Sentences with phrase «direct loss of habitat»
Causeways and other roads that bisect wetlands alter natural habitats by providing avenues by which invasive plants species can colonize wetlands and nesting areas, altering natural hydrology of wetland systems, altering storm water runoff and drainage, providing avenues for road salts and pollutants and the direct loss of habitat due to land - clearing and paving.
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«A lot of people think the loss or degradation of habitat is the big threat to wild animals, but here it shows there is a major threat from direct exploitation by humans,» Ripple says.
Slowing deforestation yields direct benefits like slowing soil erosion, the destruction of natural habitats, and loss of biodiversity.
Slowing deforestation yields direct benefits such as slowing soil erosion, the destruction of natural habitats, and reducing loss of biodiversity.
A wide range of human activities affect marine biodiversity both in direct ways, such as exploitation by fisheries, habitat loss due to dredging, filling, and other construction influences, fishing gear impacts, and pollution, and in less direct ways, including effects of global change resulting in acidification, warmer waters, and coastal inundation.