Sentences with phrase «habitat type on»

The study, «Hydroacoustics as a tool to examine the effects of Marine Protected Areas and habitat type on marine fish communities,» appears Jan. 15 in the journal Scientific Reports.

Not exact matches

Mass Audubon successfully conserves additional land all the time — from stands of old growth forest in the Berkshires to coastal habitats on the Cape and islands to the precious salt marsh of the North Shore — and every type of habitat in between.

«So we don't have good data on what types of habitat they're using.»

«Based on our results it looks increasingly like sites which were predominantly heathland but are now a combination of heathland, grassland and woodland probably provide a better landscape for pollinators than a landscape with just one habitat type,» she explains.

The researchers identified several criteria for choosing umbrella species — such as big carnivores, most long - lived, habitat specialists, and ones on the verge of extinction — and analyzed how many imperiled species might be saved by protecting the habitat of that type of umbrella species, compared to species saved by randomly picking a set of species to serve as the umbrella.

Bocherens and his colleagues work on the assumption that Gigantopithecus's size, in connection with its restriction to one habitat type, doomed the giant apes.

The study identifies such climate change refugia based on the amount of natural habitat present and the risk that regions shift to a different type of natural vegetation due to climate change — a phenomenon known as «biome shift».

Urbanization is an important factor because it changes the species composition in an area, favoring the types of mosquitoes that live near and feed on people, such as Aedes aegypti, and causing other species to decline, such as those adapted to wetlands and other natural habitats.

«Long - term projections of the type presented here are always crude caricatures but I like this study because it does take a more mechanistic approach based on the known habitat requirements of the species rather than using a more traditional and simplistic thermal envelope model,» he said.

In the 1830's Charles Darwin collected finches from the Galapagos Islands and observed that the beaks of the finches were formed differently, depending on what type of habitat they inhabit.

Some now think that carbon - based life like our own is bound to arise on any Earth - like planet, and that Earth - type bacteria can even spread through space via asteroidal and cometary impact ejecta to colonize accommodating habitats anywhere.

Topical application of Jewelweed liquid herbal extract not only cures the discomfort of these types of poisoning, it also prevents the reaction if you rub it on your skin before venturing into the plants» habitat.

We show that modifications of habitat produced by grazing and by certain types of fire have strong effects on cat movement behaviour, with the general result that fire and grazing can create habitat conditions which are strongly favoured by cats.

«Each department features rail runners giving helpful hints and a soft sell of the products featured in that area and shelf talkers that educated the consumer on the type of feeder, seed and habitat needed to attract the species.

Place one to three inches of carefresh ® complete natural paper bedding in your pet's habitat depending on the number and type of pets housed.

In their ordinary habitat, they announce «parties, church services, or business openings» and serve «a type of community building and self - representation that relies on alternative and analog means.»

Requires the Secretary to develop a Habitat and Corridors Information System that includes maps and data on fish and wildlife habitat corridors and that identifies, prioritizes, and describes key parcels of non-federal land located within the boundaries of specified types of public land that are critical to maintenance of wildlife habitat and migration corridors.

Their entire livelihood is based largely on hunting and eating wild animals and birds, which has been effectively prohibited by the 1974 Wildlife Conservation Act, pushing them into more remote and marginal habitat types.

However, we demonstrated that there is specialisation of the coral host to particular reef environments, with each strain of coral host associating only with particular types of symbiotic algae... the results also highlight the lack of connectivity between different habitats on a single reef, such as shallow and deep water, which has important implications under future climate change scenarios, as coral reefs will be largely dependent on neighbouring areas for their recovery.

I conducted research on white - tailed deer including mapping and sampling of its habitat types determining habitat selection home range size and structure and conducted behavior and population dynamics studies using radio - tel...