Sentences with phrase «grassland habitats»

The park has several Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) designations due to its exceptional range of grassland habitats and its internationally important volcanic geology.

«We've identified Canoe Meadows as one of Mass Audubon's best opportunities for providing high quality grassland habitat for birds and other wildlife,» said Berkshires Sanctuaries Director Becky Cushing.

Bill Merkle, a wildlife ecologist for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, notes that mission blues are closely tied to the coastal grassland habitat, which used to be well - distributed throughout the Bay Area.

Geladas live in an open grassland habitat and typically produce loud vocal calls during mating, so the dominant male should be able to easily detect any infidelity and stop it from happening.

Loss of essential grassland habitat, increased use of toxic pesticides, reduced availability of nesting grounds, disease, and a changing climate with extreme weather patterns have all played a role in their decline.

He has been instrumental in developing best practices for managing grassland habitat and has contributed to the newest edition of Mass Audubon's respected State of the Birds report, which will be released later this year.

Some restoration ecologists consider tropical grassland habitats off limits for tree - planting projects.

Lister explains that climate change could be to blame for the mammoths» demise, as their range shrank when grassland habitats were replaced by forests.

Rancho Corral de Tierra: Habitat Restoration More Help Needed Here Help restore grassland habitat for the endangered Hickman's potentilla by planting native grasses and flowering plants.

Candidate Conservation Agreement for the Lesser Prairie - Chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus)... fws.gov... grassland habitats include the construction of the infrastructure associated with oil and gas extraction and wind farm development....

Habitat: The Mission blue requires a host plant and appropriate nectar plants in a coastal grassland habitat.

The majority of their historic and current range is in the Cape Floristic Region, but also extends northeast into Nama - Karoo, thicket and grassland habitats and northwest into the Succulent Karoo biome.

The conservationists on the panel suggested that the ambitious vision of bringing back the Island's most famous bird and its former shrubland / grassland habitat could inspire efforts to restore much of the Island's wildlands to their original more biodiverse condition, reducing some of the current overgrowth of forest with prescribed fire and other techniques.

The historical distribution of the species probably encompassed much of the coastal scrub / grassland habitat of the northern San Francisco peninsula and Marin County.

Fifth - graders from Glassbrook Elementary School in Hayward, CA recently participated in a unique environmental action project that gave them special access to beautiful private Bay Area oak woodland and grassland habitat.

Britain's declining bee population has become an increasing worry — these poor little creatures have lost 97 % of their grassland habitats in the past 60 years.