Sentences with phrase «habitats using»

The On - Site Habitat Competition (Level 2) challenges competitors to fabricate full - scale habitats using indigenous materials or indigenous materials combined with recyclables.

He approaches bodies» habitats using organic and industrial materials in the gallery space, which in turn becomes an organism and a living body itself.

Figure 1 shows how a student tracked her progress on the topic of habitats using her scores on four different assessments.

In nature, however, a vast number of creatures navigate their habitats using soft bodies - earthworms, snails and larval insects can effectively move in complex environments using different strategies.

Pimm's team analyzed the birds» habitats using remote - sensing data on forest coverage and elevation.

In nature, however, a vast number of creatures navigate their habitats using soft bodies — earthworms, snails and larval insects can effectively move in complex environments using different strategies.

The intersection of her research on habitat use by migratory birds and her love of coffee prompted her to explore coffee sustainability issues.

Create their habitat using a cardboard box, construction paper, glue, and natural materials.

Help your toddler build an animal habitat using his blocks.

NASA science chief Thomas Zurbuchen learns about a habitat used to grow plants in space during a tour of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

This year, Tolson is initiating his third research project at Guantanamo Bay: a study of the habitat use and home range of the Cuban boa, pictured above with members of Tolson's research team.

«Research on Whooping Crane habitat use throughout the migration corridor is crucial in helping us ensure that we are restoring and protecting habitat for a growing population of Whooping Cranes in the right places,» states Wade Harrell, the U.S. and Wildlife Service's Whooping Crane Recovery Coordinator.

Now, researchers behind a new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications have created a model of Whooping Crane habitat use with the potential to greatly improve the targeting of conservation efforts during their migration.

After the tracking device was removed and the shark released, the downloaded data revealed a wealth of information about her 3,350 km journey, uncovering important insights into habitat use and pinpointing key sites to be considered for protection by ecologists and conservationists.

Study co-author David Rosenberg, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at USU, says if refuge managers implement the model's recommendations, they could nearly double the area of productive wetland habitat using existing resources.

The Central Valley's protected wetlands (federal wildlife refuges, state wildlife areas, and private lands) and certain types of agriculture (e.g. rice, alfalfa), provide nearly all of the habitat used by millions of ducks, geese, shorebirds, and other waterbirds every fall, winter, and spring.

«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.»

By shedding light on potential mechanisms that facilitated that bear's survival during her long swim, as well as the overall metabolism and activity of bears, the current study «profoundly contributes to understanding the value of summer habitats used by polar bears in terms of their energetics,» Harlow says.

«Although we previously knew that Golden Eagles in eastern North America breed in Canada and winter in the Appalachians, this study helps us to understand the relationships between summering and wintering habitat use and how management and habitat loss may impact eagles throughout their breeding range.»

«Comparative analysis reveals use patterns of deeper Caribbean coral reefs by shark species: Group spawning may drive predator habitat use for lemon sharks, may inform fisheries management.»

The study, «Landscape alterations influence differential habitat use of nesting Buteos and ravens within sagebrush ecosystem: Implications for transmission line development,» will appear in the August 2014 print issue of the journal The Condor.

Linking snake habitat use to nest predation risk in grassland birds: the dangers of shrub cover.

It «will assess at - sea habitat use and migration paths of adult brown pelicans that breed in the SAPA and, should energy development occur there in the future, be used to map potential risk areas,» Jodice said.

Comparative genomic analysis from 82 wild and wild - derived species grouped by microhabitat - use identified variation corresponding with one of these QTL, further supporting broad association with habitat use across the Malawi cichlid radiation.

Studies of habitat use and associated trade - offs of predation risk and foraging opportunities in fishes and crustaceans using mathematical models, physical sampling, and active hydroacoustics.

Studies of the influence of natural and anthropogenic alterations or perturbations to habitat on habitat use by fish and value as measured by residence time, abundance, and range requirements.

Kate's PhD focused on coastal bottlenose dolphins off southwest Australia, where she examined their home ranges, habitat use and population dynamics.

Migration and habitat use behaviors and their influence on population dynamics of coastal fishes, diadromous species, recruitment dynamics, habitat ecology, ecosystem based approaches to fisheries management

Split a class into teams and get them to compete in a game show, where the aim is to guess the habitat using the least amount of clues.

The twenty gallon aquarium is the most common starter habitat used for syrian hamsters, and can generally be purchased very inexpensively locally.

Hang one Triple Baked Crunch Stick inside your guinea pig's habitat using the attached holder.

The ten gallon aquarium is the most common starter habitat used for dwarf hamsters, and can generally be purchased very inexpensively locally.

Nams, V. O. & Bourgeois, M. Fractal analysis measures habitat use at different spatial scales: an example with American marten.

Effects of sterilization on movement, home - range behavior, and habitat use of feral cats on Santa Catalina Island, California

In 2011, he joined the California State University, Long Beach Shark Lab, where his Master's degree work focused on analyzing movements of juvenile predatory fishes to assess the landscape connectivity, habitat use and effectiveness of restored estuaries.

At Brooks River, staff continue to collect data for a long term bear population and habitat use study.

Montane habitat used by the spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius) in Mexico.

To examine the causes and consequences of the increase, we assessed abundance, body mass, home - range size, spatial resource use (den sites and habitat use), temporal resource use, and diet of island spotted skunks during abundance in 2003 - 2004 and compared it with similar measures during rarity in 1992.

Post-release monitoring of three stranded Guadalupe fur seals: movement, dive behavior, and habitat use.

The identification of individuals within a population and the collection of reliable information on distribution, habitat use, and life history traits are the basic requirement for behavioral and ecological studies of a species.

When did the first man or woman think about buttressing such a habitat using tree limbs?

Crimson would disrupt 30 acres of sand dune habitat used by the Mojave fringe - toed lizard — down from 580 acres under a previous plan of development — and just 1.2 acres of biodiversity - rich microphyll woodlands, down from 95 acres under the previous plan.

They incorporated all available information on distribution, catch, abundance, population trends, habitat use, life histories, threats and conservation measures.

«Hawksbill turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata) are critically endangered and the majority of hawksbill habitat use and movement research to date has been centred in the Wider Caribbean and Indo - Paciï ¬ c regions... As recently as 2007, hawksbills were considered functionally extirpated in the eastern Paciï ¬ c Ocean, based on scarce reports of their presence and the sparse coral reef distribution in the region... This study represents the ï ¬ rst initiative to track individuals from this remnant hawksbill population and describes novel habitat use that will inform regional conservation efforts.»

Changes in habitat use at rain forest edges through succession: a case study of understory birds in the Brazilian Amazon

She went on to say that the data her team used is one of the only sets available that covers such a long timeframe and then added that «it shows there has been a shift in [polar bear] habitat use.»

Not exact matches

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.

An exchange that used to house more than 5,000 traders shouting out their business now is a mostly docile habitat in which those still left on the floor quietly tap out orders on hand - held computers and barely make a peep at swift changes in market activity.

It's a result of a $ 17.8 million contract the company signed with NASA in 2012 to develop and test expandable habitat technology for potential use in deep space.

Ellliman has said from Day 1 that agents could use their marketing budgets to pay StreetEasy's fees, and last week Realogy — parent company of Corcoran, Citi Habitats and Sotheby's International Realty — announced a multi-year deal with Zillow to cover StreetEasy fees for its New York City agents.