Sentences with phrase «ecoregion in»

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.

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.»

Not exact matches

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).

«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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Green Mountain National Forest is a national forest located in Vermont, a forest area typical of the New England / Acadian forests ecoregion.

My most immediate response is that Trichosurus arnhemensis is found in 7 different ecoregions (Arnhem Land tropical savanna, Carnarvon xeric shrublands, Carpentaria tropical savanna, Kimberly tropical savanna, Pilbara shrublands, Victoria Plains tropical savanna, Western Australian Mulga shrublands) which include hundreds of thousands of square kilometres of some extremely isolated land in Australia.

Tropical rainforests in all three ecoregions (South America, Africa and Asia) show some level of resilience to climate change, although the Amazon basin is relatively the most vulnerable.

M. Davis et al., «New England — Acadian Forests,» in Taylor H. Ricketts et al., eds., Terrestrial Ecoregions of North America: A Conservation Assessment (Washington, DC: Island Press, 1999); David R. Foster, «Harvard Forest: Addressing Major Issues in Policy Debates and in the Understanding of Ecosystem Process and Pattern,» LTER Network News: The Newsletter of the Long Term Ecological Network, spring / summer 1996; U.S. Forest Service, «2006 Forest Health Highlights,» various state sheets, at fhm.fs.fed.us, viewed 2 August 2007.

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

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.

Deserts support on the order of 10 people per km2, in sparse populations with among the lowest gross domestic product (GDP) of all ecoregions (Reid et al., 2005).

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