Sentences with phrase «endangered plants found»

The following is the list of 14 federally threatened or endangered plants found in Channel Islands National Park.

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These findings are on the one hand relevant for the risk assessment of the transgenic plants: once released, these plants could spread to other rice varieties and endanger rice harvest.

Semi-natural habitats are refuges for endangered plant species which in former times were found in meadows and arable fields.

Others say Niger Delta harbours many locally and globally endangered species, and approximately 6080 percent of all plant and animal species found in Nigeria.

Eisner and his colleague Jerrold Meinwald, a chemist at Cornell, have also found new nerve drugs in millipedes, cardiac stimulants in fireflies, and cockroach repellents in an endangered mint plant.

The team calculated how the current evolutionary diversity of Halle's flora would change if, firstly, the plants found in Halle listed on the Red List of endangered species disappeared and, secondly, the most common introduced species in Germany which are not yet found in Halle were to migrate there.

Possingham recently analyzed endangered animals and plants in New Zealand and found that for the same budget required to save a single bird species there, the North Island brown kiwi, six other threatened species could be protected.

Now — after a long search turned up a «pathetic, wilted» third specimen — a University of Utah botanist and her colleagues identified the spiny plant as a new, possibly endangered species and named it «from the heart» in Latin because it was found in Valentine, Texas, population 134 in 2010.

Based on these findings, the researchers argue that I. araguaiaensis should be considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, an organization that assesses whether plants and animals are endangered.

Mingzhen Lu, first Princeton author and a graduate student in Hedin's research group, said that if root traits do in fact determine a plant's ability to withstand a particular environment, these findings could be valuable in conserving endangered species or projecting how plants might adapt to climate change.

High levels of noise pollution were also found in critical habitat for endangered species, namely in endangered plant and insect habitats.

The first specimen was found in 1974 and the second in 1990, but over the years, the plant was wrongly assigned to three different Solanum species before a study led by University of Utah botanist Lynn Bohs identified it as an entirely new but likely endangered species.

When I looked it up, this butterfly looks to be the same species, still endangered and only found in the Willamette Valley, at sites that include its preferred host plant, the (also) threatened Kincaid's lupine.

We also found several Hawaiian Silverswords, a rare and endangered plant that could only be found in certain areas like Haleakala.

A variety of exotic animal and plant species that are endangered by extinction can be found in this beautiful, diverse park.

Learn how biologists managed to bring back the endangered Short - Tail Albatross to nest on the atoll; meet Wisdom, a Laysan albatross who has been nesting on Midway for nearly 60 years; find out the strategies being used to eradicate invasive plant and animal species; discover the beauty of endangered Monk seals, sea turtles, spinner dolphins, corals and so much more.

Despite concluding in 2009 that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, a finding that triggered their regulation under the 1970 Clean Air Act, it has taken years for the administration to take on the nation's fleet of power plants.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been doing its job, as required by the Clean Air Act, ever since, including finding that carbon emissions from motor vehicles and power plants «cause or contribute to air pollution, which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.»

His growing list of executive orders and regulatory reviews is rapidly reversing eight years of Obama «Clean Power Plan,» «social cost of carbon,» and other regulatory decrees; laying the foundation for reversing the EPA's absurd finding that plant - fertilizing carbon dioxide «endangers» human health and welfare; and putting the United States in a position to lead the world back from the brink of Paris pact pandemonium and wealth redistribution.

Approximately 370 bird species, including the critically endangered Rufous - necked Hornbill, have been found in the region and of the current global estimate of 13,500 plant species, approximately 7,000 are found in the Hukaung Valley and nowhere else on the planet.

The story may sound familiar to many operators of industrial facilities: the nuclear power plant started operation and then found the endangered crocodiles had made a nest in their canals.