Sentences with phrase «effect on bird»

> Okey doke; let's agree that windpower is a good thing, generally, that it's desirable that engineering solutions be sought to (further) minimize and certainly monitor the effect on bird life — especially raptors — and that the «cats kill more birds than wind turbines» argument isn't a stellar example of a well - reasoned scientific argument addressing a legit scientific concern.

Recent research suggests that collisions with buildings and communication towers have no significant effect on bird populations.

The key result of the study is that with longer dry seasons and more intense seasonal drought, there is an overall negative effect on bird populations.

A three - year study in Denmark concentrated on the non-crop habitats, such as hedgerows, of conventional and organic farms and their effects on bird populations.

The researchers also found that conservation management practices seem to have the strongest effect on the birds, Sandercock said.

According to the agency, studies have shown that the chemical, chlorfenapyr, is «persistent in the environment and causes severe effects on bird reproduction.»

Because Huntington's is determined by a single gene, Liu was able to easily isolate its effects on the birds.

Shifting to renewable energy sources has been widely touted as one of the best ways to fight climate change, but even renewable energy can have a downside, as in the case of wind turbines» effects on bird populations.

The research team, comprising Dr Jake Bicknell, Dr Matthew Struebig and Dr Zoe Davies, discovered that RIL had very little effect on the birds, bats and large mammals in the rainforests of Central Guyana.

In addition, they are carrying out similar studies to measure the effects on bird populations of «conventional» pollutants such as pesticides and other heavy metals, as well as new molecules such as perfluorinated compounds that are also accumulating in the Antarctic.

(The Condor: Ornithological Applications, May 6, 2015)-- Shifting to renewable energy sources has been widely touted as one of the best ways to fight climate change, but even renewable energy can have a downside, as in the case of wind turbines» effects on bird populations.

According to a new study from the UK, outdoor cats have an effect on birds even if the cat is not actually hunting.

We focussed on the possible effect on birds as this is the taxonomic group for which cat management is most widely discussed by the national media in the UK.

We recommend the Catwatch ultrasonic cat deterrent, since it is proven to have no effect on birds.

Shifting to renewable energy sources has been widely touted as one of the best ways to fight climate change, but even renewable energy can have a downside, as in the case of wind turbines» effects on bird populations.

If «helter - skelter» applies to any energy source, it is wind turbines, reflecting their Charles Manson effect on birds.

Not exact matches

Trans Mountain identified the WTP [Westridge Tunnel Portal] site as a priority for the Project and indicated that approval by 15 February 2018 would allow sufficient time for the WTP site clearing activities, estimated to take four to six weeks, to be completed prior to the migratory bird restrictions which come into effect on 26 March 2018.

Research studies in Europe and the United States of America (on farm and pilot trials) on the effects of farming systems on beneficial invertebrates and birds consistently shows a better performance of the organic system.

The effects of organic agriculture on faunal biodiversity have been studied particularly for soil fauna and for birds.

The birds, pollinators, land mammals, and marine mammals in Massachusetts have already started feeling the effects of climate change on their habitats and life cycles.

A comprehensive look at the projected effects of our changing climate on our nesting birds by 2050.

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Deer can have a significant effect on woodland biodiversity including ground flora, small mammals and bird communities.

MINNEAPOLIS — Pesticides that kill insects can also have short - term effects on seed - eating birds.

The worrisome study of birds, published in July in the journal Nature, focused on the effect of imidacloprid, the most popular neonicotinoid, on 15 species.

«The radical - pair mechanism of magnetoreception is still just a hypothesis, and arguably the best evidence we have for it so far is the effect of time - dependent radiofrequency magnetic fields on the ability of migratory birds to detect the direction of the Earth's magnetic field,» says senior author Peter Hore, an Oxford biophysical chemist specializing in magnetic influences on chemical reactions.

These vectors — for instance, birds — also face climate effects and can alter exposure patterns in humans depending on when and how they cross paths.

Mortelliti, whose lab research focuses on the effects of land - use change on mammals and birds, will focus on the northward movement of plant species as temperature increases.

This work suggests that the management of neighborhoods and cities can have effects on biodiversity that extend from trees and birds all the way to the bug life in bedrooms and basements.

«If you only consider local birds in an environmental assessment, you're not really evaluating the effect that facility may have on the entire population,» Katzner said.

Those questions include possible effects on different organisms, from plants to earthworms to birds to people, Rochman says.

Worldwide, such facilities have been responsible for the deaths of 140,000 to 328,000 birds and 500,000 to 1.6 million bats, raising questions about their effects on population sustainability.

Antibodies against the common flu blunt bird flu's effects on mice, but how to enhance the protection in people is unclear

While the benefits to the bird species of having alligators nearby are well - documented, few studies have explored the effect on the protector, the alligator.

I'd love to find out the effects on the frog's predators — on birds, coyotes and fish,» she says.

The researchers — led by Brett Sandercock, professor of biology — discovered that wind turbines have little effect on greater prairie chickens, and that these grassland birds are more affected by rangeland management practices and by the availability of native prairie and vegetation cover at nest sites.

Several rare upland bird species are being put at risk together with other ecosystem functions by the effects of climate change on the UK's blanket bogs, ecologists at the University of York have discovered.

«There are several species of cooperatively breeding birds where helper numbers or helper effort seems to have negligible effect on offspring survival, and that just didn't make any sense.»

The effects of waste on larger animals, including birds with stomachs full of plastic, have garnered significant attention, he says, but «when you start altering [whole] populations,... that's when you get these true impacts.»

A study of colonies of a diving bird on the Spanish coast shows the lingering effect during at least the first 10 years after the 2002 Prestige disaster

«We don't know how many tree sparrows there are in China but the size of the consignment underlines the volumes of birds being sold — and it must have some effect on wild populations.»

But Le Maho observed that although most of the mortality among banded birds occurred in the first 5 years of the study, the effects on foraging lasted for a full decade.

It was eggshell thinning that devastated fish - eating birds and birds of prey, says Fry, and this effect is well documented in a report (pdf) on DDT published in 2002 by the Department of Health and Human Services» Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR).

«Rachel was right about the drastic effect DDT was having on populations of birds, fish, and other wildlife,» Robbins says.

I particularly liked the chapters on «dangerous journeys» (a look at the threats to migrating birds) and «light effects» (the problems of comparing birds in the field to pictures in books), both being well presented and illustrated.

Ellen Gryniewicz wanted to know what effect a gene drive — engineered mosquito might have on the bats and birds that eat the insect.

«Previous studies have shown that genetics have an effect on the telomere length in individual birds.

The net effect pushes the bird into the incline so that its feet don't slip — akin to spoilers on a race car.

BCD02 has an effect on skin pigmentation in birds, with one form associated with white or grey skin, and another associated with yellow skin in well - fed chickens.

Using data on all the ultralight - trained birds» spring and fall migrations from 2002 to 2009, the researchers found that neither genetic relatedness nor gender had any effect on the whooping cranes» tendency to stay on the shortest migratory route.