Sentences with word «ecoregion»

The Santa Cruz Islands lie just north of the archipelago of Vanuatu, and are considered part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion.

Coal mining has progressively changed from predominantly underground mining to surface mining [143], including mountaintop removal with valley fill, which is now widespread in the Appalachian ecoregion in the United States.

There has been a global, 30 - year increase in surface mining (1), which is now the dominant driver of land - use change in the central Appalachian ecoregion of the United States (2).

To conserve habitat in terrestrial ecoregions and stop deforestation is a goal widely shared by many groups with a wide variety of motivations.

Guadalupe shares the California chaparral and woodlands ecoregion with the Channel Islands of California in the United States, but the island was at one time practically denuded of all plants higher than a few centimeters by up to 100,000 [note 1] feral goats.

«This listing will hopefully provide additional leverage to look more closely at those decisions,» said Margaret Williams, director of the Bering Sea ecoregion program at the World Wildlife Federation.

Survival of Barents Sea polar bears during low - ice years does not require emigration to another sea ice ecoregion or even another subpopulation area.

Map also shows EEZ boundaries, state boundaries, international boundaries, marine ecoregions, and marine protected areas.

In the Virginian ecoregion, stratification and surface warming begin earlier in the year, and summer temperatures exceed 20 °C for many months [26].

Regardless of purpose, however, the term fishery generally refers to a fishing effort centered on either a particular ecoregion or a particular species or type of fish or aquatic animal, and usually fisheries are differentiated by both criteria.

In 2100, the number of matching ecoregions will increase to nine, increasing the number of known harmful species with connections to Svalbard more than sixfold.

«The conclusion of the study indicates that there is a statistically significant relationship between fire and same - summer droughts in most regions, while antecedent climate conditions play a relatively minor role, except in few specific ecoregions.

For example, last September Possingham, Kerrie Wilson (a biologist at the University of Queensland), and a team of researchers assessed the cost and outcomes of various conservation actions in 39 «Mediterranean» ecoregions identified by the World Wildlife Foundation (WWF).

The word is used widely by the locals to describe ecoregion of montane rainforests, and translates as «warm valley» in English.

For instance, the second module of the book, «Classifying the World: The Animal Kingdom,» provides students with opportunities to work with real - world data in three separate activities using visualizations of data about ecoregions and animal habitats.

Mongolia / Russia • The landscapes of Dauria, an example of the Daurian Steppe ecoregion, which extends from eastern Mongolia into Russian Siberia and northeastern China, including grassland, forest, lakes and wetlands that serve as habitats for rare species of fauna.

The islands form the Macaronesia ecoregion with the Azores, Cape Verde, Madeira, and the Savage Isles.

The islands bordering the Scotia Sea are rocky and partly covered in ice and snow year round; despite these harsh conditions, however, the islands do support vegetation and have been described as the Scotia Sea Islands tundra ecoregion, which includes South Georgia, the volcanic South Sandwich Islands, and the South Orkneys in the Scotia Sea, as well as the remote South Shetland Islands near the Antarctic Peninsula and the small isolated volcano called Bouvet Island.

[2] This species is endemic to the coastal sage and chaparral ecoregion in the U.S. state of California.

Meanwhile sanctuaries such as the La Tovara National Park and mangrove ecoregion in San Blas is «one of the most important winter habitats for birds in the Pacific, home to 80 % of the Pacific migratory shore bird populations.»

``... all GCMs project extensive winter sea ice through the end of the 21st century in most ecoregions (Durner et al. 2009).»

Because this is a large region, various ways have been proposed for dividing it ecologically, from a few large ecosystems to many smaller ecoregions (e.g., [243], [244], [245]-RRB-.

[19] Summer fogs, moderate precipitation, and mild temperatures are characteristic of Northern California coastal forests ecoregion and are vital to the growth of local Coast Redwood.

Figure 8 - 3: Ecoregions for North America (courtesy of R.A. Washington - Allen / ORNL), based on data provided by the National Geophysical Data Center.

Note the thick ice in the CAA — what USGS experts call the «Archipelago» sea ice ecoregion (denoted by white in the map), indicating ice about 1 metre thick (2 - 3 feet)-- expected to remain at the height of summer in 2030.

Coal mining has progressively changed from predominantly underground mining to surface mining [143], including mountaintop removal with valley fill, which is now widespread in the Appalachian ecoregion in the United States.

The Solomon Islands archipelago is part of two distinct terrestrial ecoregions.

The vessels had connections to four ecoregions with similar environmental conditions.

Today, the Barents Sea ecoregion is suffering the strongest sea ice retreat ever measured; and these changes are suspected to modify food access and thus diet of several species.

The program currently supports grantees working to: create international protections for species and ecoregions of the High Seas; educate scientists and the public about the value and vulnerability of the ocean as a world system; and foment civil society movements to protect Arctic waters and Arctic coastal communities.

View maps showing land use, recent development, protection, and ecological impact are available by town, county, ecoregion, watershed, and regional planning association (RPA).

A recent report by the United Nations Environment Programme said that between 1982 and 2006, the average annual mean temperature in the region increased by 1.5 C, with an average increase of 0.06 C per year although, said the report, «the rate of warming varies across seasons and ecoregions.»

The ecoregions ranged from forested mountains to warm deserts and grasslands.

The researchers divided the region into nine distinct «ecoregions,» areas that had similar climate and vegetation.

Looking at the ecoregions more closely, the authors found that the rise in fire activity was the strongest in certain regions of the United States: across the Rocky Mountains, Sierra Nevada and Arizona - New Mexico mountains; the southwest desert in California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and parts of Texas; and the southern plains across western Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas and eastern Colorado.

Using this data, the app uses the data to provide initial search locations and has filters for ecoregion and terrain.

Under baseline conditions, WUE was negatively correlated with precipitation across all ecosystem classes and ecoregions.»

Most of the islands are part of the Solomon Islands rain forests ecoregion, which also includes the islands of Bougainville and Buka; these forests have come under pressure from forestry activities.

Redwood forests are interspersed with several other plant communities throughout this ecoregion.

The Santa Cruz Islands are part of the Vanuatu rain forests ecoregion, together with the neighbouring archipelago of Vanuatu.

Although the waters and islands are in two countries, many of the ecoregion, habitat, conservation, and ecological issues are shared.

It is part of the Northern California coastal forests ecoregion and has 23,600 acres (96 km2) of old - growth forests.

A paradise for bird enthusiasts, this ecoregion has the highest concentration of migratory birds and features over 250 species of birds, including the black - bellied tree duck, great blue heron, roseate spoonbill, and endemic birds, including the bumblebee hummingbird and the Mexican woodnymph.