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A study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences May 11 provides evidence for the prevalent hypothesis that these fluctuations are linked with climate shifts that result in changes in seed production in these species» boreal forest habitat in northern Canada.

Not exact matches

The most significant shortcoming in the Plan may be that it allows for significant continued industrial logging in already excessively disturbed critical habitat for woodland caribou in the boreal forest.

The Plan merely calls on forestry companies operating in caribou ranges to prepare spatial harvest sequences within their Forest Management Plans to meet caribou habitat requirements, and states that Alberta Forestry may impose additional terms and conditions into harvesting plans and operating ground rules (at pp 49 - 52).

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

Most of this loss is due to the destruction of habitats such as forests, especially those in the tropics.

Today the cry of the poor in the Narmada Valley in India is not only to preserve their own habitat but to protect forests everywhere from wanton destruction.

The monarch butterfly, which winters in the forests of Michoacán (the state where many avocados are grown), could potentially be put at risk, along with other plants and animals in the habitat.

Increase forest cover with native species in degraded areas, improve the climate resiliency of coffee plants as a result of restoring tree cover, and enhance habitat value in the coffee - growing landscape.

Located in Bolivia's eastern lowlands, the concession covers an area the size of Rhode Island and its forests provide habitat to tapirs, giant otters, and pumas.

Bob Norman, general manager of GreenPalm, said: «It's in your lipstick, your hand cream, your shaving gel and the stuff you use to wash your clothes — and it could be destroying rain forests, removing apes» habitats and driving forest communities from their homes.»

Research has shown that in the Dominican Republic, shade coffee farms had more males than females [3,5], indicating that shade coffee farms were a good substitute for tall forest habitats.

Companies and their customers can choose palm oil that's been grown in a sustainable way — meaning no more forests and other important habitats are destroyed, and the rights of workers and local communities are respected.

According to the World Resources Institute, an ecosystem is made up of the organisms of a particular habitat, such as a farm or forest, together with the physical landscape in which they live.

In general, the palm oil industry has been linked to deforestation, habitat degradation, climate change, animal cruelty and indigenous rights abuses as the land and forests must be cleared for development of plantations.

(citation needed) Shaded Kona cultivation systems show greater biodiversity than full - sun systems, and those more distant from continuous forest compare rather poorly to undisturbed native forest in terms of habitat value for some bird species.

The Plantation: A small - scale reproduction of a tropical forest which features cocoa trees — where chocolate professionals can be immersed in the world of cocoa and see cocoa fruits in a natural habitat.

That they are endangered in many places in Central America, but Belize has the healthiest population of jaguars in the region because Belize has so much intact forest; there is a habitat for them.

Based on a plan drawn up free of charge by a Seattle architecture firm, the new zoo maintains the intimacy of the old zoo — a rustic place with dusty paths, teetering structures and the occasional mango tree in bloom — while enabling people to see animals in their natural habitats: paca in river forest, pumas in pineland, jaguarundi at the forest edge.

The wood is responsibly found and sourced so that there will be no impact on animal's natural habitat in forests.

With that they hope to restore a large chunk of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil, which is critical habitat and a prominent carbon sink.

During this engaging program students will listen to a guided imagery story while sitting in a natural setting; learn the life cycle of a bird through imaginary play and determine what makes a good home for specific native animals as they explore and compare the resources available in forest and field habitats.

Mass Audubon promotes conservation of our forest resources, including old growth reserves, for wildlife habitat and public benefit and for the capture of carbon from the atmosphere in forest growth and soils.

Originally hailing from Delaware, Jeff attended graduate school at UMass Amherst, where he investigated the winter habitat of the migratory Golden - winged Warbler as well as the role of alternative coffee farming in the conservation of forest bird species in Costa Rica.

As farms disappear and forests return, the large swaths of hay fields and similar habitats that bobolink require for breeding and raising young continue to shrink in size and number.

To make a difference in your community, get involved with protecting forests, farmlands, water resources, and wildlife habitat.

Spreading across more than 700 acres in Easthampton and Northampton along the western bank of the oxbow, the wildlife sanctuary offers visitors a range of landscapes and habitats attractive to birds, from marshes and meadows to grasslands and forest.

These early successional habitats require some form of disturbance, or in most parts of Massachusetts they will slowly succeed to forest.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

The competition encourages participants to reveal the Commonwealth's natural wonders, large and small: birds and other animals in their habitats, lush forests and fields, and people enjoying the outdoors.

Mass Audubon successfully conserves additional land all the time — from stands of old growth forest in the Berkshires to coastal habitats on the Cape and islands to the precious salt marsh of the North Shore — and every type of habitat in between.

In the curving gallery's big floor - to - ceiling habitats you can see animals that live in the river, on the floodplain forest floor and even up in the canopy — together — in a portrayal of the most diverse and complex freshwater ecosystem in the worlIn the curving gallery's big floor - to - ceiling habitats you can see animals that live in the river, on the floodplain forest floor and even up in the canopy — together — in a portrayal of the most diverse and complex freshwater ecosystem in the worlin the river, on the floodplain forest floor and even up in the canopy — together — in a portrayal of the most diverse and complex freshwater ecosystem in the worlin the canopy — together — in a portrayal of the most diverse and complex freshwater ecosystem in the worlin a portrayal of the most diverse and complex freshwater ecosystem in the worlin the world.

«Usually, several species of wildlife live in a forest habitat, due to their biological traits like life history, strategy and diet, and their responses to livestock introduction are different too,» said Zhang, who also is an associate professor at China West Normal University.

In the long term, the species requires more habitat, which perhaps could be accomplished by making the adjacent federal land in Siuslaw National Forest suitable for martenIn the long term, the species requires more habitat, which perhaps could be accomplished by making the adjacent federal land in Siuslaw National Forest suitable for martenin Siuslaw National Forest suitable for martens.

Furthermore, B. nipponica adults have intrinsic traits that may facilitate their actions as dispersal agents for this mycoheterotrophic herb: (1) their abundance in the plant habitat; (2) they are ground - dwelling, which means they defecate on the forest floor where M. humile's fungal partners, Russulaceae, reside; and (3) the long transit times of seeds through their gut (3 - 10 h) providing occasional long - distance seed dispersal.

But more than 40 percent of the land - dwelling animals that live in mangrove forests are now under pressure from habitat loss, concludes an analysis published this week in BioScience.

Hurricane Katrina destroyed the habitat of breeding colonies in Louisiana's Pearl River Basin, for instance, but bird numbers held steady, researchers noted in the journal Forest Ecology and Management.

However, there could be a silver lining in that degraded forests, once considered unsuitable, may actually be a suitable habitat for the apes.

Funded by the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi, this study examined how blackbuck reacted to the costs and benefits of living in this habitat.

According to a report from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), released this week at the International Marine Conservation Congress in Washington DC, shellfish reefs are the world's most imperilled marine habitats — faring worse than coral reefs and mangrove forests.

Poaching and habitat loss have reduced forest elephant populations in Central Africa by 63 percent since 2001.

Carolina Soto Navarro, one of the EDGE scientists on the expedition, says the goal is to «find out how the different bat species in this forest partition their use of the habitat, and exactly how far they go from Cueva la Barca».

Populations of forests elephants, which play key roles in maintaining forest habitat, have declined 63 percent in Central Africa since 2001.

«We posited that giant kelp fed herbivores in the system and provided structure and habitat for predators, and that it was fed upon by sea urchins and affected the understory communities of algae and sessile invertebrates in the kelp forest,» said lead author Robert Miller, a research biologist in UCSB's Marine Science Institute (MSI).

Moving forward, Lutter and Dayer will further explore the experiences of landowners in programs to manage young forest in an effort to understand what causes some of them to manage habitat after incentives from conservation programs have ended.

The CEAP assessment, led by Jeffery Larkin, professor of biology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania and forest bird habitat coordinator with the American Bird Conservancy, evaluates the effectiveness of young forest management in creating quality habitat for the golden - winged warbler and other wildlife species.

Also in January, the nonprofit group Reptile & Amphibian Ecology International (RAEI) announced that an expedition to the rain forests of coastal Ecuador had found new reptiles, insects, and amphibians whose habitat is threatened by climate change and deforestation.

The battle is over a comparably ancient and cherished habitat: old - growth stands in the managed forest, particularly those rich in spruce.

In addition, the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Southwest Uganda is also affected by the drier climate and the Bwindi Forest is the last habitat of the mountain gorillIn addition, the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Southwest Uganda is also affected by the drier climate and the Bwindi Forest is the last habitat of the mountain gorillin Southwest Uganda is also affected by the drier climate and the Bwindi Forest is the last habitat of the mountain gorilla.

Overhunting has been disastrous for elephants, but their forest habitats have also been caught in the crossfire.

However, microbe diversity did not vary by forest type in the other three species, suggesting that variation was instead due to factors intrinsic to individual species and their habitats.