Sentences with phrase «in desert habitats»

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Example: Oakland, Calif. - based BrightSource Energy Inc. last month scrapped plans to build a solar power plant on 5,130 acres in the Mojave Desert in southern California after months of protest from environmental groups concerned that the project would threaten important habitat for bighorn sheep.

The Mojave Desert tortoise population has seen considerable decline in its habitat that includes California, Nevada, Utah and Arizona.

Ranids are found on every continent but Antarctica and in a wide range of habitats, from trees to deserts.

[Luis Marone et al, Diet switching of seed - eating birds wintering in grazed habitats of the central Monte Desert, Argentina]

Lacking competition from other elk species in North America, they spread widely across many habitat types, from Pacific Northwest rain forests to sagebrush deserts.

«The Swainson's warbler is becoming a conservation success story in a habitat that was once feared to be a biological desert,» said Graves, curator of birds in the Department of Vertebrate Zoology.

Ever since Lake Lahontan dried up thousands of years ago, the Black Rock Desert in Nevada has been a forbidding habitat.

«Their knowledge of how to live in the desert is crucial to the survival of future generations of elephants in the arid habitat, and pressure from hunting and climate change may only increase in the coming decades.

There are several habitats once thought to be inhospitable to even the world's most adaptable organisms — places like the core of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest region on Earth; ice sheet plateaus in Greenland that are 10,000 feet thick; and near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor with temperatures above 750 degrees Fahrenheit, to name a few.

Spinifex is a major habitat type across central Australia — from Queensland to Western Australia, including in the Simpson Desert where this study was conducted.

The vast desert regions of the Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula contain numerous archaeological sites, indicating that Pleistocene hominins penetrated these areas, living in more favourable habitats [1], [2].

The 2015 - 16 Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) field season officially came to a close this weekend as Crew 169 (Team Peru IV) departed the Mars Society habitat in Utah.

You can see the impact of habitat loss on local climate by poking a stick into the parched soils of the Brazilian cerrado or wandering along the boundary of the expanding Sahel Desert in Africa.

In this habitat lesson, 5th graders use a shoebox to make a desert habitat and use Wikki Stix to create a desert animal.

Since syrians from desert may i use sand in habitat with bedding duchcas chinchilla sand and the habitat tunnels look very tight on hercnow when should they be taken out?

Although they exist in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors, and may be found in habitats from desert to arctic tundra, perhaps the most familiar wild rabbit to Americans is the cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus spp.), so - called for its round, fluffy, white tail.

Rattlesnakes are widespread in California and are found in a variety of habitat throughout the state from coastal to desert.

They can be found in many different habitats such as deserts, mountain ranges, forests, prairies, and even along the coast.

Rattlesnakes live in a variety of habitats, they are found in wetlands, deserts and forests, from sea level to mountain elevations.

In search of the fabulous wildlife of the world from aardvarks to zebras and featuring varying habitats from deserts to jungles.

In contrast to Nestler's installation are Robin Stein's photographs of stark dwellings dotting the desert landscape, whose residents are utilizing the land as a habitat, albeit its hostile and unyielding characteristics.

Meagan Estep of the Phillips Collection, who worked with Kenmore Middle School to create lessons based around exhibitions at her museum, said she's also worked with a preschool teacher to create a lesson about ecology and habitats based around a Georgia O'Keefe painting, Ranchos Church, of an austere church in the desert.

In San Diego, we are lucky to have a diverse set of habitats: Beach, Chaparral, Mountains, Desert, and more.

Insects can be found in almost all terrestrial and freshwater habitats, from the driest deserts to freshwater ponds, from the canopy of a tropical rainforest (where their diversity is unbelievably great) to the arctic wastes.

Furthermore, mankind was living in every conceivable habitat, including forest, jungle, alpine, desert, marsh, grasslands, coastal, and arctic.

A study published Monday shows that solar power developers in California have been using mostly undeveloped desert lands with sensitive wildlife habitat as sites for new solar power installations rather than building on less sensitive, previously developed open lands.

(3) Spreading solar panels (or wind turbines) over a large area will degrade vegetation and animal habitats in fragile deserts and semi-arid areas.

Most importantly, they fail to point out that the project site lies in some of the best habitat available to the golden eagle in this entire desert region.

Pr Quiggin, I liked the joke offer — care to build a self supporting habitat in the Simpson Desert, High Altiplano or Antarctica?

More recently, Governor Schwarzenegger issued Executive Orders in 2008 and 2009 that established the Renewable Energy Action Team to develop a plan for renewable development in sensitive desert habitat, accelerated the Renewables Portfolio Standard requirement to 33 percent by 2020, and directed the Air Resources Board to adopt regulations by July 31, 2010, to meet that requirement.

The building of the massive 5.6 - square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of construction while the U.S. Bureau of Land Management assesses whether more than 3,000 acres of tortoise habitat would be lost.

Discussing the ongoing tug of war in the Mojave Desert between protecting habitat for endangered species and developers of large - scale solar power installations (protect habitat of one species versus helping protect the habitat of lots of species, humans included), Madrigal writes,

OK, so maybe the festive teeth and beady eyes and wrinkled hairless skin aren't exactly cuddly — they're like the exact opposite of a kitten — but they are exquisitely designed to live in the habitat of their choice, tunnels beneath the hot African desert.

You can see the impact of habitat loss on local climate by poking a stick into the parched soils of the Brazilian cerrado or wandering along the boundary of the expanding Sahel Desert in Africa.