Sentences with phrase «in certain habitats»
Animals congregate in certain habitats according to the availability of not only food, but water, shelter, and companions.
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In addition, certain arthropods, especially carabids, are considered as sensitive indicators of habitat quality49.
And the return to ocean conditions last seen in the Ediacaran period more than 540 million years ago — when jellies last ruled the seas — has been a boon for certain fishes in habitats like the Benguela Current in the South Atlantic off Namibia in Africa, where jellyfish - eating gobies have replaced sardines in the food chain.
Venus flytraps are habitat specialists, found only in certain spots of longleaf pine savannas in the Carolinas.
For example, some fish, like salmon, build their nests only in gravel of a certain size, he notes, and so, «as rivers are increasingly being restored for fish habitat, it is important to know what slopes and flow depths will preserve a particular size of gravel on the riverbed.»
Burbrink and his team hunted for patterns in the data on sick snakes — to see whether the infected species were related evolutionarily, for example, or whether they shared certain behavioral traits or habitat preferences.
Earlier experiments have looked at why a certain species does better in a new environment than in its natural habitat.
The first is changes to the environment that significantly alter habitat, in effect» «altering the rules of the game,»» as Arens puts it, so that physical characteristics and behavior that once proved adaptive for certain organisms — dinosaurs, for instance, that relied on flowering plants for food — no longer work as well.
The study, carried out in collaboration with several international teams, demonstrates the need to protect certain irreplaceable habitats that allow species to persist during periods of climate change.
Frank Thompson, a wildlife biologist with the U.S. Forest Service in Columbia, Missouri, says of Winfree's work, «It's important to understand why cowbirds prefer certain habitats to breed in — and this is going to help do that.»
The study shows that biological globalization particularly favours certain plant species — namely those that have managed to naturalize in human - made habitats.
The «enemy release» hypothesis holds that certain invading species succeed because they escape from their natural enemies — pathogens, parasites, herbivores and predators — in their native habitat.
Last year, scientists in Denmark showed that terrestrial leeches can be used similarly to sample an area's fauna, though they feast on fewer species than do carrion flies, don't travel as far in search of prey, and live in only certain habitats.
«Here, NOAA Fisheries improperly relies on habitat mitigation measures that are neither reasonably specific nor reasonably certain to occur, and in some cases not even identified,» Redden wrote in his ruling.
The study, published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, finds that shoppers» willingness to pay more for sustainably grown palm oil could create profitable incentives for producers to preserve certain wildlife habitats.
To ensure that your pet mouse or rat gets a proper amount of exercise, you should make sure they have certain features in their habitats they can play with.
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We are biologically homogenising the biosphere, overharvesting certain species and functional guilds, altering a range of biogeochemical cycles, fragmenting vast landscapes down to local ecological communities, and saturating the planet's surface in a number of synthetic compounds: the slash and burn approach to global habitat management.
In addition to conferring certain protections under the MMPA, a depleted designation for the Sakhalin - Amur beluga whale stock would encourage the United States and foreign governments, conservation organizations, the scientific community, and funding institutions to support research and conservation efforts to help recover these belugas and protect their habitat.