Sentences with phrase «changes on bird populations»

Over the long term, these findings will help scientists understand the impact of climate and land - use changes on bird populations.

Research showing prospective effects of climate change on bird populations demonstrated a need for prevention, one approach being renewable energy.

Not exact matches

Focus on Feeders helps us understand the changes in populations during this stressful time of year for birds.»

Mass Audubon is on the forefront of understanding the ever - changing patterns of bird and other wildlife populations, and what these changes may mean for the nature of Massachusetts.

But sustaining a population of the birds on a farm is a challenge; because of borers» small size and seasonal population changes, they make up only about 10 % of warblers» diets.

Shifting to renewable energy sources has been widely touted as one of the best ways to fight climate change, but even renewable energy can have a downside, as in the case of wind turbines» effects on bird populations.

(The Condor: Ornithological Applications, May 6, 2015)-- Shifting to renewable energy sources has been widely touted as one of the best ways to fight climate change, but even renewable energy can have a downside, as in the case of wind turbines» effects on bird populations.

He has particular interests in (1) the use of ancient DNA methods to document changes in genetic variation through time and phylogenetic relationships of extinct or endangered organisms (especially of the recently extinct Hawaiian avifauna); (2) the use of highly variable genetic markers to measure genetic structure and relatedness, and to ascertain mating systems, in natural populations, and (3) the use of genetics to study the evolutionary interactions between hosts, vectors and infectious disease organisms (e.g., major projects on introduced avian malaria in native Hawaiian birds and invasive chytrid fungus in amphibians).

Shifting to renewable energy sources has been widely touted as one of the best ways to fight climate change, but even renewable energy can have a downside, as in the case of wind turbines» effects on bird populations.

Already in 2006 a group of four researchers from the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO - KNAW) reported in a publication in Nature that they could attribute strong population declines for the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) to a climate change - induced trophic temporal mismatch, causing the birds to miss the peak in spring food availability their successful nesting depended on.

Climate change and the increasing impact of polar bears on bird populations.

changing migration patterns of birds and other animals that affect by direct means (foraging, excrement) and indirect means (control of pests, affects on populations of beneficial insects such as bee populations and so on) 5.

That's why we are focused on conserving habitat and reducing other threats that have the potential to reduce bird populations even before the impacts of climate change are fully realized.

We learned that bird populations in the North Sea collapsed last year, after the sand eels on which they feed left its warmer waters - and how the number of scientific papers recording changes in ecosystems due to global warming has escalated from 14 to more than a thousand in five years.

Was the «expert» prediction correct that modern climate change (i.e., global warming) would have a significant negative impact on bird specie populations?