Sentences with phrase «different habitats as»

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They also function as habitat cross-links between meadows, fallows and different field margins.

As campers explore our outdoor wetland, woodland, and prairie habitats, they will act as detectives to solve their own nature questions, decipher how different plants and animals survive, and discover the many interactions that occur in naturAs campers explore our outdoor wetland, woodland, and prairie habitats, they will act as detectives to solve their own nature questions, decipher how different plants and animals survive, and discover the many interactions that occur in naturas detectives to solve their own nature questions, decipher how different plants and animals survive, and discover the many interactions that occur in nature.

«Our students will read different books on topics such as animals in their habitats.

And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a few years ago in its fourth assessment in 2007, said to the Europeans — but it could have been to the Americans for that matter in a different context — Europeans if you care for your songbirds, as Europeans really do, look to Africa and how African habitats are doing: 84 percent of the migratory birds in the world are vulnerable to climate change.

MPA rules vary, but may have restrictions on human uses such as fishing, habitat alteration, or oil and gas extraction in order to protect different ecosystems.

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

The evolutionary history of our dentition teaches us something different: natural tooth wear as an inevitable consequence of chewing food and habitat accompanying human evolution since ancient times.

Trapping and handling hundreds of woodrats (also known as packrats), the scientists found that the two species are highly associated with different habitat types, though they may live within meters of each other along the boundary.

Threats to wildlife survival, such as habitat loss and climate change, tend to strike some species harder than others, and the threat of chytrid, a deadly amphibian fungus, appears to be no different.

In habitats rich in different species, pests don't become resistant to chemical control agents as quickly.

It could be due to environmental change, or perhaps mammals had acquired a «critical mass» of «key innovations» — such as live birth, hot bloodedness, and fur — that enabled them to thrive in different habitats and diversify ecologically,» said Dr Close.

One way of understanding such divergent transformations is to view each organism as a machine, adapted to a different habitat and function.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

Spawning, as well as larval and juvenile development, will often occur in different habitats, and little was known about what the impact of changes in those environments is having on fish development, according to Harvey Walsh, a fisheries biologist at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center at the Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island.

As cities are vastly different to natural habitats, and contain many new types of food, boldness is likely to be a very useful trait for urban birds to have.

Another study looking at lizard family trees will test whether these patterns might play a role in evolution on a larger scale: By giving lizards protection as they move around, stripes may allow them to explore different habitats, increasing the speed at which new species appear.

Because the newly created genetic resource is so broad, representing distantly related rice species that have evolved in habitats throughout Asia, Africa, South America, and Australia, it enables researchers to zero - in on valuable sequences that have been preserved as the plants adapted to different growing conditions.

It's becoming clear and clearer as people look at different stages of the plant's growth and in different habitats growing next to other plants that the stressors in the environment can really change the chemistry; because most of the medicinal compounds in the plants are what are called secondary compounds, so they are not things essential to the metabolism of the plant like sugar and water and ATP for energy and DNA.

The study identifies such climate change refugia based on the amount of natural habitat present and the risk that regions shift to a different type of natural vegetation due to climate change — a phenomenon known as «biome shift».

Professor Poinar continues, «Mammoths were much better at adapting to new habitats than we first thought — we suspect that subgroups of mammoths evolved to deal with local conditions, but maintained genetic continuity by encountering and potentially interbreeding with each other where their two different habitats met, such as at the edge of glaciers and ice sheets.»

Indeed, the species which evolved exhibit innumerable combinations of colours and are adapted to different habitats, such as sandy bottoms, rocky shores or open waters — ranging from the clear shallows to the permanent darkness of the turbid depths.

Assisted adaptation — often defined as management to assist gene flow or selection for specific genetic traits — may be a more useful tool than assisted migration whereby a species is deliberately moved to a different habitat; carefully consider implications of either action Identify potential climate refugia to focus restoration efforts Plant a mix of seeds genetically selected and adapted to likely future and current conditions (McLachlan et al. 2007; McKenney et al. 2009; Aitken and Whitlock 2013; Alfaro et al. 2014)

Each country, although different in culture and history, shares snow leopard habitat characteristics such as mountains with steep slopes dotted by rocky bluffs, ridges broken by outcrops, and valleys interrupted by cliffs.

Researchers found that due to warming waters, the edge of the sharks» range could shift as much as 40 miles poleward per decade, pushing the sharks away from the warming oceans near the equator into different habitats.

It uses factsheets, a multiple choice quiz and a variety of activity ideas to help pupils learn about different species of dolphins, their habitats, our responsibility as citizens and how dolphins and their environment might be protected.

A collection of photos from my travels to different oceans and seas around the world, which I have used with my students on topics such as habitats and ecosystems, but also on water, pollution, and forces.

You can protect your rabbits, guinea pigs, and other little furballs from summer scorchers by applying many of the same principles as for cats and dogs - adapting for small animals» different habitats.

They can be found in many different habitats such as deserts, mountain ranges, forests, prairies, and even along the coast.

From a conservation point of view, as planned, the reef has now evolved into an attractive coral reef and is the habitat for over 24 different species of fish.

We encounter many different habitats on this trip, such as savannah, open farmland, and subtropical forest around the lake.

From the river boat you will see, huge crocodiles up - close in their natural habitat, up to 50 different kinds of exotic birds, such as the brilliantly colored scarlet macaw, black and green iguanas, Jesus Christ lizards, monkeys, anteaters, and other jungle wildlife, tropical mangrove forests, a breathtaking crocodile feeding show!

This bluebird is just as «western» as the Western Bluebird, but the two species occupy different habitats in summer.

The scientists made 12 experimental ecosystems in the laboratory — representing different habitats — with photosynthesising plants, grazing invertebrates such as shrimps, and fish that ate shrimps.

But I do know from examining different microclimates, that it highly likely that most of those differences are due to how weather reacts with different habitats, and just because you describe the problem as a «a slew of other known instrumentation and record - keeping issues», does nt mean those issues are predominate.

«The results also highlight the lack of connectivity between different habitats on a single reef, such as shallow and deep water, which has important implications under future climate change scenarios, as coral reefs will be largely dependent on neighbouring areas for their recovery.»

Preferred habitat: thickets, open woods, near streams + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: dormant to semievergreen + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay + + + + Light conditions: dappled shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 1 to 2 feet + + + + Wildlife value: hummingbirds love nectar as well as many different butterflies; attracts Cloudless Sulphurs

However, we demonstrated that there is specialisation of the coral host to particular reef environments, with each strain of coral host associating only with particular types of symbiotic algae... the results also highlight the lack of connectivity between different habitats on a single reef, such as shallow and deep water, which has important implications under future climate change scenarios, as coral reefs will be largely dependent on neighbouring areas for their recovery.