Sentences with phrase «diversity of species»

First, protected areas matter: the bigger the forest they live in, the higher the number and diversity of species, body sizes and diet types.

The Gulf is a spectacular space with an astonishing diversity of species, and yet

'' [The footage] shows the incredible diversity of species that can flourish once the proper protections are in place.

These findings show that climate change, whilst endangering many species, could also help to increase the genetic diversity of some species,» Twiss said.

Frogs can survive in oil palm plantations, but at the cost of diversity of species — and the impact can radiate out deep into neighboring forest ecosystems, according to a...

It offers large - scale aquatic habitats, diverse bottom topography, and a rich diversity of species and ecosystems in water in various climate zones that are found nowhere else.

Mountains provide some of the world's most spectacular landscapes and host an amazing diversity of species and habitat types.

(E - H) Diversity of species gains (future diversity with migration minus future diversity without migration) for the quarter species suffering the largest range contractions.

A team from the US reports in the journal Ecological Economics that they went beyond simple analysis of canopy loss in the Ecuadorian region of the Amazon basin to find out what compensation payments to landowners did for the diversity of species in the forests.

Preserving open spaces, ensuring clean air and water, protecting wildlife and maintaining the diversity of species for the benefit of future generations was, to be sure, important to the early conservationists.

From pure human self - interest we should value maintaining a rich diversity of species just so we can use what we learn from them to help ourselves.

It includes terrestrial and marine areas as well as large tidal flats, which are home to a great diversity of species and serve as resting places for rare migratory birds.

Biologists know that a healthy ecosystem requires a diversity of species, and every art student learns it as the first principle of design; a unified work of art is created through the harmonious combination of all its elements.

Addo Elephant National Park with its diversity of habitat biomes offers a real diversity of species across the Greater park area.

In the heart of Masailand, Selenkay Conservancy is an important dispersal area for wildlife moving in and out of Amboseli, and is home to a wide diversity of species.

There are places visitors can go to watch manatees roll around in the water, kayak tours to view nighttime bioluminescence activity, and sanctuaries where «birders» can climb towers and marvel at the great diversity of species.

Scuba divers and bird watchers flock to Belize because there are few places in the world that offer more diversity of species to observer than Belize.

From Costa Rica's rain forests to the beaches of Belize, from Baja's desert lagoons to tropical islands off the Yucatan, Mexico and Central America harbor a greater diversity of species than anywhere else on Earth.

Visitors experience an underwater world populated by a rich diversity of species including Read More

Activities within this National Park centre around providing the visitor with as up close and personal an experience of the African bushveld as possible with biking, hiking, walking or 4 × 4 safaris available, all accompanied by armed and trained guides to ensure your safety while you marvel at the diversity of species.

In our Journey with Gentle Giants experience, plunge into the depths of Ocean Voyager Built by The Home Depot, and come closer than ever before to a vast diversity of species from three different oceans.

Project Wildlife wants to give these animals a better chance of survival once they return to the wild, which at the same time helps to maintain the region's vast diversity of species.

Because of the diversity of species in this classic novel, bringing it to life on the screen has always presented a challenge.

Producing offspring is not the only purpose of online zoo dating, by carefully managing the breeding of the small number of animals in zoo programs, world zoos aim to retain 90 % of the genetic diversity of a species found in the wild over a 100 years.

After antibiotics numbers don't matter but diversity of species does.

Amidst the chaos, this zone harbours the highest diversity of species and nutrient density.

One such mystery is why animal phyla (groups of animals that share an evolutionary history) differ dramatically in the diversity of species they contain.

Plant from multiple species, seed sources, and climate zones, particularly from locally - adapted sources Manage to maintain genetic diversity and phenotypic plasticity Create opportunities for rapid natural selection for species with high predicted potential for adverse impacts from climate change (Sturrock et al. 2011; Erickson et al. 2012; Alfaro et al. 2014; FAO 2014) Plant drought tolerant and native species Retain diversity of species and promote legacy trees Manage or restore mosaic (variable pattern of species and ages) and maintain or improve landscape connectivity Plant in asynchronous rotations and manage for diverse age classes Thin, plant, and use prescribed fire to favor species adapted to disturbance (Millar et al. 2007; Vose et al. 2016; Keane et al. forthcoming)

This has led to an explosion of knowledge about microbiomes, as scientists use these tools to catalog the stunning diversity of species that inhabit the planet and study their genes.

«Biology has an incredible diversity of species, which can provide us new design cues and synthetic routes to the next generation of advanced materials for light - weight automobiles, aircraft and other structural applications,» Kisailus said.

To say that societies before the Industrial Revolution had little effect on the environment or diversity of species is mistaken, argues the paper.

Around the same time, Shahid Naeem, director of Columbia University's Earth Institute Center for Environmental Sustainability in New York City, was also looking beyond species numbers to study ecosystem function, zeroing in on the diversity of species at different levels of the food web.

In the future, David Legg intends to further his research and study fossilised creatures from the Ordovician, the geological period that saw the largest increase in diversity of species on the planet.

In the 19th century, scientists were competing to explain the marvelous diversity of species on the earth, and not everybody bought into Charles Darwin's ideas about evolution through natural selection.

Genetic tradeoffs, in part, explain the rich diversity of species on earth.

But once all these pieces were in place to form the archetypal bird skeleton, birds then evolved rapidly, eventually leading to the great diversity of species we know today.»

«What's new here,» Zavaleta says, «is reminding us that it's not just important to protect a diversity of species but also important to protect the mosaic of habitat patches in a landscape.»

In fact, many experts agree that the virus should not be called «canine distemper» virus at all, given the diversity of species it infects.

Your story about the diversity of species on organic and non-organic farms mentioned the long history of intensive farming in...

If a dominant species can thrive in a warmer environment and wipe out other species, climate change could significantly reduce the diversity of species in our lakes as well.

With the aim of studying the history and genetic diversity of the species, analysis was conducted on the genomes of another ten Iberian lynxes from Doñana and Sierra Morena, the only two surviving populations on the Iberian Peninsula, which have been isolated from each other for decades.

Yet ecosystems harbor a dazzling diversity of species.

Scientists assumed lichenization had arisen independently many times, because of the diversity of species that form lichens and also because many branches of the fungus family tree have both lichenized and nonlichenized species.

The diversity of species he has found is extremely unusual.

The Gull Chick Principle Other rules of aesthetics besides peak shift can also be invoked to explain the astonishing diversity of species.

«Entire branches of the bacterial family tree have evolved motors with different torques, leading to a diversity of species each geared to their own environment,» said Dr Beeby.

Caribbean coral morphology documents that most coral evolution did not occur at the center of diversity of a species» range.

The results will better inform breeding and crossbreeding programmes to improve cattle productivity and resilience in sub-Saharan Africa and crucially preserve the genetic diversity of the species.

«Critically endangered species successfully reproduced using frozen sperm from ferret dead for 20 years: Genetic diversity of the species significantly increased providing fresh hope for the future survival of this near - extinct species.»

As a result, these species will migrate to cooler regions or deeper waters, ecosystems will be disrupted, and the diversity of species will decline.