Sentences with phrase «in new habitats»

So far, the efforts on behalf of the fishers are paying off with a high survival rate in new habitats and healthy offspring.

The researchers uncovered a variety of features in the cichlid genome that enabled the fishes to thrive in new habitats and ecological niches within the Great Lakes of East Africa.

Which leads to the biggest puzzle for Lordkipanidze: Anthropologists have always assumed small - brained hominids lacked enough intelligence to create the tools they'd need to fan out from their African homeland and survive in new habitats.

Researchers have long assumed that these dramatic transitions resulted in a sort of accelerated evolution in which genes for traits such as skin color and stature changed rapidly to allow humans to survive in their new habitats.

It was typically the organisms that settled in new habitats and were able to multiply rapidly.

It seems probable, although accurate measurements are impossible, that impulses issuing from Jesus were more potent in shaping Western European peoples, both in Europe and in their newer habitats in the Americas, Australasia, Asia, and Africa, than in any previous era.

Plants are often moved away from their natural provenance, and sometimes they become stronger competitors in their new habitat.

Some populations of these eukaryotes have upped their survival odds even further by bringing their favorite bacterial food along with them to create a fresh crop that is seeded and consumed in the new habitat.

Last July, the group planted endangered Torreya taxifolia seedlings in new habitat patches north of their customary domain in Florida, where it is becoming too hot for the conifers to survive.

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This plan must have the effect of restoring 2.0 times the area of new cut habitat affected in the West Side Athabasca Range by the project.

Just months later, Schmidt re-created Cohen's natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a «think / do tank» based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head.

The Plan includes positive steps to require new energy development to be located in close proximity to existing road networks although the stated proximity of 200 metres may not be close enough to maintain undisturbed habitat (at pp 44 - 47), but nonetheless implementing this step with planning regulations that require access plans to be approved and enforced by Alberta Environment, Alberta Forestry, or the Alberta Energy Regulator — once again — seems like pie in the sky.

(c) Globalization has provided a new impetus to the destruction of the habitat and livelihood of indigenous communities in many countries of the South.

In 2017, The New York Times reported that the Bornean orangutan's population had declined by more than 80 percent in the last 75 years largely because of habitat losIn 2017, The New York Times reported that the Bornean orangutan's population had declined by more than 80 percent in the last 75 years largely because of habitat losin the last 75 years largely because of habitat loss.

His new habitat at the Etihad Stadium has seen Bony surrounded by metaphorically bigger, although physically smaller, fish and he genuinely looks out of place in the City squad.

Based on a plan drawn up free of charge by a Seattle architecture firm, the new zoo maintains the intimacy of the old zoo — a rustic place with dusty paths, teetering structures and the occasional mango tree in bloom — while enabling people to see animals in their natural habitats: paca in river forest, pumas in pineland, jaguarundi at the forest edge.

Mass Audubon has collaborated in a National Wildlife Federation (NWF) habitat restoration project on the North Shore, the Great Marsh Resiliency Partnership, which was selected by the New England office of the US Environmental Protection Agency to receive a 2017 Environmental Merit Award.

-- Mass Audubon has collaborated in a National Wildlife Federation (NWF) habitat restoration project on the North Shore, the Great Marsh Resiliency Partnership, which was selected by the New England Office of the US Environmental Protection Agency to receive a 2017 Environmental Merit Award.

This new award recognizes an individual for success in the preservation, enhancement, and restoration of a New England species and / or their habitat, as well as an enthusiasm for sharing information about their efforts and a commitment to inspiring future generations of conservation professionanew award recognizes an individual for success in the preservation, enhancement, and restoration of a New England species and / or their habitat, as well as an enthusiasm for sharing information about their efforts and a commitment to inspiring future generations of conservation professionaNew England species and / or their habitat, as well as an enthusiasm for sharing information about their efforts and a commitment to inspiring future generations of conservation professionals.

Fuertes (1874 - 1927), whose skill at depicting birds actively in their appropriate habitats was arguably greater even than that of John James Audubon, set a new standard for bird illustration.

A new season has dawned at Shedd Aquarium, and some new sights have sprung up in the rockhopper and Magellanic penguin habitat.

«BASC recommends that any new environmental scheme should recognise the value of shooting, especially in relation to conservation objectives associated with improving farm wildlife and habitats.

«From the complete destruction of the Rockaway Boardwalk to recreational assets and natural habitats broken up by wind and water, New York City's parks were faced with unprecedented damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,» Commissioner Mitchell Silver said.

New York has awarded more than $ 440,000 in grants for 10 projects to help communities protect water quality and habitats in the Hudson River watershed.

Federal agencies are weighing in on how a new designation recently issued for the sturgeon habitat near Indian Point impacts the Westchester nuclear power plant that is set to close by 2021.

«We appreciate Governor Cuomo's clear understanding, reflected in his proposed 2016 - 2017 budget, that New York must lead on water and land protection, renewable energy and habitat restoration,» Riverkeeper president Paul Gallay said.

The company opened a new Financial District storefront a year ago in a space previously occupied by Citi Habitats.

ALBANY, NY (11/12/2010)(readMedia)-- Governor David A. Paterson today announced $ 61.5 million in aid to local communities across New York to improve water quality, reduce pollution and restore vital habitat.

The tiny swimming larvae of these sea creatures, also known as moss animals, may live up to a week, long enough to settle in to a new habitat.

For example, fishing ranked as a top threat in North America and New Zealand, while habitat loss and climate change ranked higher in Europe.

Amphibians and reptiles, for instance, must often significantly scale back their activity levels in cooler weather, which puts them at a disadvantage when it comes to finding food, mates or new habitats, according to the research.

Future City: Apartments as Complete Habitats, 1932 City planning also took on new ideas, and developers began thinking in terms of convenience for apartment dwellers.

Piping plovers, a federally threatened species of shorebirds, are likely losing wetland breeding habitat in the Great Plains as a result of wetland drainage, climate change or both, according to a new U.S. Geological Survey study.

Funded by the Indian Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in New Delhi, this study examined how blackbuck reacted to the costs and benefits of living in this habitat.

The new study shows that stochastic influences also play an important part in determining the location of young trees, i.e. the type of habitat in which they will grow, which again turns tree species into generalists.

Earlier experiments have looked at why a certain species does better in a new environment than in its natural habitat.

A new analysis forecasts severe habitat fragmentation in the western Amazon Basin if some of the 160 planned dams are built in the region, where 142 dams are already.

New research has prompted scientists to call on policymakers to plant more trees alongside upland rivers and streams, in an effort to save their habitats from the future harm of climate change.

While oxygen is believed to have first accumulated in Earth's atmosphere around 2.45 billion years ago, new research shows that oceans contained plentiful oxygen long before that time, providing energy - rich habitat for early life.

The new report says that pugmarks fall short as a counting tool because they are drawn from an «unknown fraction» of the 300,000 square kilometers of tiger habitat in India and are difficult to locate in some terrain, including hard or rocky soil as well as mangrove swamps.

Also in January, the nonprofit group Reptile & Amphibian Ecology International (RAEI) announced that an expedition to the rain forests of coastal Ecuador had found new reptiles, insects, and amphibians whose habitat is threatened by climate change and deforestation.

Donna Kline, a fish ecologist at California State University in Monterey Bay, thinks that far from destroying a habitat, the trawl may have created a new one by etching grooves into the flat bottom.

The African rift zone and mountain building in West Africa generated new habitats for the evolving frogs, Wake noted.

Tumors are notoriously difficult to study in their natural habitat — body tissues — but a new synthetic tissue environment may give cancer researchers the next - best look at tumor growth and behavior.

Even if you are trying to replace like with like, it is far from clear if, for instance, the nightingales of Lodge Hill will, upon returning from overwintering in Africa, find their way to any new habitat created for them, still less whether they will find it to their liking.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

To see how the new habitats affected these populations, evolutionary ecologist Alexander Badyaev of Auburn University in Alabama and colleague Geoffrey Hill tagged thousands of birds at each site and followed their offspring from hatching through adulthood.

In other words, this new report shows that a huge turnover of species in habitats around the globe is under way, resulting in the creation of novel biological communitieIn other words, this new report shows that a huge turnover of species in habitats around the globe is under way, resulting in the creation of novel biological communitiein habitats around the globe is under way, resulting in the creation of novel biological communitiein the creation of novel biological communities.

As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to leave office, a commentary by a leading bioethicist analyzes his controversial public health policies and concludes that he is an urban innovator who created a new paradigm of public health, «reaching beyond infectious diseases to upstream risk factors in everyday life and the human habitat.&raqNew York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to leave office, a commentary by a leading bioethicist analyzes his controversial public health policies and concludes that he is an urban innovator who created a new paradigm of public health, «reaching beyond infectious diseases to upstream risk factors in everyday life and the human habitat.&raqnew paradigm of public health, «reaching beyond infectious diseases to upstream risk factors in everyday life and the human habitat.»

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.