Sentences with phrase «in island size»

These fluctuations in island size and distance from each other and the mainland influenced colonization and extinction rates of island taxa.

Not exact matches

Both «Fortnite» and «PUBG» follow the same formula of pitting 100 players against each other on an island that's shrinking in size.

Located off the southeastern coast of China, Taiwan is about the same size as Belgium and was named Formosa Island by Portuguese explorers in the 16th century due to its stunning natural beauty.

The US military's miscalculation of the test's size resulted in the irradiation of approximately 665 inhabitants of the Marshall Islands and the radiation poisoning death of a Japanese fisherman who was 80 miles away from the detonation site.

Singapore, the smallest nation in Asia, occupies a 225 - square - mile expanse of swampy, tropical islands — an area about the size of Trenton, New Jersey.

It joined Parkfield Capital Advisors to form Acrecent Financial Corporation of San Juan, a joint venture that invests in medium - sized companies in the island.

The Nation of Qatar, roughly the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island, is the world's leading producer of natural gas and has the highest per capita income of any country in the Arab world.

By the time visible unity is restored to the church, the community of active committed Christians may have been reduced in size and influence to a quite insignificant island in a vast secular sea.

These Hawaiian chicken wings are my way of capturing the flavors of the islands in a bite size package and paying homage to the tradition of the grilled huli huli chicken, but without out any of the junky ingredients you'd find in a bottled sauce or the barbecue grill which is likely buried under snow this time of year on the mainland!

Located in Bolivia's eastern lowlands, the concession covers an area the size of Rhode Island and its forests provide habitat to tapirs, giant otters, and pumas.

We offset one indulgent night at the Taj Mahal Palace in Mumbai, enjoying a pool the size of Rhode Island, with a week at a homestay in rural Alappuzha, where we took cold - water bucket baths, then ate paratha made by hand and cooked over a fire.

The scope of the census survey included UK - though not the Channel Islands or Isle of Man - fish processing businesses of all sizes, engaged in any type of processing, where 50 % or more of their turnover was generated by processing activities.

Rottnest Island's main resort will get more top - end rooms and will almost double in size under a $ 40 million expansion to help draw more visitors, but the WA Government says it won't just be «an exclusive little enclave».

In case some of the Arsenal fans from across the across the pond aren't familiar with who Stan Kroenke truly is... He bought a ranch half the size of Rhode Island and then evicted numerous elderly and disabled people.

And there's a chance that while they're listening to Boras compare Arrieta to a neon mantis the size of Rhode Island, some of those traditionally rich teams will sneak in behind them and snatch some of the better pitchers away.

Sure, that's optimism that's based in sample - size dust, and it's probably a little premature, maybe by a year or two or three, and it's possible that he'll eventually befriend Joe Borchard on the Island of Misfit Tools.

It's the largest island in the Antilles that includes an intricate archipelago that includes the main island (about two - thirds the size of Florida), the Isle of Youth, and about 4,195 keys (cayos) and islets.

The Isle of Youth is second in size only to the main island.

Our full size version was a space sucker and our toddler was semi-removed from the family table because of her highchair island in the corner.

Jerry Conrad, vice president of Cambridge Homes, said that when the Park District approved revised plans for Island Park in April, Cambridge thought that adding the gazebo and landscaping would reduce the size of the cash donation.

Did you know that there is an island made of trash and plastic the size of Texas floating in the Pacific Ocean.

Long Island Breastfeeding does not believe in «one - size fits all» care so we do our absolute best to give you and your family individualized support.

While it easily could be forgotten and overlooked in City affairs primarily due to its very small size, Staten Island politicians have worked across party lines to promote Staten Island's interests and political profile.

The city last studied adverse health issues for Staten Island residents near Fresh Kills in 1997, but its sample size was small and it was before 9/11, Borelli said.

Who favors not having a Speaker of the House who flies around in a jet twice the size of Rhode Island?

Ironically, Mr. Recchia's campaign also touted the Monday profile in the Times in a recent fund - raising pitch, reveling in its headline: «Staten Island's Tough - Guy Congressman Faces Somebody His Own Size.»

On the stump, he touted the Island's status as the safest community of its size in the nation.

The charge of excess budgeting, which auditors have noted in reports on about 20 districts on the Island since January 2014, annoys many school administrators in Nassau and Suffolk counties, who say they must maintain financial cushions to preserve student programs and small class sizes in an era of fiscal uncertainty.

Rattus detentus, a Rodent of Unusual Size: On Manus Island, separated from New Guinea by about 100 miles of ocean, researchers found one of the largest rats known from the Melanesian archipelago, a particularly rich region for rat diversity, according to the April study in the Journal of Mammalogy.

Fryer is so convinced that he has worked with the city and county of Honolulu to update their tsunami evacuation maps to include the possibility of a massive tsunami the size of the one detailed in the new study hitting the islands.

Another Ice Shelf Disappears A Rhode - Island - size chunk of ice in the Antarctic disappeared in March.

The National Wilderness Preservation System has 680 chunks of such terrain, varying in size from a six - acre island in Florida to a nine - million - acre park in Alaska.

Auger consist of 1660 particle detectors covering 3000 square kilometers, an area nearly the size of Rhode Island, in the Pampa Amarilla in Argentina.

Many hours later, it leads to an area of protected land called Iwokrama, a Rhode Island - size forest in the heart of Guyana, crowded with ancient buttress - trunked trees draped in liana vines.

The creature evolved its small size, they surmised, as a response to the limited resources available on its island home — a phenomenon that had previously been documented in other mammals, but never humans.

The new object is about 700 km in diameter — roughly one - and - a-half times the size of Vancouver Island — and has one of the largest orbits for a dwarf planet.

The mouth of the Amazon River has three main channels, with an island the size of Switzerland in the middle.

Long - tailed macaques on an island in Thailand are doing such a good job of cracking shellfish with stone tools, they are driving down their prey's numbers and body size

«The dinosaur probably had to shrink down to dwarf size in order to survive, given the limited food available on these small islands in the shallow Central European sea,» says Lallensack.

They extrapolated the overall size of the island's population from the number of orangutan nests observed throughout the species» range in Borneo.

High - resolution imaging techniques, used to investigate the shape and distribution of ploughmarks on the sea floor in Pine Island Bay, allowed the researchers to determine the relative size and drift direction of icebergs in the past.

In this seminal work, which focused on islands in the sea, MacArthur and Wilson related the size of an island and its distance from the mainland to the richness and resilience of the island's animals and birds, which were now nativeIn this seminal work, which focused on islands in the sea, MacArthur and Wilson related the size of an island and its distance from the mainland to the richness and resilience of the island's animals and birds, which were now nativein the sea, MacArthur and Wilson related the size of an island and its distance from the mainland to the richness and resilience of the island's animals and birds, which were now natives.

Save the Chimps, Polidoroff says, currently has 254 chimpanzees that live on 12 islands, each up to 2 hectares in size, on Florida's east coast.

Around the same size as Jamaica, this is one of the most remote and difficult to access islands in the Canadian High Arctic, and as such not much was known about the geology.

In contrast, Bierman and colleagues» data provides a record of continuous ice sheet activity over eastern Greenland but can't distinguish whether this was because there was a remnant in East Greenland or whether the ice sheet remained over the whole island, fluctuating in size as the climate warmed and cooled over millions of yearIn contrast, Bierman and colleagues» data provides a record of continuous ice sheet activity over eastern Greenland but can't distinguish whether this was because there was a remnant in East Greenland or whether the ice sheet remained over the whole island, fluctuating in size as the climate warmed and cooled over millions of yearin East Greenland or whether the ice sheet remained over the whole island, fluctuating in size as the climate warmed and cooled over millions of yearin size as the climate warmed and cooled over millions of years.

Like Charles Darwin's famous finches, which evolved a wide range of beak shapes and sizes to exploit the different foods available in the Galápagos Islands, these cichlids represent a textbook example of what biologists term an adaptive radiation — the phenomenon whereby one lineage spawns numerous species that evolve specializations to an array of ecological roles.

Scientists have documented this transition before: In 2002, a Rhode Island sized chunk of ice calved from a different ice shelf, Larsen B, along the Antarctic Peninsula (SN: 10/18/14, p. 9).

The chicken - sized Maleo lays a huge egg, which it buries in the sand at its home on the Indonesia [n] island of Sulawesi.

Though small in size, the islands apparently exert considerable influence over a sizable stretch of the Pacific Ocean.

The slip of land, just twice the size of Manhattan, embarked on this experiment in 1998 after winning the Danish government's contest to designate a national Renewable Energy Island.