Sentences with phrase «available habitat»

To complicate matters, timber harvest has reduced available habitat for both species.

They use smaller areas in winter when snow limits available habitat.

Headwater streams, which provide the coldest available habitat in many areas, are often assumed to be the ultimate refuges for coldwater species, but many of these species are also acid - sensitive — and many headwaters of the southern Appalachian region are already too acid to support them.

Expansion of oxygen minimum zones may reduce available habitat for tropical pelagic fishes.

The main findings were that Commonwealth environmental water extended the presence of Golden perch larvae through summer, decreased salinity levels in the Lower Lakes and the Coorong improving available habitat for native fish, and exported an estimated 600 000 tonnes of salt from the Basin through the Murray Mouth.

They interfered with the lizards» ability to move around and limited available habitat by reducing the variety of rodent species which create burrows.

Home range use by Island Foxes is influenced by various factors including topographic features, available habitat types, habitat - specific resource abundance, fox density, sex, and age (USFWS 2012).

A dead zone off the coast of West Africa is reducing the amount of available habitat for Atlantic tuna and billfish species, reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in...

But the authors warn that climate change may negatively affect amphibians in other ways such as reducing available habitat.

That number is stable, but has just about maxed out the available habitat in Russia, Feng says.

If first contact turns out to be within our solar system, then at least we have some prior knowledge about the available habitats.

Some octopodids appear to space themselves far apart from each other, while others clump in available habitat.

Available habitat, in the form of sea rocks, abounds on the coasts of Alaska and southwestern Canada; if Purple Sandpipers colonize these regions, they may well persist.

Polar bears today are also well distributed throughout their available habitat (winter sea ice), which is a recognized characteristic of a healthy species.