Sentences with phrase «birds and bats which»

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Kunz is involved in the emerging field of aeroecology, which focuses on how airborne organisms — birds, bats, arthropods and microbes — depend on the support of the lower atmosphere that is closest to the earth's surface or aerosphere.

Using X-ray crystallography, performed at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, Cusack and colleagues were able to determine the atomic structure of the whole polymerase from two strains of influenza: influenza B, one of the strains that cause seasonal flu in humans, but which evolves slowly and therefore isn't considered a pandemic threat; and the strain of influenza A — the fast - evolving strain that affects humans, birds and other animals and can cause pandemics — that infects bats.

They found that frugivores which are not targeted by hunters — such as small birds, bats and marsupials — are only able to disperse small seeds, which are associated with small trees.

One example is the evolution of powered flight in bats and birds which requires a high metabolic rate.

«Macaques and gibbons are known to disappear completely from forests which have been converted to rubber, and our review shows that numbers of bird, bat and beetle species can decline by up to 75 percent.»

the rapid complication of ensuring a stable power supply, a large and for some, no longer affordable increases in energy costs, the creation of severe biological consequences with the wholesale destruction of bats in particular plus severe bird kills which are all still mostly hidden by the wind industry if personal anecdotal information from within the wind industry is correct.

To address wildlife concerns, ACCIONA conducted environmental impact studies on birds, bats, and wetland habitat, which were shared during an extensive county permitting and review process during the project development phase.

That problem — * exasperated sigh * — is this: if the RSPB is really concerned about the potential disturbance to wildlife of a few noisy lorries and drill rigs (which, let's not forget, are only up for a short period, after which they are replaced by a silent extraction device called a Christmas tree), how come it's so cheerfully complacent about the epic numbers of rare birds and protected bats which are sliced and diced (or, in the case of bats, barotraumatised — i.e. made to implode) by the industrial wind turbines which the RSPB not only champions but from which it benefits financially.

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This thriving example of urban agriculture is one of many surprising sustainable initiatives at the Dizengoff Center shopping mall, which includes bird habitat, a tree nursery, rooftop apiary, and even a bat cave for native fruit bats to call home.

Ironically, many states are outlawing certain pesticides to «protect bees, birds, butterflies and other pollinators,» while continuing to use Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPS) to mandate industrial wind sprawl, which slaughters pollinators, eagles, and countless other birds and bats.

**** The wind industry and its parasites have — from the outset — pitched these things as a «planet saving, clean, green and environmentally friendly technology»; which doesn't quite gel with the wholesale slaughter of birds and bats.

The central, endlessly repeated lie upon which the wind industry seeks to «justify» the colossal and endless subsidies upon which it critically depends; the destruction of wind farm neighbours» health, wealth and happiness; and the slaughter of millions of birds and bats, is that wind power causes substantial reductions of CO2 emissions in the electricity sector.

But there are other options for viable wind turbines that are claimed to be bird - and bat - friendly, including the Catching Wind Power (CWP) device, which will soon be tested, improved upon, and manufactured by Sigma Design.