Sentences with phrase «creates habitats»

With the support of an expert team, Chihuly's exploration of color and form continued unhindered as his focus evolved from small sculptures to larger outdoor installations, to vast environmental exhibitions wherein he creates habitats made entirely from glass.

By colonizing pebbles and rocks, it creates habitats for many other species.

The ONLY REAL SOLUTION to the overcrowding of areas like Gaza that does not result in war or death occuring is the colonization of planetary bodies like the Moon and Mercury both of which have more than ample supplies of water to create habitats for humans.

Farmers using climate - smart practices understand that trees do a lot on farms: they can act as windbreaks, reducing soil erosion; they can enrich soil; they can filter water, resulting in higher water quality; they provide shade for workers and shade - loving plants; they create habitat for wildlife and wildlife corridors; they suck up and store greenhouse gasses — the list goes on.

Create their habitat using a cardboard box, construction paper, glue, and natural materials.

It creates water quality, it creates habitat, and along with the flora and fauna it creates erosion protection.»

The mangrove forests along tropical and subtropical coastlines provide myriad benefits: They buffer against waves and wind, inhibit erosion, create habitat for wildlife and fish, and prevent saltwater intrusion into rivers and streams.

The group hopes to raise the $ 35 million it will need to create the habitat, a boxy structure that would accommodate 25 aquanauts at depths up to 60 feet.

Eco-offsetting — creating habitats to replace ones lost to development — can save wildlife, but may instead help business trump nature

Dr Sally Wood, from the Coral Reef Research at Bristol (CRAB) group in the School of Earth Sciences and lead author of the paper, explains: «Coral build the framework of tropical coral reefs, creating habitats which support one of the most diverse ecosystems on Earth.

«Corals are creating a habitat for other species, and reefs are critical to fisheries.»

They also tend to create habitats — grassy or sandy roadside shoulders, for example — that are attractive but dangerous to turtles, leading to an increase in road kill.

Because it would just create stormwater problems, it wouldn't create habitat.

Now we know that corals can engineer their own stable environment from nothing, and create habitats for all sorts of species in places that we thought were unsuitable for reef formation.»

But they can also promote species and create habitat, maintaining the ecological balance of the forest and the region's most frequent natural disturbance over the long term.

The invasive fiber - like red seaweeds (Dasysiphonia japonica) had covered up to 90 percent of some areas, altering the visual landscape, and the newly created habitat structure now supported two to three times more small creatures at the base of the food chain.

They are a foundation species in the intertidal community that create habitat and enlarge the diversity of life supported by a locale.

We can all help protect these species by understanding them, not killing them, and even helping create habitats for them.

Creating habitats for these solitary bees is a great way to encourage their populations and protect them.

Elementary teachers create a habitat that has multiple areas — for example, a library / reading area, work areas, and areas for discussion.

Along with the writing prompts, color and black and white templates for creating Habitats Journals are included.

For grades 4 - 6 A special learning poster includes an interview with a burrowing owl (they're the stars of the movie), tips for getting outside to observe wildlife in your school's neighborhood, and ideas for creating habitats.

Plant - filled ecosystems are part of the biosphere, making food and creating habitats for all other life forms on our planet, including us.

Through hands - on learning that included testing the pH level of the local stream, creating habitats for local animal species, and maintaining a history trail, students bolstered their science and math skills while contributing to a cleaner and greener community.

I'll choose to protect and create habitat, minimize collisions with my windows AND control cats in my yard and neighborhood in order to minimize the negative effects us humans cause to bird life.

Given the complex nature of source - sink dynamics, the suggestion by Baker et al. that cat predation may be creating a habitat sink seems rather premature.

We show that modifications of habitat produced by grazing and by certain types of fire have strong effects on cat movement behaviour, with the general result that fire and grazing can create habitat conditions which are strongly favoured by cats.

Campers will participate in daily arts - and - crafts projects, and work on animal projects like creating habitats for feral cats and making bird houses and pet enrichment toys.

One of the most important factors of owning a small animal is creating a habitat in which they feel comfortable.

These restoration efforts have created habitat for threatened and endangered species including coho salmon, steelhead trout, and California red - legged frogs.

Our vision is a place where generations of adults and youth can learn and grow while creating habitat needed by animals that once thrived here.

Past projects have included maintaining trails, growing plants at our native plant nurseries, creating habitat for endangered species, restoring historic sailing ships, and building fences to protect sensitive park sites.

There are also mangroves containing creating a habitat for some extraordinary wildlife.

The landscape surrounding the ocean front Inn by the Sea is planted with native materials selected to create habitat and food sources for local wildlife.

The Turneffe Islands also provide a home for mangrove forests, creating a habitat for rare birds, fish, and other animals.

Artist Alex Hartley has spent many years investigating dystopian architecture; creating habitats in often inhospitable landscapes.

I sometimes will embody one of these characters in my own performance works, donning its costumes, creating its habitat, and adopting its persona.

The Nature Conservancy teamed up with two artists to create a habitat - enhancing sculpture made from natural materials.

I float the idea that folks in and around the tropics use the hashtag #ZikaDengueHotSpot with images showing waste piles or other untended spots creating habitat for the mosquito behind these urban outbreaks.

There, on a formerly shopworn industrial site, newly planted trees, a ten - acre living roof, and a series of constructed wetlands and swales are restoring soil, creating habitat, and revitalizing the landscape while effectively filtering stormwater runoff for $ 35 million less than conventional technical methods.

A factory becomes not simply a box full of tools, but a life - affirming place that creates habitat, filters water and provides a safe, pleasant and productive work environment — all cost effectively.

Instead, we designed the plant to create habitat, make oxygen, connect employees to their surroundings and invite the return of native species.

Instead, we tried to design a manufacturing facility that would create habitat, make oxygen, connect employees to their surroundings and invite the return of native species.

We can stop rainfall creating habitats for mosquitoes, and we can develop a way of preventing malaria entirely through a number of interventions.

Instead of trying to meet its environmental responsibilities as efficiently as possible, Ford opted for a manufacturing facility that would create habitat, make oxygen, connect employees to their surroundings and invite the return of native species.

Marine ecosystems such as the Giant Kelp forests off the coast of California are dependent upon certain ocean movements — the kelp receives nutrients from the passing waves, which then creates habitat for a multitude of other species from urchins to abalone to the iconic sea otters.

Perhaps most encouraging, transportation companies like rail operator Network Rail and the Highways Agency have signed up to create and enhance pollinator habitats along railway verges and highways, essentially using Britain's existing network of transportation corridors to create habitat corridors that allow pollinators to move across the country and expand their habitat.

The artificial ravines function much like the natural ravines - controlling water flow and regeneration as well as cleaning the air, creating habitat and biomass.

... In fact, often a project that begins with pronounced concerns of Ecology or Equity (How do I create habitat?

Sometimes in our family sessions where we'll do a family coat of armor and have them identify their family strengths, or I'll have them created habitat of a an animal in the future including all of the things that he needs to survive.