Sentences with phrase «by shrinking habitats»

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In one area of Ethiopia, wolf habitat shrunk by 34 percent from 1985 to 2003.

A recent report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Montana Trout Unlimited (MTU) found that global warming is shrinking cold - water fish habitat, threatening the trout and other fish that depend upon it.

The international team of researchers led by Barry Sinervo of the University of California, Santa Cruz, found that even though their habitats remained intact, the population of one group of lizards in Mexico has shrunk by 12 per cent since 1975 due to climate change.

Six groups of seals threatened by shrinking sea ice are gaining protections, as their habitats are forecast to shrink significantly due to global warming

There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change.

Lister explains that climate change could be to blame for the mammoths» demise, as their range shrank when grassland habitats were replaced by forests.

The habitat of this brown lemur in Madagascar is likely to shrink by half before the end of the century due to climate change, finds a Duke University study.

Auto accidents, rodenticides and shrinking habitat are killing urban cats that largely occupy an area surrounded by highways and development, but a proposed wildlife bridge could offer promise

«Dahl's toad - headed turtle threatened by fragmented habitat, shrinking populations.»

But on a planet with a warming climate, these same adaptations could spell the bird's doom: The ptarmigan's range is severely limited by its sole dependence on alpine habitat, which is shrinking as hotter temperatures sneak up the mountainsides, threatening to push the treeline — and the ptarmigan — to ever - higher elevations, until there's no more room to rise.

Their habitat has steadily shrunk, and the various species of deer that are their favored prey have died off or been hunted by humans.

Altered fish communities: Warmer lakes and streams will certainly provide more habitat for warmwater species as conditions in northern reaches of the basin become more suitable for warmwater fish and as lakes and streams are vacated by cool - and coldwater species.91 Habitat for coldwater fish, though not expected to disappear, will shrink substantially, though it could also expand in some areas, such as Lake Superior.

* More than half of all plants, a third of animals at risk - study * Rapid peak in greenhouse gas emissions could reduce impacts By Environment Correspondent Alister Doyle OSLO, May 12 (Reuters)- The habitats of many common plants and animals will shrink dramatically this century unless governments act quickly to cut rising greenhouse gas emissions, scientists said on Sunday after studying 50,000 species around the world.

For example, developers might have to mitigate the impact on a site by shrinking the construction footprint or buying additional land to protect from development and offset habitat loss, he says.