Sentences with phrase «critical habitat along»

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In the new study, he and his colleagues sought to quantify those costs by mapping each corridor along with the estimated human occupancy and the environmental values, including endangered and endemic vertebrates, plant diversity, critical habitats, carbon storage, and climate - regulation services, inside a 50 - kilometer - wide band overlaid onto each corridor.

No scientist yet knows which habitats are critical for vent organisms or how many vents can be destroyed before the connectivity with other vents along the ridge is lost.

As the result of our settlement, in 2013, the Service proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the Mono Basin sage grouse, along with a proposed designation of 1,868,017 acres of critical habitat (at a point at which the population had declined by up to 70 percent).

The preservation of this essential habitat along with the monitoring of this species is critical for the continued health of the California brown pelican population.

Wind farms are now encroaching into critical habitats of the Peregrine Falcon, Bald Eagles, Golden Eagle, Spotted Owls, Ferruginous Hawks, Great Gray Owl and along primary migration routes of all bird species.

The Beaufort's coastline along the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, meanwhile, is designated as critical habitat for that threatened species and is also a migration route for bowhead whales.

These rates are expected to increase over the coming century, imperiling the survival of 7,000 acres of freshwater tidal wetlands that protect riverfront communities and critical infrastructure from flooding and provide habitat for species on which commercial fisheries along the entire Atlantic coast depend.