Sentences with phrase «in different habitat»

This also means the birds presented different competition intensity in different habitat types and varying levels of competition to other seed eating species.

Studying worms can also give you an opportunity to talk about composting, which creatures live in different habitats, and how some creatures help plants grow!

The international research team documented the occurrences in different habitats for approximately 10,000 plant species originating from Europe — from which more than 2,500 have naturalized on other continents.

Another factor feeding this fear is the beaver's ability to reproduce in different habitats, a skill that is surprising researchers.

Moths are a species - rich group of insects that occur in different habitats.

It could be due to environmental change, or perhaps mammals had acquired a «critical mass» of «key innovations» — such as live birth, hot bloodedness, and fur — that enabled them to thrive in different habitats and diversify ecologically,» said Dr Close.

Nest site preferences in birds evolve over time based upon nest survival rates in different habitats, and may be confounded by the novel cues introduced by non-native plants,» adds Anna Chalfoun of the University of Wyoming, an expert on wildlife - habitat relationships.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

Spawning, as well as larval and juvenile development, will often occur in different habitats, and little was known about what the impact of changes in those environments is having on fish development, according to Harvey Walsh, a fisheries biologist at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center at the Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island.

A decade later, Richard Wrangham, working in both Gombe and the Kibale National Park in Uganda, showed that chimps can act much the same even when they live in different habitats and have different diets.

It's becoming clear and clearer as people look at different stages of the plant's growth and in different habitats growing next to other plants that the stressors in the environment can really change the chemistry; because most of the medicinal compounds in the plants are what are called secondary compounds, so they are not things essential to the metabolism of the plant like sugar and water and ATP for energy and DNA.

Members of the Fellowship Committee also agreed that her proposal stood out from other candidates and follows up on previous Belgian microbiological research in the different habitats surrounding the Princess Elisabeth Station.

Research on marine benthos in different habitats coastal, continental shelf, and deep - sea.

Kindergartners do dramatic play to understand how animals live in different habitats.

These larval forms usually live in different habitats, eat different foods, and assume a body form completely different from that of their parents.

Not exact matches

We have not seen any large - scale research that shows one approach to be clearly superior to another, however, and we suspect that growers in different regions and habitats have good options for cultivation that are most suitable to those regions and habits.

«The reason why he was so important and difficult to get is what he did in the Premier League because obviously there are other good strikers in football but the Premier League is a very specific habitat, a different habitat, normally they need some time to adapt and Lukaku plays in Premier League for the last four or five seasons,» Mourinho told reporters.

As campers explore our outdoor wetland, woodland, and prairie habitats, they will act as detectives to solve their own nature questions, decipher how different plants and animals survive, and discover the many interactions that occur in nature.

Students will compare and contrast the different elements of each habitat including the plants and animals that live in each.

«Our students will read different books on topics such as animals in their habitats.

«Usually, several species of wildlife live in a forest habitat, due to their biological traits like life history, strategy and diet, and their responses to livestock introduction are different too,» said Zhang, who also is an associate professor at China West Normal University.

«Luckily, there are government and non-government-led efforts that will begin to restore this habitat in 15 different states,» Kimbro said.

And the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a few years ago in its fourth assessment in 2007, said to the Europeans — but it could have been to the Americans for that matter in a different context — Europeans if you care for your songbirds, as Europeans really do, look to Africa and how African habitats are doing: 84 percent of the migratory birds in the world are vulnerable to climate change.

MPA rules vary, but may have restrictions on human uses such as fishing, habitat alteration, or oil and gas extraction in order to protect different ecosystems.

This research has been involved with a 50 - year, $ 626 million effort on the lower Colorado River that shows major genetics - based differences in the success of different populations that the Bureau of Reclamation and other agencies are using to restore riparian habitat.

Carolina Soto Navarro, one of the EDGE scientists on the expedition, says the goal is to «find out how the different bat species in this forest partition their use of the habitat, and exactly how far they go from Cueva la Barca».

Sight is really important in helping animals live, and since animals live in lots of different habitats, vision has evolved a lot.

Based on the analysis of changes in faunas with different ecological features (dietary habits, habitat preferences, etc).

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

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 strategieIn 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 strategiein complex environments using different strategies.

Gore and his colleagues call this distance the «recovery length» and believe it could be observed in real - world environments with habitats of different levels of fitness.

In August of 2012, Savage began studying how diversity differed across habitats with different levels of environmental stress.

SAN FRANCISCO — A joint Indonesian — U.S. expedition in the Sulawesi Sea mapped at least 25 different types of undersea habitats and may have discovered dozens of new species, scientists announced here December 13 at the American Geophysical Union meeting.

They were separated for thousands of years and evolved in response to different climates and habitat.

The researchers used GPS tracking to monitor 44 jaguars from 1998 to 2016 across different habitats representing the five biomes and an Atlantic Rainforest remnant in Argentina.

Man is the most adaptable of animals and succeeds by the variety of habitats he can occupy; the elephant comes next and is so successful in occupying different African habitats that he now comes bang up against an expanding human population.

In habitats rich in different species, pests don't become resistant to chemical control agents as quicklIn habitats rich in different species, pests don't become resistant to chemical control agents as quicklin different species, pests don't become resistant to chemical control agents as quickly.

«Prior to the last Ice Age, there was a clear distinction in the isotope values for all three species; after this period, there is a clear overlap — and this suggests that the habitat of deer species had shrunk or there was and overlap in the diets of the different deer species,» says Dorothée Drucker from the Biogeology department, who examined the collagen.

Over the spring and the early summer of 2010, a large team of scientists, led by Dr Christian Wurzbacher and Dr Norman Warthmann, affiliated with the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries and the Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Germany (currently at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Australian National University, Australia, respectively), collected a total of 216 samples from 54 locations, encompassing eight different habitats within Lake Stechlin in North - East Germany.

They say this is the first evidence of natural selection maintaining separate specialised types of the same species of fish, each adapting to different habitat depths within a single population spanning two kilometres of depth in the deep sea.

Yet if farmers had an economic incentive to add habitat — on fallow fields or in areas that are frost - prone, have poor soil or are otherwise unfit for blueberries — the story could be different.

This provides a uniquely clear example of how different specialists within the same species, in this case adaption to life at different habitat depths, can be maintained even within the same geographic population.

In this interactive exhibit, count up the different types of organisms that pass through a cubic foot of land or water in a single day in various habitats, including a coral reef in French PolynesiIn this interactive exhibit, count up the different types of organisms that pass through a cubic foot of land or water in a single day in various habitats, including a coral reef in French Polynesiin a single day in various habitats, including a coral reef in French Polynesiin various habitats, including a coral reef in French Polynesiin French Polynesia.

It found that local extinctions occurred in about half of the species surveyed across different habitats and taxonomic groups.

Topics of discussion regarding science for integrated management of coastal and shelf processes included natural variability of the coastal zone in space and time, experimental management, potential roles of different species, assemblages and habitats in coastal systems, effects of changing nutrient regimes, and perturbations of food - web dynamics.

A different perspective comes from Daniel Sol of the Center for Terrestrial Ecology and Applied Forestries in Barcelona, Spain, who studied the introduction of animals to new habitats.

Moreover, different species of abalone spawn in the open sea but, despite overlapping habitats and breeding seasons, hybrids rarely occur,» says Professor Jovine.

«Whatever major structural changes that are made to the environment can result in different connectivity between habitats and spaces.»

One implication of their findings, presented in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, is that moving to higher elevations to adapt to a warming climate could drive species into habitats with a whole different set of spatial properties.

The species involved in the collisions varied between services which operate across different habitats.