Sentences with phrase «habitat structures»

It would be great to give students an opportunity to build a 3D habitat structure, using art supplies, to showcase what they've learned — it would also be expensive.

The artist says of her recent collage work, «I tear apart and re-assemble pieces of newsprint images to create characters and habitat structures inspired by my observation of people living on the streets in New York City.

On landscapes with both open and closed habitat structure, they may use a combined strategy of hiding in forest cover to lower predator encounter rates and seeking open terrain, such as grasslands, where predation risk may be reduced.

The invasive fiber - like red seaweeds (Dasysiphonia japonica) had covered up to 90 percent of some areas, altering the visual landscape, and the newly created habitat structure now supported two to three times more small creatures at the base of the food chain.

For her thesis, Maria studied minke whale occurrence in relation to sea ice habitat structure throughout the Antarctic sea - ice zone.

This includes predator - proof fencing, top - predator restoration and conservation, lethal control, and maintenance of habitat structure.

This in turn supports other important projects such as stream restoration for the protection of steelhead trout and salmon, additional habitat structure for nesting raptors, and habitat for the northern spotted owl.

The edge effects describe the changes in species diversity that occur at habitat boundaries, and can be pronounced when habitat structure alters abruptly between two different types of ecosystem.

The artist says of her recent collage work, «I tear apart and re-assemble pieces of newsprint images to create characters and habitat structures inspired by my observation...

«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.