Sentences with phrase «habitat types»

This also means the birds presented different competition intensity in different habitat types and varying levels of competition to other seed eating species.

Cameras were placed in a variety of habitat types throughout the Lagunitas Creek corridor.

The mild climate of coastal California and the many habitat types found within the Golden Gate National Parks support many species of raptors — some seasonally, some year - round.

In their natural condition the several habitat types in Africa may be looked upon to some extent as a changing mosaic, with fire as the great changing factor.

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.

Clifton's estimates are derived not from surveys of homeowners feeding stray and feral cats, but from «information about the typical numbers of cats found in common habitat types, gleaned from a national survey of cat rescuers... cross-compared with animal shelter intake data.»

The predominance of local vegetation in collected scat suggests little movement among habitat types between feeding sessions, indicating that the polar bears are keeping energy expenditure down.

The predominance of localized vegetation in scats suggests little movement among habitat types between feeding sessions.

Spinifex is a major habitat type across central Australia — from Queensland to Western Australia, including in the Simpson Desert where this study was conducted.

However, this is intended to diversify habitat types mostly within dense conifer plantations.

The NTNU researchers are also focusing on understanding bog ecosystems and bog restoration, and are drafting protection plans for this important habitat type.

Moreover 27 % of species assessments and 66 % of habitat types assessments show an «unfavourable conservation status», with the others categorised as «unknown».

Huge, dense, nomadic flocks moved from one area to another constantly, shaping a mosaic forest landscape of successive habitat types.

They note that further extended studies are needed, especially in large urbanized areas with varied habitat types, cat densities and prey availability.

Habitat: Cow parsnip grows in a wide variety of forested habitat types, grasslands, shrublands, meadows, alpine, and riparian zones.

This superb Madagascar itinerary will take you to some of the island's remotest corners, where rare wildlife and unique flora in two of Madagascar's most threatened habitat types - spiny bush («spi...

Habitat associations include: coniferous forests, mixed meso - phytic forests, deserts, native prairies, riparian communities, active agricultural areas, and coastal habitat types.

Home range use by Island Foxes is influenced by various factors including topographic features, available habitat types, habitat - specific resource abundance, fox density, sex, and age (USFWS 2012).

Set in the foothills of the MacAlister Range, in a World Heritage listed area, Hartleyâ $ TMs Crocodile Adventures is home to a range of habitat types including melaleuca wetlands, riverine rainforest and eucalypt woodland.

«Because we are in such tremendous deficit of this post-fire habitat type, especially in this area, the Rim Fire is a good thing ecologically,» Hanson said.

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.

This desert woodpecker is tolerant of various habitat types within its range: broadleaf riparian groves, saguaro «forests,» and urban districts.

Komodo dragons live in three main habitat types: coastal mangroves, open savannahs, and fragmented shade forests.

Many of the native plant nurseries in the Golden Gate National Parks grow this plant for restoration in several different habitat types.

Lacking competition from other elk species in North America, they spread widely across many habitat types, from Pacific Northwest rain forests to sagebrush deserts.

Transects of coverbaords have been placed in several habitat types, and the number and size of lizards found under the coverboards is recorded several times per year.

[9] Clifton's estimates are derived not from surveys of homeowners feeding stray and feral cats, but from «information about the typical numbers of cats found in common habitat types, gleaned from a national survey of cat rescuers... cross-compared with animal shelter intake data.»

Habitat Big - eared bats have been reported in a wide variety of habitat types ranging from sea level to 3,300 meters.

The creatures risking extinction are from a range of habitat types and from endangered species such as elephants and gorillas to animals we don't think much about, like vultures and salamanders.

Although the habitat types present at Farrar Pond are not rare, the mixed forest is of relatively high quality, having few non-native species present and closely resembling oak - hemlock - white pine natural community type as described by the Massachusetts Natural Heritage and Endangered Species Program.

Trapping and handling hundreds of woodrats (also known as packrats), the scientists found that the two species are highly associated with different habitat types, though they may live within meters of each other along the boundary.

Rather the composition of these communities was best predicted by geographic distance and habitat type.

Unfortunately, most of that habitat type was removed when the shipping channels were created or has filled with silt from agriculture and construction in the watershed.

In the European Union, among assessments of the conservation status of species and habitat types of conservation interest, only 7 % of marine species and 9 % of marine habitat types show a «favourable conservation status».

Darkness or lightness is explained by geography and habitat type.

These bursts were found in phylogenetic trees created for 22 microbial communities, chosen to represent a breadth of habitat types: plant, marine, and human gut and skin.

But the complexity of facial color patterns is not related to habitat type.

«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.

In its native environment, the wild cat is adaptable to a variety of habitat types: savanna, open forest, and steppe.

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.

• proximity to habitat edge (where any of four natural habitat types might abut one another) and proximity to human - made features.

To spread the risk of losing one habitat type in a bleaching event or other natural disaster, managers should protect multiple examples (replicates) of the full range of marine habitat types, and spread them out to minimize the chance that they will all be wiped out by the same disturbance.

These resourceful animals have adapted to virtually all habitat types throughout North America.

This habitat type was once abundant, but is now rare.

The area proved to he ideal for research because it is highly diverse in structure, habitat types, and plant and animal species.