Sentences with phrase «in urban habitats»

«Whether a species can survive in urban habitats depends on whether or not it can adapt acoustically,» says Potvin.

The natural place of cats in the food chain is as hunters of mice, rats, and other small rodents, who in urban habitat are themselves overwhelmingly of introduced species, and as scavengers of sick and injured birds who remain on the ground after dark, when healthy birds are roosting and cats do most of their hunting.

The advent of motor vehicles took working animals off the streets; the advent of refrigerator eliminated raising and slaughtering animals for meat, milk, and eggs in urban habitat; spay / neuter and a rapid rise in keeping dogs and cats indoors eradicated most of the dogs and cats who were formerly at large.

Reconstructed dynamics of rapid extinctions of chaparral - requiring birds in urban habitat islands.

Not exact matches

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citieIn environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citiein the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of citiein the vicinity of cities.

All ages Birds of prey and their habitats are fascinating, as are the adjustments they've made to thrive in urban environments.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

Residents» capacity to produce their community by defining the meanings of their urban habitat is one of the most crucial — and yet highly overlooked — rights to be exercised in current society.

Each habitat park is unique in its setting, providing a natural sanctuary for native plants and animals to thrive among urban surroundings.

Erie County residents have a remarkable 20 + acres of natural habitat and shoreline access in an urban South Buffalo neighborhood.

The funds have been awarded to municipalities and Soil and Water Conservation districts to address major sources of water pollution and habitat degradation in dozens of urban, suburban and rural 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.»

Conserving green spaces, restoring native plant species and adding biodiversity - friendly habitats within urban landscapes could, in turn, support more bird and plant species.

It can be challenging to find a suitable habitat for bald eagles in a city, but the advantage of an urban reintroduction, he says, is that more people can enjoy the birds and be educated by their presence.

«If trees were to be established throughout their potential cover area, they would serve to filter air and water pollutants and reduce building energy use, and improve human well - being while providing habitat and resources for other species in the urban area.»

Most of the invasive populations are restricted to urban and suburban habitats, which may be selecting for some key traits that increase fitness of individuals in those environments,» said co-author Elizabeth Hobson, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, which helped support the research.

A new paper published in the Journal of Biogeography today (13 October 2014) concludes that the harlequin ladybird, an invasive alien species first recorded in the UK in 2004, has a preference for urban areas and sunnier habitats.

«It is suffering from warmer temperatures even where the habitat is still in good shape and has trouble moving north past the urban sprawl of San Diego and Los Angeles.»

About 50 % of its habitat has been modified by human activity, and those regions are now being invaded by exotic Argentine ants, which thrive in urban and agricultural areas and are becoming a scourge in California and much of the southern United States.

It is the urban whale, because its habitat is usually within one hundred miles of the U.S. coastline and in busy shipping lanes.

«In this case, urban landscapes provide excellent habitat for disease - carrying mosquitoes and rats.

But in the habitat of the urban whale, in the coastal areas of the Eastern Seaboard, there are many ships and less space.

Here, we used a reciprocal cross-fostering design to test whether being reared in an urban versus a rural habitat influences early - life TL in great tits (Parus major L.).

We reciprocally cross-fostered urban and rural nestling great tits (Parus major L.) to study how growing up in an urban versus rural habitat affected telomere length (TL)-- a suggested biomarker of longevity.

Urban environments differ from natural habitats in many regards and are for instance associated with higher levels of anthropogenic pollution, such as traffic noise, artificial light pollution and air pollution, which enhance oxidative stress and inflammatory responses.

«An important further point to address is the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in ornamental plants grown in greenhouses, which at the moment does not seem to be addressed — urban gardens have become an ever more important habitat for wild bees.»

Native predators including both red and grey foxes, coyotes, hawks, owls, eagles, fishers and bobcats made spectacular comebacks in urban and suburban habitat nationwide.

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.

Forbush favored tracking and treeing cats with dogs before shooting them, a procedure which in the urban and suburban feral cat habitat of today would be considered both impractical and inhumane.

The gist of their findings was that cats were occupying habitat left by a declining population of street dogs, at the rate of about three cats moving in to replace each dog who could no longer make a living after refuse was mostly buried or burned, sewers were enclosed, and automobiles replaced animal - powered transport, resulting in an urban environment much less congenial to dogs.

The lakes and river provide a natural habitat for turtles, fish, muskrats and occasional family of beaver in an urban setting.

Recreational and other human disturbance, loss of habitat to urban development, introduction of beachgrass and other nonnative species, and expanding predator populations have all contributed to a decline in active nesting areas and in the size of the breeding and wintering populations.

The Coronado Butterfly Preserve is home to native coastal sage scrub habitat, eucalyptus groves and numerous birds and wildlife that thrive in this urban community treasure.

CONSERVATION VALUE This urban creation of the Inca Empire, which appears to have been naturally cut in the continuous rock escarpment, is an area of outstanding natural beauty which encompasses patches of high altitude habitats and associated wildlife.

Height: 11 feet tall Weight: Over 700 pounds Natural habitat: Bioengineered, designed for urban environments Defensive mechanisms: Thick, hardened carapace; machete - like talons Weaknesses: Tactically inept Appears in: Dead Nation

This substantial transformation of the landscape at Laguna Gloria will improve the riparian community along the Colorado River and provide habitat to wide - ranging wildlife, contributing to the health of the urban environment in Austin.

Animal habitats conflict and clash in Nick Brandt's epic panoramas strategically placed among Kenya's urban decay

As the third instalment in Gary Hustwit's trilogy on the impact and function of design in the modern world, Urbanized is a concise exploration of the urban habitat of the Homo sapien.

Like the animals they encounter, migrating through rural, suburban, and urban areas, the Tush Hogs remain in a state of constant adaptation as they search for a more hospitable habitat.

The NTU CCA Ideas Fest is an invitation to share and engage in cooperative projects and collective experiences that critically reflect on current challenges in urban development and future habitats.

the chart fails to show that soy from brazil, the stuff served in that meatless urban restraunt menu, has many times the embodied energy of eating local grass fed beef, that the corn suggested as least energy consuming is only so due to vast scales of industrial monocroping that wipes out diversity and local edible foods habitat (and is used largely for pig and cow fodder if not biofuels, and so lays waste to half the midwest), that milk from a pastured cow or goat, or eggs from pastured chickens, are gaining thier energy from sources no human could eat.

I float the idea that folks in and around the tropics use the hashtag #ZikaDengueHotSpot with images showing waste piles or other untended spots creating habitat for the mosquito behind these urban outbreaks.

In the hopes of increasing local bee numbers, University of Buffalo architecture students created this intriguing wild urban bee habitat.

Preliminary modeling efforts to incorporate current and future land - use estimates showed that reduced habitat from increased urban and agricultural development led to further declines in projected diversity, but did not qualitative alter the outcomes presented here.

In Chicago, the green roof we helped design for City Hall is covered with mostly native vegetation, which offers urban habitat to the butterflies and birds of the region.

Currently she is working on projects to increase pollinator friendly habitat in Maryland, to study urban pollution using honey bees as environmental samplers, and to investigate the biophysical properties of plants during the pollination event.

They see, and document, worrisome declines in fresh water availability and purity; growing urban air pollution; loss of habitat and bio-diversity; ocean acidification, and much more.»

Based on the goals of «Urban Habitats,» a design competition held in 2005 by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville and the Charlottesville Community Design Center for the redevelopment of a local trailer park, this book frames sixteen design opportunities for affordable, dense, compact, and sustainable housing.

In the West, the populated fire zone is called the urban wildland interface, a clunky term to describe a vulnerable habitat for almost 40 percent of new homes built over the last two decades.

The green roof offers a host of benefits, including mitigating the urban heat island effect, providing a wildlife habitat, and reducing the impervious surface in its neighborhood.