Sentences with phrase «from apex predators»

How serious is the «trophic cascade» that results from an apex predator being absent or scarce?

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On Jan. 26 from 5 - 6 p.m. at Crowder County Park in Apex, learn about predator - prey relationships, the food chain, skulls and teeth of mammals, and play some games to test your senses.

Hence, Scheyer and his colleagues wanted to establish whether the apex predators really were missing from the oceans after the mass extinction and how the ecosystems functioned.

Discards from the town's yearly hunt, the remains give biologists a unique opportunity to observe ongoing encounters between apex predators.

Now, findings from a new paper in Scientific Reports by me and co-authors from the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries, Simon Fraser University, and East Carolina University show an apex predator may be joining the northward shift.

These revelations soon unravel the backstory and the meat of «Godzilla» begins: an apex King of All Monsters predator that is awakened from the deep when two radio - active - feeding monsters — the ones responsible for the Japanese atomic incident — threaten to destroy the planet.

The 375kW rear - drive apex predator has shifted the position of its engine from behind the rear axle to in front of it, which the company says provides balance and weight distribution for the 1243 kg racer.

However, subpar battery life keeps the tablet from rising to the level of an apex predator, and Nvidia has an even better option for gamers.

TNR on a national scale would basically be an engineered extinction event — fast enough to have a real impact, but slow enough to allow nature to transition from one apex predator to another.

Emboldened divers seeking a less scripted encounter with apex predators can meet up with everything from hammerheads and lemon sharks to tigers, bulls and oceanic white tips.

Due to the intact connectivity of the extensive seagrass beds, desnse mangrove forests, and robust coral reefs, the remoteness of the area, and the history of protection from coastal development, the Gardens of the Queen represents a «baseline» for a nearly pristine Caribbean marine ecosystem; an ecosystem that includes healthy populations of apex predators like sharks and groupers, important grazers like Rainbow parrotfish and long - spine sea urchins, and recovering endangered species like elkhorn coral and hawksbill sea turtles.

From herbivores to apex predators, such as the big schools of charismatic hammerheads and scores of moray eels, the entire ecosystem stood out as a refuge from the pervasive negative news about coral reef bleaching in the GalápaFrom herbivores to apex predators, such as the big schools of charismatic hammerheads and scores of moray eels, the entire ecosystem stood out as a refuge from the pervasive negative news about coral reef bleaching in the Galápafrom the pervasive negative news about coral reef bleaching in the Galápagos.

After all the press that sharks have received for, you know, disappearing from our seas thanks to overfishing, and all the movement forward conservationist groups have made in protecting these really important apex predators, there are still fishermen out there who take great pleasure out of pulling a shark out of the sea.

These are goals that would go a long way to help shark numbers recover, and bring these important apex predators back from the edge of extinction.

Great news for marine animals: an enormous area around Cocos Island, also called «Shark Island» for it's high population of the apex predators, is now a safe haven for species from hammerhead sharks to leatherback turtles.