Sentences with phrase «landscapes as habitat»

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Increase forest cover with native species in degraded areas, improve the climate resiliency of coffee plants as a result of restoring tree cover, and enhance habitat value in the coffee - growing landscape.

According to the World Resources Institute, an ecosystem is made up of the organisms of a particular habitat, such as a farm or forest, together with the physical landscape in which they live.

Stefanie Covino, Coordinator of the Shaping the Future of Your Community program notes, «Our water resources are increasingly stressed, but conserving and restoring the natural landscape with native plants can offer social, environmental, and economic benefits such as improved air quality, property values, energy savings, and habitat — both locally and downstream.»

Through this state - of - the - art technology learning initiative, scientists, educators, and students will be able to interpret changes in the Tidmarsh landscape as it is documented using video cameras and hundreds of electronic sensors embedded in the habitats of the site.

This includes restoring natural systems, minimizing stressors such as invasive species and residential development, increasing habitat diversity, and connecting protected landscapes.

«We know she has been hugely supportive of shooting's role in everything from landscape - scale conservation projects to local habitat creation and management and recognises shooting as a cornerstone of the countryside.

Today, as an extension of our commitment to the preservation and public enjoyment of this remarkable landscape, we join forces with the administration to create a gateway facility for visitors to better appreciate and enjoy Minnewaska's dramatic Hudson Valley views, renowned carriage roads and important natural features and habitats.»

And those are now rivaling habitat loss and the exploitation of the Earth for economic growth as a source of declining species and pristine landscapes.

The authors examine the concept and importance of maintaining connectivity (ability of wildlife populations to move among landscapes between habitat «islands» such as mountain tops, forest fragments and isolated wetlands) and corridor ecology.

On landscapes with both open and closed habitat structure, they may use a combined strategy of hiding in forest cover to lower predator encounter rates and seeking open terrain, such as grasslands, where predation risk may be reduced.

Tree species that are already at the southern end of their range, such as balsam fir, quaking aspen, white spruce, and tamarack, are expected to decline over the next century while American basswood, black cherry, eastern white pine, red maple, sugar maple, and white oak may gain suitable habitat across the landscape.

The software, which was developed by the team as part of a knowledge exchange project, identifies the best locations for habitat creation and restoration to improve connectivity across landscapes.

So, the task for Boal and other researchers becomes ensuring eagle habitats and the landscape are as conducive as possible to ensure survival and reproduction while at the same time having mitigation policies in place for landowners who erect wind turbine farms that could endanger eagles.

Intensify conservation efforts in the large landscapes required for snow leopard survival by identifying and designating critical habitats of key snow leopard populations as no - go areas for destructive land uses, maintaining their integrity and connectivity through natural corridors, and strengthening their protection on the ground.

A slew of factors associated with human activity threaten our natural landscapes, such as conversion of forests to agriculture, habitat fragmentation, and chemical contamination.

This variety of wildlife and habitats provides a fantastic opportunity for all types of field study as your class explores the unique landscape of the marshes.

Today, Katmai National Park and Preserve remains an active volcanic landscape, but it also protects 9,000 years of human history as well as important habitat for salmon and thousands of brown bears.

Mongolia / Russia • The landscapes of Dauria, an example of the Daurian Steppe ecoregion, which extends from eastern Mongolia into Russian Siberia and northeastern China, including grassland, forest, lakes and wetlands that serve as habitats for rare species of fauna.

This hotel has nicely landscaped grounds that serve as a habitat for a few llamas.

This successful eco-business provides a range of fun tours that focus on the wildlife and natural landscapes of Sanibel Island, including a mangrove kayak tour that journeys through the mangrove forests and observes native wildlife such as alligators and nesting birds in their natural habitat.

Today, Katmai National Park and Preserve remains an active volcanic landscape, but it also protects 9,000 years of human history as well as important habitat for salmon and the thousands of brown bears that feed on them.

The black and white photography series of Renos Evryviades - Wideson (b. 1920) Buffavento Castle (1950), Harvest Time (1953), and St. Hilarion Castle - Aerial (1955) as well as Zenon Sierepeklis» (b. 1947) Latchi (1998/99), Terra (1999), and Latchi (2002) unfold the transition from documentary and landscape photography to a more conceptual rendering of space imbued through the aesthetics of industrialization and monumentality as a result of human intervention on natural habitats.

In contrast to Nestler's installation are Robin Stein's photographs of stark dwellings dotting the desert landscape, whose residents are utilizing the land as a habitat, albeit its hostile and unyielding characteristics.

The vertically growing hydroponic gardens serve as the recreational «parks» within the habitat, disrupting the alien monotony of Mars» landscape while also supplementing the crew's food and oxygen.

On the other hand, the equivalent nuclear generation might at a rougn guess occupy a hundred square miles or so (in a few hundred sites dispersed over the country), most of which can be nicely landscaped and used as habitat by wild creatures.

«In addition to providing essential ecosystem services, including water regulation across the landscape and habitat for unique biodiversity, peatlands are globally important for their prominent role as a carbon pool and sink,» says Kristell Hergoualc» h, a CIFOR scientist, and contributor to the special issue and IUFRO session.

As primary habitats move north, which species will be able to keep up with changing habitats on their own or with human intervention through assisted migration, management of migration corridors, or construction or maintenance of protected habitats within species» current landscapes?

Meanwhile, their habitat continues to vanish as oil palm plantations metastasize across the Indonesian and Malaysian landscapes.

Of particular concern are species now much reduced in numbers of individuals and restricted to protected habitat islands, such as national parks, that are surrounded by humandominated landscapes where survival of the affected species is not possible without changing societal norms (Early and Sax, 2011).

It is important to note that these impacts do not take account of ancillary stresses on species due to over-harvesting, habitat destruction, landscape fragmentation, alien species invasions, fire regime change, pollution (such as nitrogen deposition), or for plants the potentially beneficial effects of rising atmospheric CO2.