Sentences with phrase «ecoregions of»

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.

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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

«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).

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.

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.

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.

[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.

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

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

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

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.

``... 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).

Only 18 percent of the world's ecoregions have MPA coverage greater than 10 percent, including a number of very large MPAs, such as the Great Barrier Reef.

Approximately half of all ecoregions have less than one percent of their oceans under MPA coverage, and 21 have no MPAs at all.