Sentences with phrase «in grasslands»

Gunnison's prairie dogs are burrowing rodents that live in the grasslands of North America.

They live in grasslands of alfalfa, abandoned cropland, forest land, and apple orchards.

And once a national carbon market is established, farmers could sell credits for storing carbon in grassland soil.

In grassland species, diversity is also decreasing due to intensification of grazing management and to high inputs of fertilizers.

«Evidence of parental infanticide in a grassland bird species.»

In the case of grasslands, tundras, and certain other treeless habitats, the upper one or two layers may be absent, although in those cases there are often material differences in the grassland plant height layering.

For the last 35 years, Hoogland has studied four species of prairie dogs living in grassland ecosystems within national parks or wildlife refuges in the western U.S..

A UW College of Business researcher has helped quantify the economic value of biodiversity in grasslands for the purpose of carbon storage.

«Flowering meadows benefit humankind: Greater biodiversity in grasslands leads to higher levels of ecosystem services.»

While on the Fox Trail, breathing heavily as you reach the summit and its gorgeous views, you may notice a doe and her two fawns grazing in the grasslands.

It forages in grasslands bordering riparian areas such as irrigation right of ways, coastal marshes, streams, or lakes.

Before entering into actual gameplay, players can use any Seeds they have (earned through winning or purchased through the shop) to plant additional trees in the grassland.

Habitat Channel Islands slender salamanders occur in grassland, coastal sage scrub, chaparral, riparian, oak woodlands, and pine forest communities.

Learn about the natural environment and First Nations culture as you slowly paddle through this pristine wilderness and go hiking through ancient island rainforests, then watch as bears emerge from their winter hibernation to feed in the grasslands of Knight Inlet.

The fact that the Sahara was covered in grassland increased its rainfall.

In another Foundation - funded project, the team is using samples from the field vaccine study to help understand plague ecology and overlap among rodent communities and prairie dogs in grassland ecosystems.

van Eekeren, N.; Murray, P.J. and Smeding, F.W. (2007) Soil biota in grassland, its ecosystem services and the impact of management.

For instance, prairie deer mice live only in the grasslands of the Midwest.

Most wildlife research has been done in grasslands, where it's much easier to work, but «there is a vast amount of information still to be learned from rainforests,» Karesh says.

Woody vegetation also may be expanding in grasslands because of more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, Dodds said.

In grasslands like this, she says, «It's the primary way people make a livelihood while keeping habitat.»

Findings in the paper, «Worldwide Evidence of a Unimodal Relationship between Productivity and Plant Species Richness,» reveal a consistent biological rule governing the link between plant biomass and species richness in grassland ecosystems — plant species diversity is generally greatest at intermediate levels of plant biomass.

It also is commonly used in grassland restoration of prairies across several million acres in the Great Plains region.

The Bernese plant scientists could show that at the beginning of the experiment mainly species with a high seed mass germinated in the grasslands.

M. arion larvae were more specialized than had previously been recognized, being adapted to a single host - ant species that inhabits a narrow niche in grassland.

Reasons for the jailhouse pattern include confusing predators, being camouflaged in grasslands, and allowing the animals to pick each other out in large herds.

The low intensity amber light was shown to inhibit, rather than induce, flowering in greater bird's foot trefoil, a wild relative of peas and beans that is a key source of food for the pea aphid in grasslands and road verges.

«Specifically, the use of restored areas that have vegetation next to water resources and contour planting in grasslands appear to be the most effective techniques to reduce sediment transfer to the watershed river network,» says Wilson.

For every two species lost in a grassland, the remaining flowers there bloomed a day earlier — on par with changes due to rising global temperatures.

A 60 - strong research team, led by Dr. Santiago Soliveres from the University of Bern, therefore studied all groups in a grassland food chain for the first time.

«Grazed lands play a major, essential role in grassland bird conservation in South America, and this important research reveals that specialized birds may be limited by habitat quality.

A Lancaster University - led team of scientists from the UK, Netherlands and Germany has produced new evidence that increasing plant species diversity can protect soil in grasslands by improving soil structure, maintaining its overall health.

The Middle Palaeolithic occupations were situated along the Jubbah palaeolake - shores, in a grassland setting with some trees.

Linking snake habitat use to nest predation risk in grassland birds: the dangers of shrub cover.

Drought consistently alters the composition of soil fungal and bacterial communities in grasslands from two continents — Raúl Ochoa - Hueso — Global Change Biology

An MSc project at the University of Bristol, UK, has also led to an on - going collaboration to determine the evolutionary causes of high - crowned teeth in grassland mammalian herbivores.

One pair even attempted nesting in a grassland on Santa Cruz Island.

Triteleia laxa (Ithuriel's Spear) >> Ithuriel's spear is common in grasslands and open woodlands and thrives in clay soils.

Choose from a variety of exciting safari expeditions by tram, caravan truck, cart, segway, zip line, and more that reveal lions lounging in the grasslands, antelope and giraffes mingling, rhinos wallowing in waterholes, and sightings of many other amazing animals.

The inhabitants were fairly unorganized and spend their time tracking through the country hunting in the grasslands.

In order to eat the best grass in the grassland, they start a contest to determine which herd will win.Bump Sheep has a unique mix of good strategy and quick reflex.

If he's right (and yes, I noticed the link to research that he isn't, but this is for sake of argument), then his method should, or at least plausible could, absent other mitigating factors, lead to increases in carbon storage in those grasslands — not necessarily at the scale he claimed on TED, but conceivably pointed in the right direction.

The post also points out soil moisture as a key factor affecting carbon uptake in grasslands.