Sentences with phrase «in fragmenting the habitat»

The consequences of cougar overcrowding in fragmented habitat are painfully clear just 300 miles south of the Santa Cruz population, where biologists struggle to save about 12 mountain lions in the Santa Monica Mountains above LA.

«These have been the major factor in fragmenting the habitat.

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While overall habitat loss is a factor in these declines, research also indicates that even fields of sufficient size, if they are fragmented or interrupted by hedgerows or natural windbreaks, will be passed over by the birds, which may view the linear plantings as cover for predators.

With habitat fragmented and destroyed in cooler areas, wild dogs have literally nowhere to go.

Disproportionately, the scientists say, recently discovered species live in fragmented, fragile habitats — and therefore they, too, may number among those that are most threatened.

The data should reveal how pumas adapt to life in a habitat fragmented by roads, dotted with houses, and surrounded by water and concrete.

The tropical forests of the Amazon, for example, were being fragmented by logging and burning, resulting in a patchwork of good and bad habitat.

«Skin microbe diversity can vary with forest type and habitat in Brazilian frogs: A leaf - litter frog has twice the bacterial richness in continuous forest than in fragments.»

The sites — including locations in the Crane Naval Surface and Warfare Center, Big Oaks National Wildlife Refuge, and state parks — varied in habitat size and form, ranging from small to large forest fragments with varying degrees of tree cover.

That meant they missed important changes in habitat suitability and how much of the habitat, however good, is fragmented.

The report identified over 40 key actions needed to boost gibbon numbers and ensure their long - term survival, including enhancing monitoring systems to keep track of remaining individuals, creating canopy bridges between forest fragments to expand their habitat range, and limiting disturbance by people in forested areas.

It is thought that the 2,000 or so adults estimated to exist back in the early 1990s have dwindled to less than half than the original number due to habitat loss and severely fragmented populations.

On islands and in fragmented urban and suburban habitats unnaturally high densities of cats are not only capable of reducing or eradicating populations of birds and small mammals, they can out - compete native predators like foxes and weasels.

«To thrive in these [fragmented] habitats birds must have special adaptations such as the ability to respond to frequent nest predation and parasitism and to forage on a wide variety of seasonally available foods.

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.

According to Stott, the project would have fragmented «the combined contiguous habitats of the Huai Kha Khaeng Wildlife Sanctuary, the Thung Yai Wildlife Sanctuary, the Kroeng Kavia Non-Hunting Area, and the undisturbed forest across the border in Burma possibly comprise the finest remaining conservation area in the whole of mainland Asia.»

As pockets of forest habitat are isolated, their edges are exposed to harsher, brighter, drier conditions and plant and animal dispersal between habitat fragments is made more difficult; in addition, habitat fragments may be too small to sustain populations of some species.

In the Scenic Hudson study, Dr. Michael Klemens demonstrated that the original proposal's 951 widely - spaced units would be «ecologically damaging» and would cause widespread harm to important habitat and wildlife species by permanently fragmenting of over 2,200 acres of rich Hudson Valley open space.

Projected range shifts of mammal species will be limited by fragmented habitats and human pressures, as suggested in the TAR, with declines in species richness likely, especially in protected areas.

Komodo dragons live in three main habitat types: coastal mangroves, open savannahs, and fragmented shade forests.

The habitat in the Qinling Mountains is seriously fragmented and the population density is very high... the brown pandas could be an indication of local inbreeding.