Sentences with phrase «habitats used as»

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Bigelow first started his space company, Bigelow Aerospace, in 1999 to develop habitats for use as research labs for corporations and countries without space programs, housing for missions to Mars, or even as hotels for tourists on the final frontier.

Caribou planning often talked of using offsets as a tool for arresting the decline of the species and its habitat.

Various permits are also being advanced with state and federal agencies — such as water discharge, wetlands, air quality, water use and fish habitat permits and other approvals that will give them right - of - way access.

Adelphia says it strives to work with suppliers that are certified sustainable or that use fishing methods that are less damaging to fish habitats, such as long - line fishing.

Organic farmers also use numerous integrative pest management techniques which promote environments that support beneficial insects such as pollinators by providing them with habitat, and use farming methods such as crop rotation which provide a diversity of nutritious floral food sources to reduce the prospect of malnutrition.

An avocado orchard uses twice as much water as a regular forest, and much of that water is diverted from the natural habitat where other plants and animals can use it.

Farmers using climate - smart practices understand that trees do a lot on farms: they can act as windbreaks, reducing soil erosion; they can enrich soil; they can filter water, resulting in higher water quality; they provide shade for workers and shade - loving plants; they create habitat for wildlife and wildlife corridors; they suck up and store greenhouse gasses — the list goes on.

Australia's largest dairy is using a palm oil product — linked to the deforestation of orangutan habitat and biosecurity scares — in cow feed while promoting its product as based on Tasmania's pristine pastures.

This will mean that Commonwealth environmental water will be used to protect habitat such as permanent waterholes that support the survival of water dependent populations of native plants and animal life,» he said.

The latter includes good agricultural practices such as soil erosion prevention, minimizing water use and pollution, responsible use of chemicals, and habitat protection.

The Swiss organic standards require organic farmers to use 7 percent of their land as semi-natural habitats, including field margins.

The Gunners have been using socializing as their Premier League habitats.

Through this state - of - the - art technology learning initiative, scientists, educators, and students will be able to interpret changes in the Tidmarsh landscape as it is documented using video cameras and hundreds of electronic sensors embedded in the habitats of the site.

We use the animal Toobs in various habitat activities as well as for counting, pretend play and sorting.

Naming Long Island Sound and the Peconic Estuary as one of eight national critical designation areas would help fund agricultural conservation efforts, habitat restoration efforts and the sustainable use of soil, water and other natural resources, according to Mr. Bellone's office.

It will be up to the Wauwatosa Common Council to put teeth in this proposal by using their zoning power to limit the amount of development to that which is planned, restrict the kinds of development to that which is planned, and especially to protect the parkland and habitat as intended in the plan.

The broader aim, says Clark, is to shift the research and mitigation paradigm from using decibel level to using acoustic habitat as a measure of the impact of noise on marine mammals.

Scientists have known for a while, however, that juvenile loggerheads sometimes use the same habitat as swordfish, especially when the water becomes unusually warm.

MPA rules vary, but may have restrictions on human uses such as fishing, habitat alteration, or oil and gas extraction in order to protect different ecosystems.

Together the team have been using zebra stools to understand how challenges or «stressors», such as the destruction and breakup of habitats, impact on populations of South Africa's Cape mountain zebra.

Unlike many bird species that are now extinct on the Earth's small islands, the Eastern Bluebird and the Hispaniolan Crossbill disappeared long before the first people arrived, uncoupling their extinction from human actions, such as the introduction of new predators and habitat loss for agricultural use.

«Northern California still has viable habitat for free - flying California Condors, and these results suggest it is possible to succeed in this region, particularly as a broader switch from lead to non-lead ammunition use is realized,» adds to Kelly Sorenson, Executive Director of the Ventana Wildlife Society and an expert on condor recovery who was not involved in the study.

«We used high - resolution animal tracking tools to describe in as much detail as we could the ecology of the mantas and their connection to this particular marine habitat,» McCauley explained.

Much as NASA used simulators to test dogs and monkeys before launching them into space to gauge the physiological effects of g - forces and weightlessness, Bond sealed animals, and eventually human volunteers, in pressurized tanks to simulate a deep - sea habitat.

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

In order to protect moth populations at risk of extinction, the authors suggest that land - use managers should try to eliminate street lighting as much as possible in prime moth habitats, for example by turning off light at critical times in the year.

Rajesh Gopal, director of Project Tiger, defends the use of pugmarks as «in tune with the local conditions» and says that the technique will be refined as part of a $ 1.1 million project now under way to map all tiger habitats.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

HAMPTON COURT PALACE, England — First it was birds and now it is bees that are finding their numbers under increasing pressure from sources as diverse as habitat loss, insecticide use and changing weather patterns.

Bolstered by the success of their retrospective analysis the scientists forecast caribou habitat to the year 2080 using a «business - as - usual» climate model — the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's A1B model.

Beginning in early spring, FWS personnel regulate water flows throughout the refuge to safeguard habitat for the hundreds of thousands of migratory birds that use the 76,000 - hectare refuge as a key stopover and nesting ground.

The parasites» natural hosts are African thicket rats that use shrubs and trees as habitat.

The strategy — widely anticipated but issued 5 months later than the White House had originally planned — also outlines a series of steps and goals for agencies to pursue, such as tackling bee - killing pathogens and mites, reducing pesticide use and reviewing its safety to bees, restoring degraded pollinator habitats, and encouraging the planting of more flowering plants and other pollinator - friendly vegetation.

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

Marine litter can act as an enabler of this loss: non-indigenous invasive species often use litter in the ocean as a habitat in which to hide, as a platform on which to settle or as a transport medium for moving into new territories.

Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, however, made clear several times during a press conference announcing the department's decision that, despite his acknowledgement that the polar bear's sea ice habitat is melting due to global warming, the ESA will not be used as a tool for trying to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions blamed for creating climate change.

Land use in these parts of northern Europe has changed markedly with key butterfly habitats such as hay meadows disappearing at alarming rates.

And for aquatic species, whose threats often come from activities taking place on land far from where they live, land use management may prove just as important as protecting their habitat.

The project, which will use dolphins specially trained by the US Navy to corral as many vaquitas as possible so they can be put into protective pens in their natural habitat, also got the green light to start from the Mexican government.

Then their numbers declined drastically as they became victims of hunting, and loss of prey and habitat, and, starting in the late 1940s, use of the pesticide DDT — which thinned the eagles eggshells and prevented hatching.

But globally, long - tongued bumblebees are declining, says Cameron, as are many bees, in part because of climate change, pesticide use, and habitat loss.

Using special diving suits and submersibles, they have even entered the habitat of deep - sea organisms, watching in awe as the water world lit up with bursts of color that sparkled like fireworks.

The first U.S. State of the Birds report came out in 2009 and established the precedent of using birds that are confined to specific habitats as indicators of the health of those habitats: oceans, coasts, wetlands, arctic, forests, grasslands, and aridlands.

«The current recovery plan doesn't recognize that there are two distinct taxa on the islands; therefore, monitoring of population size and habitat use that treats all Hawaiian bats as a single unit is likely providing measures that are overestimated and not accurate for either taxon.»

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

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.

Alternatives include collecting valuable data from subsistence harvests, using remote methods to track changes in habitat, and selecting specific subpopulations as indicators.

Pacific walrus use the floating pack ice both as a platform on which to rest between feeding bouts and as a passive transport around their habitat.

The need to hop fast in open habitats seems to have driven the evolution of an odd habit in some of Australia's iconic marsupials, they use their tail as a fifth leg

This critically endangered frog can be used as a basis for declaring its native laterite habitats as «Conservation Reserves» or «Biological Heritage Areas» under existing legislations in India, allowing us to further our knowledge and understanding of amphibians,» said Mr Seshadri.