Sentences with phrase «ecological region»

This site, developed by National Geographic and World Wildlife Fund, charts more than a thousand of our planet's diverse ecological regions with excellent interactive maps.

Other fun facts: The United States has a wider array of ecological regions, such as tundra and desert, than any other country, and the world's richest collections of freshwater mussels and salamanders.

To understand where interior forest has been lost and therefore where risks from forest fragmentation might be greatest, the researchers used global tree cover data to map the forests of 2000 and 2012 and examined the patterns of change across ecological regions and biomes.

The state of Texas has 10 distinct climatic regions and 11 distinct ecological regions, so it's hardly surprising that the second - largest state in the union boasts hundreds of distinct housing... more

Scenic Monterey County is one of the richest ecological regions along California's central coast, home to diverse species on land, in the air and at sea.

Cassie Denbow: The Hindu - Kush Himalayas (HKH) is one of the most diverse ecological regions in the world.

New York Bay is an ecological region that's still very lively despite all the infrastructure, so you can also imagine a lot of wildlife coming back into the drowned parts of the city.

The Amazon, the Andes, the Artic and the Gulf of Mexico are among the ecological regions explored.