Sentences with phrase «forest habitats»

«These differences in richness and changes to community composition in oil palm plantations compared to forest habitats are underpinned by marked differences in both habitat structure and microclimate characteristics,» the researchers wrote, noting that the plantations, for instance, lacked a suitable environment for amphibian reproduction, foraging and shelter.

Finally, protecting and rebuilding forest habitats to preserve biodiversity generates effective syncs of carbon, guards against erosion, and offers new economic opportunities.

After losing 80 % of the world's natural and intact forest habitats, mostly to agriculture, few people stop to wonder how Earth can accommodate these additional demands upon plants» primary productivity and still produce food, preserve wild places and maintain ecosystems required to maintain a habitable Earth.

Our excursions afford you an opportunity to experience a variety of rain forest habitats, each with a distinctive, complex community of insects, birds and animals.

Manu National Park is regarded as the most pristine protected in Peru and contains both lowland and Cloud Forest habitats containing an incredible diversity of Amazon plants and animals.

Some of the earliest evidence for human use of marine resources, coming from Middle Stone Age sites in South Africa, includes the harvesting of foods such as abalones, limpets, and mussels associated with kelp forest habitats.

This project will address these threats by adopting a holistic approach to the protection of marine life, seabirds and alluvial forest habitats.

The great forest disturbances created by Passenger Pigeon megaflocks — which were described by American ornithologist John James Audubon as similar to tornadoes — were a constant variable in the formula of eastern forest habitats.

However, the question the researchers asked was this: Should conservation efforts be focused on areas where forest habitats have already been lost and species might be reaching a threshold, or on forests that are largely intact and are only just beginning to be affected by development?

More importantly, edge effects create species communities near edges that bear little resemblance to the communities of forest interiors, and this species turnover likely reflects dramatic changes to the ecological functioning of modified forest habitats.

«Due to the sensitivity of mycoheterotrophic plants it has long been suggested that their species richness provides a useful indicator of the overall floral diversity of forest habitats.

«But we don't have to wait until these changes wreak havoc on our forest habitats.

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

The data reveal that the animals» numbers have plunged 95 percent over the past two centuries, coinciding with the arrival of settlers and the rapid clearing of forest habitats.

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.

Several oil sands operators launched pilot programs to explore the restoration of boreal forest habitat as a means of creating offset credits.

Carefully planned and sustainable forestry practices can create young forest habitat, and enhance the structure within our maturing forests.

«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.

The researchers captured and transplanted about 100 male lizards from their forest habitat to a hotter area with greater temperature variability about half a mile away.

Over the weekend a report was issued on the rights of indigenous people to their forest habitat and so forth.

These changes will occur because elephants are ecological engineers that help create and maintain forest habitat by dispersing seeds, recycling and spreading nutrients, and clearing understories, Poulsen explained.

Left to right: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service District Conservationist Brad Michael and Emily Heggenstaller, a golden - winged warbler biologist, meet with private landowners Mike and Laura Jackson to discuss young forest habitat management on their property.

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

All those hotels and shops built within the protected areas for the tourists are cutting down on actual forest habitat for the endangered big cats.

Because the owls» biggest problem used to be destruction of their old - growth forest habitat, conservation efforts have focused on protection against logging.

The main threat to its survival is the loss of its forest habitat.

As well as poaching, loss of its forest habitat due to commercial and illegal logging is also a major threat to the big cat.

The otter is a «keystone predator» whose presence has an outsized effect on its kelp forest habitat.

The findings show that the Ellesmere Protarctos lived in a northern boreal - type forest habitat, where there would have been 24 - hour darkness in winter, as well as about six months of ice and snow.

Although field studies have found little evidence of cooperative behavior in wild bonobos, it may simply be that their lush forest habitat provides enough easily accessible food that teamwork isn't necessary, de Waal says.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service listed the northern spotted owl as threatened in 1990 because of the declines in old - growth forest habitat throughout its range in Washington, Oregon and northern California.

It destroys the rain forest habitat, fails to alleviate poverty, and contributes to global warming by eliminating trees that would absorb and store carbon dioxide.

In the early 1900s, for example, island development shrank the Indonesian forest habitat of Bali tigers (Panthera tigris ssp.

Being a top predator, it needs a large range and so is particularly susceptible to the shrinking of its forest habitat, says Ben Collen of the Zoological Society of London.

While both the gibbons and their habitat are now protected under Chinese law, they are still potentially threatened by human disturbance, and by a lack of connected forest habitat to allow expansion of their population.

During the late 20th century their numbers were devastated by hunting and the loss of their forest habitat for logging and rubber plantations.

A new global analysis of forest habitat loss and wildlife extinction risk published July 19 in the journal Nature shows that species most at risk live in areas just beginning to see the impacts of human activities such as hunting, mining, logging and ranching.

Most of their forest habitat has been destroyed by logging, palm oil plantations, and other development.

Betts and a team of researchers at Oregon State and BirdLife International, a nonprofit organization, reached their conclusions by analyzing global datasets of forest habitat and species extinction risk.

Finding such a plethora of frogs — despite the fact that Sri Lanka has already lost 95 percent of its original rain forest habitat — puts the island's amphibian diversity on par with that of tropical islands nearly 10 times its size, such as Borneo and Madagascar.

In Brazil, it is illegal to cut down a Brazil nut tree in efforts to support their conservation because Brazil nut production has only been proven successful in its natural rain forest habitat.

Black cohosh grows best in medium - moisture soils and shaded or partially shaded areas that mimic its original forest habitat.

From sitting by the pool watching Zebra, Nyala, duiker and impala in their natural Sand Forest habitat, to coming face to face with Cheetah, Serval, Caracal and African Wild Cats at the Cat Sanctuary!

They consider the interrelationships of the forest communities and understand the healthy patterns of a forest habitat.

For instance, an invasive brown alga called Sargassum horneri now dominates large swaths of kelp forest habitat at the islands, and while it's impacts are not yet fully understood, the kelp forests of the Channel Islands are being substantially altered.

Kloof borders Krantzkloof Nature Reserve, featuring a wide variety of wildlife and birds making their homes in the indigenous forest habitat.

The journey lasts around 8 hours and includes stops in different Andean towns with chances to walk and experience the upper Cloud Forest habitat.

We descend on a fine Inca road through exotic cloud forest habitat.

And these humans» demands for fuel for heating and cooking mean prime panda forest habitat is disappearing more than four times as fast as it was before the reserve was established in 1975....

In the long - leaf pine program, South Carolina along with Georgia, Florida and Louisiana will receive funding to address that forest habitat as well as endangered and threatened species adjacent to military facilities, said.