Sentences with phrase «large herbivores»

In 2005 Zimov argued in Science that establishing herds of large herbivores in Siberia might one day change the region's scrubby, swampy tundra back to the grasslands that once stretched from one side of Eurasia to the other.

Evidence from isotopic data on Early Holocene bison and other large herbivores in northern Europe.

Native vegetation bounced back, and populations of large herbivores such as kangaroos increased.

The ants benefit from the tree by getting housing and sugar - rich nectar, and the tree benefits because the ants protect it from large herbivores such as elephants.

«An important way to create more self - managing ecosystems with a high level of biodiversity is to make room for large herbivores in the European landscape — and possibly reintroduce animals such as wild cattle, bison and even elephants.

Biologists worldwide are increasingly talking about using large herbivores like the ones sharp - eyed passengers can spot from the train to re-create prehistoric, and sometimes even prehuman, ecosystems.

Increases of rodents following large herbivore loss appear to be much more systematic than following other types of disturbance [73] probably due to generalized competitive release of herbivorous and granivorous rodents.

This is a reconstruction of a Last Interglacial temperate landscape (Germany) with typical Late Pleistocene European large herbivores such as the now extinct straight - tusked elephant (Elephas antiquus), an extinct rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis), as well as the still common roe deer (Capreolus capreolus).

«The acacia tree provides both food and housing for ants, whereas the ants deter large herbivores, primarily elephants, by delivering painful bites.

And describing large herbivores, quite frankly, has not been his focus.

In addition, many of Madagascar's plants have evolved defenses against large herbivores, such as spines and multiple leaf shapes that protect young sprouts from browsing tortoises.

Founded 19 years ago, it's a grand experiment to test whether large herbivores — elk, moose, reindeer, horses, and bison — can, by grazing, bring back a grass - dominated ecosystem called the mammoth steppe.

The rain animals depicted in rock art resemble large herbivores, such as cattle, hippos or antelopes, but often with strange features and proportions.

He points to research that shows that mammoths and other large herbivores trampling across the ancient Arctic ecosystems helped maintain the grasslands by knocking down trees and spreading grass seeds in the dung.

For most of history, artificial selection on large herbivores was probably weak, Marshall said.

«This once was a world that had ten times more whales; twenty times more anadromous fish, like salmon; double the number of seabirds; and ten times more large herbivores — giant sloths and mastodons and mammoths,» says Roman.

By increasing the abundance and distribution of elements like phosphorus, plants grow faster, meaning large herbivores are responsible for producing their own food and contributing to their lush habitats.

Woolly mammoths were one of the most common large herbivores in North America, Siberia, and Beringia until a warming climate and human hunters led to their extinction on the mainland about 10,000 years ago.

Even though there is no evidence that large herbivores ever grazed in isolated Ireland, the Irish pollen profile from oak and hazel is essentially the same as the rest of Europe's.

Donlan has proposed creating protected enclaves similar to Oostvaardersplassen, areas where the impact of large herbivore analogues could be studied.

Saber - toothed cats that roamed Los Angeles 12,000 years ago had many injuries to their shoulders and backbones that likely occurred when they killed large herbivore prey such as bison and horses, UCLA biologists report in the journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.

The woolly mammoth was a very large herbivore.

In Costa Rica, Brenes - Mora has seized on the connection between large herbivores and carbon sequestration as a way to highlight the importance of preserving the tapirs, under threat from habitat loss as pineapple plantations expand and from traffic on the Pan-American Highway.

Large herbivores help to combat the effects of climate change, a new study has shown.

New research links large herbivores to a forest's capacity to store carbon dioxide because of the animals» ability to disperse the larger seeds that become big trees, which store the most carbon.

«Early hominins of this period would have depended on nutrition from large herbivores.

Since hamster mouths are so small, a dremel tool is not safe to use as it is for larger herbivores such as rabbits and chinchillas.

Our results suggest the impact of feral cats could be reduced in most ecosystems by maximising grass cover, minimising the incidence of intense fires, and reducing grazing by large herbivores.

For example, some species of large herbivores with known migration patterns, especially those that are threatened by habitat degradation, climate change or human impact, may also benefit from the use of our methods.

Scott speculates that bison would have had multiple advantages over other large herbivores.

On the exhilarating game drives, guests can expect to see incredible bird life, and a variety of large herbivores such as waterbuck, zebra, kudu, nyala, wildebeest, impala, giraffe and warthog as well as hippo, elephant and crocodile.»

The large herbivores in Australia are instead kangaroos, which are obviously quite different from horses or antelopes.

Other large herbivores, such as three - horned ceratopsians and armored ankylosaurs, also roamed the area (SN: 6/24/17, p. 4).

«Large herbivores have shaped the European landscape,» he says.

With no large herbivores to eat, dire wolves, American lions and other carnivores would have starved as well.

Scientists previously thought that long - term drying of the climate contributed to the growth of grasslands in the area and the rise of large herbivores, which in turn may have shaped how humans developed.

So the question is: how does an environment support so many of these large herbivores at once?»

If you just sort of sit there and watch through the transition, you see, particularly with the large herbivores, as the tide starts to drop they seem to know it, and they jet.

According to Ibrahim, it's the humerus of a large herbivore, but he's waiting to find more related bones before describing it formally in a journal.

The sauropod group of dinosaur species consisted of large herbivores, some weighing up to 100 metric tons.

The peach spreads its single seed by virtue of fleshy deliciousness: A number of mammals happily devour the fruit, and the seed's large, armored shell allows it to pass safely through a large herbivore.

With the help of a graduate student, Williams will look for a kind of mammoth proxy: sporormiella, a fungus that lives in the dung of large herbivores, and grains of ancient pollen that can reveal what kind of vegetation once grew around the lake.

He illustrates the idea with a telling, if somewhat impractical example: «The permafrost, which has more carbon than all the rainforests put together, is at risk just by simple thawing, and a large herbivore like a mammoth could maintain it for another few decades against global warming,» Church says.

Today, there is no modern terrestrial ecosystem like that of ancient Abaco, with reptiles filling the roles of largest herbivore and carnivore.

Rainmakers had to lead a large herbivore from its home in a water hole, take it to a high place and slaughter it; where its blood ran, rain would fall.

The most revered of the animals are the larger herbivores.