nicely landscaped and used as habitat by wild creatures.

Air pollution isn't good for anyone and roadways take space that could otherwise be used as a habitat for wild animals.

Coral reefs act as habitats for fish and other wildlife, providing food for communities worldwide and generating tourism dollars for seaside economies.

The coastal California gnatcatcher's status as a distinct subspecies makes it eligible for federal protection to keep the bird's shrub - land as habitat rather than a real estate development.

But sage grouse «leks,» or mating grounds, are becoming less and less lively as habitat dwindles and numbers decline — especially in the Mono Basin area, where an isolated, genetically distinct population is holding on by a thread.

Marine litter can act as an enabler of this loss: non-indigenous invasive species often use litter in the ocean as a habitat in which to hide, as a platform on which to settle or as a transport medium for moving into new territories.

They have long been the top predator in the Arctic, but their position is under threat as their habitat melts away beneath their feet and other animals move in.

These animals have declined as their habitat has been destroyed, they've been caught up in fishing gear,...

Often photographed clinging to Arctic ice floes as its habitat melts away into warming waters, the polar bear is the poster child for U.S. efforts to save wildlife on the brink of extinction using the Endangered Species Act.

Factors such as habitat fragmentation add to the challenge.

Denizens of bottomlands and old forests from the Carolinas to east Texas, the birds dwindled in number as their habitat was logged from the late 1800s through the 1930s.

Other factors include collisions with automobiles, territorial disputes with other panthers as habitat shrinks, and inbreeding resulting from their isolated population.

Species like the monarch butterfly also rely on Michoacán forest as habitat, though Coria said there does not appear to have been damage to the monarch wintering grounds from avocado expansion yet.»

Earthists are appalled by the decimation of this diversity as habitat is destroyed.

The Rainforest Alliance and its partners in the region identified the principal threats to biodiversity in these landscapes as habitat degradation and loss due to wholesale deforestation or land - use conversion; gold mining is a further threat unique to the Peruvian landscape, affecting the Tambopata Reserve and its surrounding buffer zone.

They also function as habitat cross-links between meadows, fallows and different field margins.

Ice - loving Adelies, which winter on sea ice, would see their numbers dwindle as their habitat warmed, the thinking went.

HAMPTON COURT PALACE, England — First it was birds and now it is bees that are finding their numbers under increasing pressure from sources as diverse as habitat loss, insecticide use and changing weather patterns.

Sites where the atlas shows a baseline clear - sky brightness equivalent to twilight or a half - illuminated moon are probably excluded as habitats for specialist species that need the true cover of darkness to survive and thrive.»

The tortoise currently faces intense pressure as its habitat is eyed for solar and wind energy development.

Use of elephant dung as habitat by amphibians,» will be published in Biotropica.

«While this document focuses on stewardship and awareness, we have other groups in the state that are heavily involved in other aspects of bee health, such as habitat restoration like Delta Council and Delta F.A.R.M..

They are also on the brink of extinction, as their habitat disappears under concrete

Researchers found the Radcliffe's Night frog and the Kadalar Night Frog inside private or state - owned plantation areas facing threats such as habitat disturbance, modification and fragmentation.

«This loss of seagrass is a terrible problem as the habitats in Indonesia have a major significance for daily food supply and general livelihoods.

These quail used to be fairly common in the state, but they depend on tall - grass prairies as habitat.

As their habitats heat up, pikas living at low elevations have one major shot at avoiding extinction: migrating to cooler, higher parts of the mountain.