Sentences with phrase «how large their habitat»

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The Chicago Zoological Society (CZS), which manages Brookfield Zoo, is taking the lead in the largest - ever, multi-institutional study of how physical habitat, environmental enrichment, and animal training impact the welfare of cetaceans in zoos and aquariums worldwide.

Orians was studying how blackbirds choose where to live when he noticed that humans also select their habitat according to specific criteria, like the presence of water, large trees, open space, and distant views — criteria evoking the savanna where humans evolved.

One study mentioned in the WSU review demonstrates how drought, hunting and habitat competition among growing populations in Egypt led to the extinction of many large - bodied mammals around 3,000 B.C..

For their studies on a species of human malaria that is also carried by monkeys, as part of a larger project funded by the UK Research Council Living with Environmental Change initiative, Fornace and her colleagues are using a drone to map changes in mosquito and monkey habitats and correlate how those changes affect human infection.

The new study included some of the first data on how large smoothtooth blacktips can grow, how many pups they can bear and their habitat usage as well as other information needed for an effective conservation and management plan in the future.

As one of the largest national research programmes on ocean acidification, BIOACID has contributed to quantifying the effects of ocean acidification on marine organisms and their habitats, unravelling the mechanisms underlying the observed responses, assessing the potential for evolutionary adaptation, and determining how these responses are modulated by other environmental drivers.

This entry in the Protecting Food Chains series opens with an explanation of food chains and how they create a larger food web and the importance of protecting the habitat and its wildlife.

That's not how it's explained on the BirdLife International website, where the «large and statistically significant decrease over the last 40 years in North America» is attributed to «widespread habitat fragmentation» and extensive hunting («over 20,000,000 individuals were recently being killed annually by hunters in the USA»).

Next, it became apparent that in order to save a checkerspot butterfly, a dusky seaside sparrow, a grizzly, or some other species, we had to figure out how to protect a large, sustaining portion of its habitat.

Depending on how it's done (micro, small, run of river, large scale) it can be anything from a great low - carbon sustainable energy source to an environmental disaster destroying habitat, displacing people and animals, and even spewing greenhouse gases from the large ponds created behind massive dams.