Sentences with phrase «creates changing habitats»

The varying vegetation creates changing habitats, and so we will see different animals in each section of the park.

Not exact matches

These changes will occur because elephants are ecological engineers that help create and maintain forest habitat by dispersing seeds, recycling and spreading nutrients, and clearing understories, Poulsen explained.

Combining data on precipitation, topography, habitat changes, dam construction, and pollution, the researchers created detailed maps of the threats to rivers around the world.

By understanding how these fishes evolved, by understanding how we got from the past to the present, we can create a model for predicting what's going to happen as global climates change, as deforestation continues, and all of these aquatic habitats change.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, however, made clear several times during a press conference announcing the department's decision that, despite his acknowledgement that the polar bear's sea ice habitat is melting due to global warming, the ESA will not be used as a tool for trying to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for creating climate change.

In short, it appears that our technology has created ways of accelerating change (genetic engineering, for instance) and new habitats (like the modern city), essentially fracturing our biology and transforming our future as a species.

More importantly, edge effects create species communities near edges that bear little resemblance to the communities of forest interiors, and this species turnover likely reflects dramatic changes to the ecological functioning of modified forest habitats.

«This could create substantial ecological problems in the Arctic, including habitat range changes and loss of biodiversity.»

Elsewhere, climate change - induced drought shrinks bird habitats in Turkey, while worldwide manmade noise makes it increasingly difficult for birds to communicate, creating another means of avian population decrease.

«Taking care of the planet is need of the hour,» writes Rashmi Kathuria (@rashkath), who shares tips to tackle climate change such as setting up a school club with activities related to habitat protection, celebrating «Earth Week,» promoting «Earth Hour» (the time to turn off that undesirable power), and an «Anti-Cracker Campaign» (to create awareness for the environmental risks of burning crackers).

By planting these corridors, the park hopes to increase the amount of butterflies and expand their habitat — creating a change that is as beautiful as the butterflies themselves.

Tree planting has multiple benefits: It creates productive habitat for biodiversity, strengthens relations among our partners and local communities, helps safeguard watersheds, and sequesters carbon to mitigate climate change.

Example recommendations include: create dedicated funding streams for green infrastructure; incentivize the planting of native and regionally - appropriate plants, protection of habitats, and the increase of biodiversity; and encourage the inclusion of climate change assessments in green space planning, including at the regional level.

Commit to making significant progress towards restoring the natural environment by 2020, including the doubling of UK woodland cover, meeting other habitat targets and ensuring that protected sites are in good condition; through utilising reforms to agricultural incentives, planning policy and other measures to create high quality landscapes rich in nature and able to adapt to climate change.

According to the video below, created as part of the Living the Change series by Happen Films, describes how Martin abandoned the world of high finance and city living and chose, instead, to create a beautiful farm that features a productive vegetable garden, food forest, and wildlife habitats too.