Sentences with phrase «forest patches»

Such factors are thought to determine the minimum size of forest patches birds need.

On the one hand, biodiversity suffers because numerous rare animal species depend on large forest patches.

Wear comfortable footwear on this journey as it involves a 15 - 20 minutes walk through the rocky forest patch.

Normally those small fires would burn longer and spread further and create a mosaic of forest patches.

They measured rates of hummingbird visits to feeders and to live plants (Heliconia tortuosa) placed in forest patches.

«This work presents tropical forest landowners with a simple, relatively inexpensive solution to enhancing biodiversity and pollination of native forest plants — connect forest patches with hedgerows and wooded corridors,» said Urs Kormann, the lead author of the study and a postdoctoral researcher at Oregon State.

ramidus times is one of a woodland setting with small forest patches.

Researchers have found that forest corridors enable specialized hummingbirds that prefer such landscapes to travel longer distances from one patch of trees to another, increasing pollen exchange between forest patches.

The authors also point out that the focus of the Forest Code on riparian forest patches should not undermine the need to maintain and restore native vegetation in areas further away from the streams.

Red - backed voles actively use corridors between Washington forest patches, a genetic study shows.

«But to truly meet corporate «zero - deforestation» pledges and consumer needs, the RSPO needs to do more, such as adopting satellite - based monitoring of forest patches within plantations and extending protections to secondary forests in addition to all peatlands.»

The remaining forest patches were then buffered from any new fires that started in a neighboring patch and large catastrophic fires are very rare in mosaic habitats.

Furthermore, additional extinctions of small populations are eventually expected over time in many forest patches resulting in a net loss in the number of species present before full post-relaxation conditions can be attained [26], [27].

On average, forest patches retained 3.9 out of 18 potential species occupancies, and geographic ranges had contracted to 0 — 14.4 % of their former distributions, including five large - bodied species that had been extirpated at a regional scale.

Today's big oaks grew up in forest patches that were relatively open; over the past century, these parts of the forest became shadier as villagers abandoned small - scale clearings, which have since become overgrown with hornbeam and other species.

He studied small woodlots in rural and suburban sites in Maryland and larger forest patches in Tennessee in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Researchers in Queensland, Australia, assessed the condition of fragmented eucalyptus forests at 10 sites using conventional measures — including the size of forest patches, vegetation characteristics and the number of bird species detected — and sound recordings.

The good news for avian conservation is that male hooded warblers frequently cross gaps of up to 450 meters, and they don't seem to require corridors connecting forest patches.

«These new findings suggest that in order for small forest patches or narrow corridors to be of long - term conservation value in oil palm landscapes, their sizes and widths need to adequately account for the considerable influence of edge effects,» Benoît Goossens, director of the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah, who was involved in the study, said in a statement.

Deforestation is stopped, rivers are safeguarded by buffer zones, critical on - farm ecosystems (such as wetlands) are protected, and forest patches are preserved.

If however there is a great variety of tree species in a forest patch, according to the study this can significantly strengthen the chance of survival.

It consists of forest patches that have been highly degraded by timber extraction, which are sewn into a landscape of palm oil plantations and human settlements.

The constructions would take advantage of the natural features of each forest patch to protect the animals from the sun and enhance the number and comfort of cool spaces.

You wouldn't even look at a forest patch.

«[The plantations] can play a better role in biodiversity conservation by becoming wildlife - friendly, by keeping large forest patches in their estates, by maintaining, wide riparian corridors, and by supporting a «no wildlife killing» policy,» he told Mongabay in an email.