Sentences with phrase «as more habitat»

In the end, despite the adaptable features they inherited, the Neanderthals ended up as more habitat specialists than we did.

Not exact matches

Many are interested in releasing beneficial insects or planting more habitat such as hedgerows, but feel constrained by lack of knowledge and experience.

Orangutan numbers on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo plummeted from 1999 to 2015, more as a result of human hunting than habitat loss, an international research team finds.

Narrow species ranges and fragmented appropriate habitats (as well as man - made and natural barriers like cities and mountains) will make it hard for more temperate and tropical plants to move.

Wolfe's group is pressing the Interior Department to categorize the walrus as either «threatened» or «endangered,» a move that would give the federal government more oversight of commercial activity — like oil drilling — in the walrus's critical habitat.

As humans put stress on the habitats of more complicated marine creatures, Robison explains, «jellies, because they are relatively simple, cheap to build, and can reproduce very quickly, can respond to negative impacts on other kinds of animals by rushing in to fill their niche.»

Roads break up habitats and block migration routes, but as our species continues to expand, some researchers are asking which is better for wildlife: more traffic on fewer roads or less traffic on more roads?

If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

When a delegation from Washington, D.C., came to scope out the Virgin Islands as a possible site for a new, still more advanced habitat, it was as if the candy store had come straight to the kid.

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

«The Base in not well surveyed for most animal groups and given its location on Cuba, the extent of rare habitat, [and] the number of rare plants, there are bound to be many more discoveries to be made and we are promoting it to other biologists as a research destination,» Droege says.

As we encroach more and more on the kissing bug's habitat and remove their usual blood meal sources, such as rodents, says Dorn, the insects — attracted by light — are moving into houses to tap new food sourceAs we encroach more and more on the kissing bug's habitat and remove their usual blood meal sources, such as rodents, says Dorn, the insects — attracted by light — are moving into houses to tap new food sourceas rodents, says Dorn, the insects — attracted by light — are moving into houses to tap new food sources.

«As particular strains are associated with particular habitats, hosts, and disease symptoms, this work will help us understand why particular symptoms occur in particular areas and help us to target control efforts more efficiently,» the authors say.

One «growing phenomenon in the Arctic [is] polar bears foraging on land as their primary habitat, sea ice, retreats,» Kintisch writes, which makes field work even more dangerous, and difficult, than it would be otherwise.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

Then Westerners arrived and bird populations started to disappear more quickly due to a combination of threats, including habitat loss, introduction of invasive species and the arrival of diseases such as avian malaria.

Caribou populations are predicted to become more isolated and fragmented as climate change shrinks habitat and as caribou have fewer opportunities for genes to flow between individuals and herds, explained Hundertmark.

Now, an elaborate genetic study conducted by researchers at Eawag and Bern University helps to explain the secret of its success: the stickleback can evidently adapt very rapidly to new habitats — so rapidly that, for evolutionary biologists, it serves as a model for the divergence of a single species into two or more distinct species.

The strategy — widely anticipated but issued 5 months later than the White House had originally planned — also outlines a series of steps and goals for agencies to pursue, such as tackling bee - killing pathogens and mites, reducing pesticide use and reviewing its safety to bees, restoring degraded pollinator habitats, and encouraging the planting of more flowering plants and other pollinator - friendly vegetation.

The ocelot, a small native wildcat listed as an endangered species, has already suffered from severe habitat loss; the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department estimates there are no more than 120 left in Texas, and scientists worry that the wall would further deplete their numbers.

By JOHN BONNER As more and more of the Earth's surface is swallowed up by towns, roads and agriculture, pressure grows on the remaining areas of truly wild habitat.

Cities with more natural habitats support more bird and plant species and experience less loss in species as the city grows.

But if the habitats are lost, Jacobi warns, the ark could end up as little more than a high - priced collection of lost species.

But the same study shows that the iconic species» living space is becoming more fragmented by roads, and that the panda still has less habitat today than three decades ago, when it was first listed as endangered.

Large ones provide ecosystem services such as filtering seawater, recycling nutrients on reefs and providing habitat for other species, and are estimated to be able to live for more than 2300 years.

Populus angustifolia, more commonly known as a cottonwood, is widely found across North America, from arid Arizona to the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and from mid-elevation habitats to peaks more than 8,000 feet high.

Yet as mundane as the whole thing may seem, restoring native habitat to farmland could represent the start of an agricultural revolution — one that could make much of our food supply more sustainable.

Then, comparing the environmental conditions such as climate, vegetation and human impact at these locations to sites across tropical Africa where there was an absence of apes, the researchers were able to more precisely calculate the «suitable environmental conditions» — or habitat — necessary for apes to live.

As the climate warms and some tree species shift toward cooler, more hospitable habitats, new research finds soil microbes could be playing a crucial role in determining where young trees can migrate and how well they survive when they arrive.

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

Infection rates of diseases like malaria, dengue fever and West Nile virus are likely to rise as a warming climate creates more mosquito - friendly habitats

Collection continues, and as the researchers accumulate more data, they hope to further analyze patterns in monarch parasitism over space, time and plant habitat, she says.

Without ship strikes as a big factor holding the population back — and no other readily apparent human - caused reason (although noise, chemical pollution and interactions with fisheries may impact them)-- it is even more likely that the population is growing more slowly because whale numbers are reaching the habitat limit, something called the carrying capacity.

«As climate change continues, and temperatures in their habitats continue to increase, we could potentially see them jumping more.»

CI defines these as forests that have lost more than 90 % of their original habitat and which harbor at least 1,500 plant species that are found nowhere else in the world.

But as human contact with wildlife becomes more frequent and people continue to encroach on habitat, wild animals are being exposed to human pathogens more than ever.

To combat habitat destruction, the primary threat to biodiversity, «we need a lot more parks and reserves, and we need them to be much bigger,» said Wilson, who currently serves as university research professor emeritus at Harvard University.

First identified by William Jevons in 1865 — when he noticed more efficient engines increased rather than reduced coal use, as engines were put into more widespread use — the rebound effect for higher yields could see food prices drop, encouraging greater consumption, more food waste and even more conversion of habitats to farmland.

However, as farming practices and technologies continue to be refined, more food can be produced per unit of land — meaning less area is needed for agriculture and more land can be «spared» for natural habitats.

Although MPAs can work well at protecting habitats like coral reefs and nonmigratory wildlife such as the coconut crab, the authors say that more effort needs to be made to protect migratory species such as the green turtle and the hawksbill turtle from poachers, marine debris, and fishing gear entanglement.

But when the salinity of the water changes rapidly — as happened when fish invaded freshwater habitats — fish would have needed a much more efficient way of exchanging ions with their environment.

Lead author Dr Bethan Purse from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology said, «Our new study indicates that environmental factors, particularly habitat, have made some areas of Britain such as cities more vulnerable to rapid invasion of the harlequin ladybird than other areas, even after recording intensity and proximity to initial invasion sites are accounted for.»

With habitats such as hedgerows and hay meadows in decline in many countries, fewer nest sites are available — leading to more competition.

Such habitat losses will likely increase, as the country's current population of about 22 million is projected to more than double by 2050.

With the recent discovery of a significant volume of water on the lunar surface, the idea of the moon as a livable habitat has become just that much more plausible.

Now, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed designating a vast area — more than 906,000 square kilometers — off Alaska as protected habitat for the seals.

They also became bigger to more effectively digest this low quality food, and as a strategy against predators in these new, open habitats,» explains Juan L. Cantalapiedra, researcher at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany.

As more deer pack suburban forest fragments, they denude understory greenery and with it songbird habitat.

Studies like this one could enable us to predict which species will be most vulnerable to population declines due to habitat changes, as the inflexible specialist species are more likely to suffer when they can't find enough of their preferred food.

So far, many are redistributing in a similar pattern: As habitat that was once too cold warms up, species are expanding their ranges toward the poles, whereas boundaries closer to the equator have remained more static.