Sentences with phrase «habitat types between»

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

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.

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.

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.

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.