Sentences with phrase «island size on»

«Where other people have looked at effects of island size on restricted numbers of species or restricted levels in food chains, we did the full thing across four levels,» he specifies.

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.

Greens and Chevron set to face off over Gorgon vision Chevron is set for fresh battles with WA's powerful green lobby group after the US giant said yesterday it wanted to nearly double the size of the $ 50 billion Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on environmentally fragile Barrow Island off WA's North West.

A Cook County sheriff's deputy and a Chicago police officer on a routine helicopter patrol last year spotted a pot farm the size of two football fields brazenly planted right off Stony Island Avenue and 105th Street.

If we ask why birds on one isolated island have beaks different from those on others, the Darwinian answer is that they have adapted to the size and other features of edible seeds where they live.

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!

I am sure there are lovers of things just like this and maybe I could be too if I was on a desert island with nothing else to eat and a bong the size of my leg but really, I could see no other way of enjoying this.

Visitors can also grab a meaty burger to go along with their brew at local eateries including 1909, with their famous 1909 Burger or Bison Burger made with a free - range patty, smoked applewood bacon, horseradish havarti, red onion, tomato, wild baby arugula, and garlic aioli; Cork Fire Kitchen's Chef's Grilled Burger with tomato, lettuce, pickles, onions, mayonnaise, choice of aged cheddar, swiss, or pepper jack cheese; Creekside Grille at Wilson Creek Winery serving the Creekside Burger made with natural ground chuck, lettuce, onion, cabernet vinegar pickles, fiscalini white cheddar, and house thousand island on a brioche bun; Crush & Brew, offering three varieties of sliders and full - size burgers (paired with must - indulge French fries) including the Crush Burger with red onion marmalade, brie, and Canadian bacon; E.A.T. Marketplace, serving burgers on Fridays including the EAT Burger made with grass - fed California beef, organic farm greens, fontina cheese, organic salad greens, and house pesto aioli; and the Tilted Kilt Pub & Eatery, serving up The Double D Burger, made with two deep - fried patties, applewood smoked bacon, cheddar cheese, Lilt Burner mayo, lettuce, and tomato.

On all three islands, chiles of every size and heat level are lovingly grown and added to a cuisines that can generically be called Creole.

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.

He found that the food available on the Island that the finches fed on were different sizes and that the beaks were more adapted the size of seed available.

A life - sized Thomas the Tank Engine arrived at NYC's Brooklyn Bridge Park, on a barge last week, to celebrate the HIT Entertainment's DVD release of the Thomas & Friends Misty Island Rescue and to introduce the newest Thomas toys from Fisher - Price.

Prevention messages and strategies might also have been better absorbed on Staten Island because of the borough's size and geographic separation from the rest of the city.

Polling guru Nate Silver reviewed the tracking polls and said that while none were perfect, «Rasmussen — with its large sample size and high pollster rating — would probably be the one I'd want with me on a desert island» [10].

Jacobs said that includes improvements to the Scajaquada Expressway, extending Metro Rail to the DL&W Terminal, redevelopment of the former Bethlehem Steel site, $ 10 million for Say Yes to Education, $ 20 million to expand class sizes at the University at Buffalo medical school and $ 20 million to build a Visitor Welcome Center on Grand Island, among other capital projects.

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.

SOME 13,000 years ago, on a tropical island at the heart of the Indonesian archipelago, an extraordinary group of dwarf - sized people lived alongside dwarf elephants and giant lizards.

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.

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.

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 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.

The authors point out that extreme sized animals tend to be found on islands because they fill ecological niches left unexploited by other organisms that never made it to the island.

The shape and size of the beak are crucial for finch survival on the islands, which periodically experience extreme droughts, El Niño - driven rains and volcanic activity.

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

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.

On Friday, January 13, 2012, about 9:45 P.M., the Costa Concordia, more than twice the size of the Titanic, struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just offshore of Giglio Island near the western coast of Italy.

Teeth and bones of the extinct bat — which was about three times the size of an average bat today — were recovered from 19 to 16 - million - year - old sediments near the town of St Bathans in Central Otago on the South Island.

Maximum sea depth between the mainland and islands was a secondary driver of body size, with treeshrews on islands separated from the mainland by deeper waters typically exhibiting larger body size, the researchers said.

In order to determine treeshrew body size from populations on the Malay Peninsula and 13 offshore islands, the researchers measured 260 specimens collected over the past 122 years and housed in six natural history museums in Europe and North America.

Researchers have already published one study showing the number and size of California mussels on one island off the coast of Washington state were reduced as the pH decreased, he noted.

The island rule predicts that populations of small mammals evolve larger body size on islands than on the mainland, whereas island - bound large mammals evolve smaller body size than their mainland counterparts.

The study also showed that treeshrews on smaller islands tend to have smaller body size.

Nestled 8,000 feet up the northern slope of Mauna Loa on the Big Island, our base consisted of a two - story domed habitat complete with a kitchen, dining room, workspaces, lab, two bathrooms and six bedrooms roughly the size of large closets.

«The current recovery plan doesn't recognize that there are two distinct taxa on the islands; therefore, monitoring of population size and habitat use that treats all Hawaiian bats as a single unit is likely providing measures that are overestimated and not accurate for either taxon.»

The thylacine, a hyena - size marsupial predator with long jaws and a spectacular gape, roamed freely on the island of Tasmania until the Europeans arrived around 1800.

Here we report that a Darwin's finch species (Geospiza fortis) on an undisturbed Galápagos island diverged in beak size from a competitor species (G. magnirostris) 22 years after the competitor's arrival, when they jointly and severely depleted the food supply.

A study of red deer on a Scottish island reveals some of the first evidence in wild mammals of a clear link between brain size and evolutionary fitness

Beak size in a finch Geospiza fortis on one Galápagos island diverged from that of a competitor (G. magnirostris) two decades after the latter's arrival.

In 2002 a Rhode Island — sized hunk of the Larsen B ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula shattered into thousands of icebergs during the peninsula's hottest summer on record (SN: 3/30/02, p. 197).

The find comes thanks to a 2007 ecological survey, which noted an unexpected decline in the number of North American eastern gray squirrels (S. carolinensis) on the island — and a concomitant rise in the number of pine martens (Martes martes), cat - sized, squirrel - eating carnivores.

Given that the So'a hominins were already hobbit - sized 700,000 years ago, and that H. erectus didn't arrive on neighbouring islands until about 1.2 million years ago, the hominins would have had only a few 100,000 years to shrink perhaps 70 centimetres to just 1 metre tall, and shed about half their adult brain volume.

New fossils now indicate some giant pterosaurs probably did dine on bigger prey, such as dwarf dinosaurs the size of a small horse, 70 million years ago on an island that became modern - day Transylvania.

By careful measurements of the population of two species on one tiny island over the course of major weather changes such as El Niño events and droughts, the Grants were able to show that evolutionary changes in beak size and body size can occur in as little as a couple of years.

Oppel and his team found that they could use audio recordings to estimate a bird's population size after testing the method on a raucous colony of Cory's shearwaters that breeds on a small island in the Azores called Corvo.

FDA has signed off only on AquaBounty's current breeding and growing setup, in which fish are bred at a facility on Prince Edward Island in Canada, and sterilized female eggs are flown to the highlands of Panama to be grown to market size.

The international research team used the 2.5 - meter Nordic Optical Telescope on the island of La Palma, Spain, a moderate - sized facility by today's standards but equipped with state - of - the - art instruments, to make the detection.