Sentences with phrase «finding suitable habitats»

It can be challenging to find a suitable habitat for bald eagles in a city, but the advantage of an urban reintroduction, he says, is that more people can enjoy the birds and be educated by their presence.

Biological impacts will be determined by this plasticity and the resiliency of organisms to find suitable habitats.

Most are fruit bats: Insectivorous bats don't find suitable habitat in the city because they don't do well in the urban sprawl.

IPCC forecasts are for warming to occur faster than evolution is considered to occur, so impacts will be determined by this plasticity and the resiliency of affected organisms to find suitable habitats.

Not exact matches

«We found that on average, these rattlesnakes have shifted their suitable habitats over the last 320,000 years at a specific rate that is two to three orders of magnitude slower than how fast they will have to move to adapt over the next 90 to 100 years,» Lawing said.

The warming of the lake has reduced the suitable habitat for those species by 38 percent since the 1940s, the team found.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

Siler and colleagues found that current laws in the Philippines protect less than 10 % of existing habitats that are suitable for sailfin dragons.

Although the new species were found in South Florida, they will likely spread to North Florida and perhaps neighboring states because of widespread, suitable larval habitat, particularly water lettuce, he said.

After roving for approximately a Mars year (almost two Earth years) and sampling dust, sand, rocks and atmosphere at the Gale Crater landing site, Curiosity has found the strongest evidence to date that the very early Mars environment could have provided a suitable habitat for life as we know it.

Moving a colony of feral cats — and convincing them to stay — is a complex process involving specific procedures that start with finding a suitable new habitat or location, and must be followed without shortcuts if you want the cats to be safe and remain at the relocation site.

If even Bjorn Lomborg sees the merits of the world spending $ 100 billion a year to address global warming, is there anyone who can find a downside to raising a grand total of $ 35 million a year (beyond money already committed by national governments) to protect 42 «source sites» — areas of tiger territory with populations that are sufficiently healthy to repopulate neighboring regions with suitable, but tiger-less, habitat?

Its success isn't guaranteed in the new areas — the majestic raptor will still have to find suitable food and nesting habitat.