Sentences with phrase «hundreds of other species»

«Drilling and associated industrial activity would put polar bears, caribou, migratory birds and hundreds of other species that live on the coastal plain at incredible risk, while also threatening the livelihood of the native Gwich «in people, whose culture and way of life depends on these resources,» she continued.

The Rio Bravo Conservation Area consists of 250,000 acres of land that nurtures flocks of keel billed toucans amid hundreds of other species, or spend the majority of your time at Stann Creek's Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Preserve.

DSM makes it easy to capture you and your friends alongside sharks, turtles and hundreds of other species of marine life!

As mussels cluster together in beds, they provide a protective home for hundreds of other species.

«The peregrine falcon and the brown pelican, in particular, were rapidly heading for extinction, and hundreds of other species were showing drastic declines.»

The Standard Model has 40 species of elementary particles (24 fermions, 12 vector bosons, and 4 scalars), which can combine to form composite particles, accounting for the hundreds of other species of particles discovered since the 1960s.

This is in addition to the Stegosaurus and hundreds of other species, all of which, while not as large and fearsome as the above, were all larger than any elephant or other living land animal.

Not exact matches

On the other hand, many species have peacefully coevolved with humans for hundreds of thousands of years to play essential roles in digestion and in bolstering the immune system.

From Indian University Web site: «When exceptionally complete fossil sites are studied, usually a mix of patterns are seen: some species still seem to appear suddenly (within a few hundred thousand years), while others clearly appear gradually (over many millions of years).

Since 1960 over two hundred books and countless reports have examined either single congregations or their species, and any new work such as mine gratefully follows the tracks that many sorts of explorers — consultants, management specialists, sociologists, psychologists, ethnographers, historians, and others — have already laid down.1 Prior to 1960 the investigation of the local church was more occasional, and except for a few books written to enliven parish programs2 and the pioneering sociology of H. Paul Douglass, 3 the analysis occurred primarily in Europe.4

Of the hundred principal crops that make up most of the world's food supply, only 15 percent are pollinated by domestic bees (mostly honey bees, bumble bees and alfalfa leafcutter bees), while at least 80 percent are pollinated by wild bees and other wildlife (as there are an estimated 25 000 bee species, the total number of pollinators probably exceeds 40 000 speciesOf the hundred principal crops that make up most of the world's food supply, only 15 percent are pollinated by domestic bees (mostly honey bees, bumble bees and alfalfa leafcutter bees), while at least 80 percent are pollinated by wild bees and other wildlife (as there are an estimated 25 000 bee species, the total number of pollinators probably exceeds 40 000 speciesof the world's food supply, only 15 percent are pollinated by domestic bees (mostly honey bees, bumble bees and alfalfa leafcutter bees), while at least 80 percent are pollinated by wild bees and other wildlife (as there are an estimated 25 000 bee species, the total number of pollinators probably exceeds 40 000 speciesof pollinators probably exceeds 40 000 species).

The popular conference brings together hundreds of birders and others who care about nature to learn the latest in the field, make new birding companions — and look forward to exploring fields and forests in search of their favorite species.

While their ineffectiveness and poor strategic value for the cost are reasons why militaries don't tend to stock and deploy them, like any other overpriced ineffective weapon, it does not answer the question of why people have a phobia of chemical weapons to the point where slaughtering hundreds of thousands with conventional weapons is fairly unremarkable but merely a thousand with chemical weapons is a worldwide calamity and affront to the species as a whole.

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.

Like researchers studying other logged forests, she found evidence of an «edge effect»: the density of shade - tolerant seedlings decreased within several hundred meters of the fragment edge, where young trees are more exposed to sun, wind, and competition from invading species.

In some places and some groups, hundreds of species exist, whereas in others, very few have evolved; the tropics, for example, are a complex paradise compared to higher latitudes.

This lesson was repeated in Costa Rica and other tropical countries, and led to the realisation that hundreds of thousands of species were disappearing.

Some species of parasitic worm secrete several hundred molecules, says Harnett, who like Maizels and others is hunting for the ones that might target disease.

With the advent of genome engineering, scientists are now introducing hundreds of different human mutations in other species to study their effects and develop new drugs.

The human GI tract is colonized by billions of bacteria and other microorganisms, belonging to hundreds of species that are collectively termed «microbiota.»

In the subsequent Marine Mammal Science paper just out, the catches were among the key pieces of information used to model the size of the California blue whale population over time — a model previously used by other groups to estimate populations of hundreds of fish and various other whale species.

These observations, carried out at an extraordinary level of detail, made it possible to establish the interactions between one hundred or so species situated on four trophic levels: plants (23 species), aphids that feed on these plants (25 species), wasps that lay their eggs in the bodies of the aphids (22 species), and other wasps that lay their eggs in the larvae of the preceding wasps inside aphids (26 species).

More than one hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwin hypothesized that species could cross oceans and other vast distances on vegetation rafts, icebergs, or in the case of plant seeds, in the plumage of birds.

Hundreds of other grasshopper species thriveddespite, or even because of, these habitat changes.

In the moist, dark microbial rainforest of the intestine, hundreds of species of microorganisms interact with each other and with the cells of the host animal to get the resources they need to survive and thrive.

There has been an international moratorium on commercial whaling since 1985, but Japan relies on a clause that allows whales to be taken for research to catch hundreds of minke and smaller numbers of other species each year.

But under a clause that allows taking whales for research, Japan has been catching hundreds of minke and smaller numbers of other species each year.

Where these animals, and hundreds of other related, but extinct, species sat in the mammal family tree has baffled many, until now.

MEXICO: According to a new study thousands of individual animals from hundreds of marine species including every kind of sea turtle and around half of marine mammals have encountered plastic, glass, and other garbage in the ocean.

Basically, Bufo was a huge group that included hundreds of species — we just didn't know which of these animals were most closely related to which other ones.

I think I've discovered why this is such a potent combo, it's because the combination of different fatty acids together with the potent anti microbial and anti fungal action of GSE have a powerful broad - spectrum effect on the many (19) different species of candida as well as the literally hundreds of other strains of yeast and bacteria which populate the gastrointestinal tract of many patients with chronic yeast infections.

Domestic and feral may kill hundreds of millions of songbirds and other avian species every year, roughly 39 million birds annually.

So how can it be that annually, humans spend hundreds of dollars trying to learn how to communicate with a significant other... and yet without words, we share one of the strongest emotional bonds known to man with a species that doesn't even talk like us?

But Cambridge, which last year also banned the use of wild and exotic animals in traveling shows and circuses, went a step further than Boston, Stoneham, and hundreds of other US cities and towns with similar bans by including a wide variety of commercially - bred species.

Reports suggest that around 75 % of the world's species live here and similar to anything else you do around these parts, you won't be swimming past hundreds of other divers to get a good look.

Other popular Belize destinations include: • The Belize Barrier Reef, one of the world's most diverse ecosystems, with hundreds of coral and fish species • The Hol Chan Marine Reserve, where you can snorkel with stingrays • The Actun Tunichil Muknal, one of Belize's many Mayan caves, complete with original ceramics, stoneware, and even skeletons • The Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary • The Blue Hole, a popular destination among scuba divers looking to spot Caribbean reef sharks

As for Belize's pristine jungles, the extensive eco-systems still support 5 species of large jungle cats, hundreds of other mammals, birds, reptiles and insects.

Altun Ha located 31 miles north of Belize City and is home to two hundred species of birds and a multitude of other wildlife.

The shallow lagoon is dotted with hundreds of coral patches that harbor parrotfish, butterflyfish, octopus, and other marine species.

Hundred species of birds, plants, exotic flowers, Mammals and other living things have been recorded here.

Like no other spot in the Hawaiian Islands, its hallowed namesake refers to the 60 - foot (18 m) chambers that house hundreds of active marine life species, including octopus, blue - stripe snappers and pyramid butterfly fish.

You will discover hundreds of unique species based on real creatures, and interact with schools of thousands of fish that procedurally respond to you, each other, and predators.

The Kemp's Ridley sea turtle sets itself apart from other turtle populations in several ways: They're the smallest of all the Gulf of Mexico turtle species, measuring only about 2 feet when fully grown; they're the world's most endangered sea turtle; and they're known for their synchronized nesting activities, called arribadas, in which hundreds or thousands of females come ashore on the same day to lay their eggs.

«Within our lifetime, hundreds of species could be lost as a result of our own actions,» said Julia Marton - Lefèvre, the director general of the International Union for Conservation of Nature, or I.U.C.N., a network of campaign groups, governments, scientists and other experts.»

Finally, there's one last critical point that Robert Bryce conveniently ignores: Climate change threatens hundreds of migratory bird species, which are already stressed by habitat loss, invasive species and other environmental threats.

As co-owners of Emory Knoll Farms, a wholesale nursery devoted to none - other than extensive greenroof plants, they speak from a first hand working understanding and through years of species trial and error, with hundreds of greenroof projects specified and planted with their nursery stock.

In fact, the world's interconnected ocean as a whole is sliding into the Holocene Mass Extinction, the geological event that some scientists use to divide the boundary of the Holocene and the Anthropocene epoch, the one that's named after us — and that may still be visible in the Earth's geological record hundreds of millions of years from now, because species of fish, shellfish, crustaceans and other marine life, that were abundant on this planet for millions of years — suddenly, in less than the blink of a geologist's eye, vanished — for good.

For this is a problem that if not controlled may cause the death of tens or hundreds of thousands of helpless victims caused by intense storms and heat waves, the death or sickness of millions that may suffer dengue fever or malaria, the destruction of some nations» ability to grow food or provide drinking water, the devastation of forests and personal property, and the acceleration of elimination of countless species of plants and animals that are already stressed by other human activities.

«We can just about restore the balance of the ecology, the biosphere, and so on — in other words we can live within our means instead of on an unrepayable overdraft, as we've been doing for the past half century — if we exterminate the two hundred million most extravagant and wasteful of our species.»

Home to 10 percent of the world's flamingos and hundreds of other bird species — as well as a major source of salt production in the country — the delta was once on the brink of being paved over.