Sentences with phrase «habitat by»

About Blog Shark Business is a conservation project that seeks to improve the status of sharks and their habitat by using ecotourism.

Wildlife rangers work in wildlife parks where their main responsibility is to manage the park's natural habitat by following a variety of known conservation and restoration techniques.

Over 100 volunteers gathered to restore 4,300 sq. ft of dune habitat by planting 11,000 sea oats!

According to a new report, it could lose all of its winter habitat by 2080.

Furthermore, in the Caribbean, a 0.5 m sea - level rise is projected to cause a decrease in turtle nesting habitat by up to 35 % (Fish et al., 2005).

That would cut orangutan habitat by 1137 sq km (16 %), resulting in the loss of 1384 of the apes.

Warmer stream temperatures, increased risk of habitat - damaging flooding, and reduced summer streamflows are expected to reduce suitable habitat by 47 percent for native fish like trout and salmon.

On the other hand, the equivalent nuclear generation might at a rougn guess occupy a hundred square miles or so (in a few hundred sites dispersed over the country), most of which can be nicely landscaped and used as habitat by wild creatures.

Still, one can seek depths in a dark but ebullient paper mural by Sandeep Muherjee at Chimento, a wall of bird carvings as unnatural habitat by Manuela Viera Gallo at Y, old luggage as the site of strange growth by Kathleen Vance at Rockelmann &, or weathered screen prints merging into abstractions by Levan Mindiashvili at Lodge.

«As a naturalist I lament the losses inflicted on our native habitat by these trees.

It is also threatened by introduced species such as rats and feral cats; this threat has been lessened lately by efforts to restore its habitat by removing introduced predators.

But the major islands are habitat by the native people called the Kuna.

You can only access this tranquil habitat by marsh trails, bikes, boardwalk overlook and the beach itself.

It is also threatened by introduced species such as mice, rats and feral cats; this threat has been lessened lately by efforts to restore its habitat by removing introduced predators.

For those of you who have helped restore habitat by growing or planting natives within the Golden Gate National Parks, you may have heard them being described as «drought tolerant» or «water-wise» plants.

Further, the influence of fire intensity on selection of habitat by cats was strongly affected by whether the habitats in question supported high densities of small mammals: sites in mammal - rich habitats that had recently been burnt at high intensity were especially strongly favoured.

«The tunnels are long, skinny polyester fabric tubes that add a new dimension to the pet's habitat by extending space for play and exploration.

Due to the rapid loss of habitat by development, many coyotes, bobcats, and mountain lions have found themselves forced to cohabit with humans.

Gradually reducing the numbers of cats in a habitat by contrast allows the native predators to breed up to the carrying capacity vacated by cats, until the native predators have completely taken over.

You can reduce the tick habitat by removing the leaf litter and clearing tall grass and brush.

Paper Plate Habitat Students learn the four components of a habitat by building a habitat for a chosen wild animal species.

Along with the fantastic views of Beaver Lake, our entire property is certified as a backyard wildlife habitat by both the National Wildlife Federation and the Arkansas Game & Fish Commission.

All Subaru products are manufactured in zero - landfill production plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive, Inc. is the only U.S. automobile production plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation.

What was more sobering was to discover that Nestle is destroying the orangutan habitat by their harvesting of palm oil found in their candies.

Rhesus macaques could potentially impact the native plant and animal species in the park in several ways; for example, eating plants needed by other animals, changing the plant composition in the park, or pushing other animals out of the habitat by being aggressive, Anderson said.

Saltcedar disrupts the structure and stability of native plant communities and degrades native wildlife habitat by outcompeting and replacing native plant species.

Nitrate can go from helpful to harmful, choking fish and their habitat by stealing oxygen, and contaminating human drinking water.

Use of elephant dung as habitat by amphibians,» will be published in Biotropica.

They interfered with the lizards» ability to move around and limited available habitat by reducing the variety of rodent species which create burrows.

Scientists believe that the nearly 5 - degree Fahrenheit temperature increase forecasted for the interior West could reduce the trout habitat by half in this century, sending their numbers into a tailspin

The trilobites are fossilized inside black shale, which Hegna said likely happened as a result of them being forced out of their habitat by an event such as an undersea mudslide.

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.

In Cape Cod Bay, man - made noise has reduced right whales» acoustic habitat by as much as 80 percent, says Chris Clark, director of Cornell University's Bioacoustics Research Program.

All Subaru products are manufactured in zero - landfill production plants and Subaru of Indiana Automotive Inc. is the only U.S. automobile production plant to be designated a backyard wildlife habitat by the National Wildlife Federation.

Much more serious is the destruction of habitat by deforestation and expansion of farming.

MaCuMBA coordinator Prof Lucas Stal (Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ)-RRB-, said: «MaCuMBA aims to improve the isolation rate and growth efficiency of marine microorganisms from conventional and extreme habitats by applying innovative methods and using automated high - throughput procedures.

In 2007, an Australian National University Ph.D. candidate named Stephen Munro was studying prehistoric hominin habitats by examining fossil mollusks.

Improvements in eDNA sampling and analysis methods over the past decade «have increased our ability to determine if a species is present or not, and its relative abundance, in aquatic habitats by analyzing a single water sample,» said Baldigo.

Located in an area of the Pacific Ocean known as the Clarion - Clipperton Zone (CCZ), the plan honored existing mining exploration claims while protecting delicate habitats by creating a network of MPAs.

According to official Chinese estimates, their numbers have fallen to only around 1590, largely as a result of the destruction of their natural habitats by humans.

Causeways and other roads that bisect wetlands alter natural habitats by providing avenues by which invasive plants species can colonize wetlands and nesting areas, altering natural hydrology of wetland systems, altering storm water runoff and drainage, providing avenues for road salts and pollutants and the direct loss of habitat due to land - clearing and paving.

In their upcoming second Ecological Restoration publication titled «Resurgence of Native Plants After Removal of Amur honeysuckle from Bender Mountain Preserve,» Conover and Sisson reveal the lengths to which honeysuckle alters habitats by decreasing light availability and depleting soil moisture and nutrients, as well as by possibly releasing toxic chemicals that prevent other plant species from growing in the vicinity.

Roads also fragment and isolate turtle habitats by establishing a barrier to migration and the movement of individuals.

The swan's majestic looks have earned it protected status in some parts of the U.S., but the swans damage marshes and shallow - water habitats by tearing up vegetation.

After over three billion years of evolution in the oceans, multi-cellular life — beginning with green algae, fungi, and plants (liverworts, mosses, ferns, then vascular and flowering plants)-- began adapting to land habitats by creating a new «hypersea,» and adding anomalous shades of green to Earth's coloration more than 472 million years ago (Matt Walker, BBC News, October 12, 2010; and Qiu et al, 1998 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

my pet theory is about invasive species (and by that I mean, species introduced to novel habitats by humans, which detrimentally affect the habitats they invade).

First, she asked them to share what they knew about habitats by placing a virtual note in the Prior Knowledge column.

«The few that are able to adapt to the new environment may disrupt the ecological balance of our natural habitats by competing with our native species for resources,» he explains.

Destroying any mosquito breeding habitats by removing all potential sources of stagnant water

A major initiative is to restore demolished underwater habitats by building new coral reefs using electric powered structures or Biorock with the help of the community itself.