Sentences with phrase «like species habitat»

The researchers looked at past associations between the threat of extinction and the ecological traits like species habitat zone, and examined the same associations in modern marine animals.

Not exact matches

Even granting something like the teleological order I have asserted, however, some may doubt that this formulation adequately states our responsibilities to our natural habitat, especially responsibilities to the diversity of species in the nonhuman world and to individual animals, at least within species whose members exhibit the capacity to suffer.

At the same time, we would like to see not merely the preservation of existing wilderness, but changes in human habitat and land use that would allow us to share the land much more generously with other species.

We like to inform our customers about new product releases, recipes ideas and most importantly how their chocolate purcashe helps support species, habitat & humanity.

,» you're going to hear answers like; climate change, species extinction and habitat destruction.

The lands also will be managed for improved wildlife habitat for seven species of national importance, like the New England cottontail, and four hawk species listed by the New York State Endangered Species Act — Cooper's hawk, red - shouldered hawk, broad - winged hawk and northern gspecies of national importance, like the New England cottontail, and four hawk species listed by the New York State Endangered Species Act — Cooper's hawk, red - shouldered hawk, broad - winged hawk and northern gspecies listed by the New York State Endangered Species Act — Cooper's hawk, red - shouldered hawk, broad - winged hawk and northern gSpecies Act — Cooper's hawk, red - shouldered hawk, broad - winged hawk and northern goshawk.

«Usually, several species of wildlife live in a forest habitat, due to their biological traits like life history, strategy and diet, and their responses to livestock introduction are different too,» said Zhang, who also is an associate professor at China West Normal University.

The changes shown through 2050 could lead to lost habitat, the isolation of some species and the rise of «dispersal barriers» — like a wall of new development that prevents plants and animals from migrating.

The paper doesn't provide policy recommendations, but Williams notes that areas that are currently less developed, like the Midwest, might consider land - use plans that preserve «habitat connectivity» so species can move.

In most cases, managing these bees means providing habitat in which they can nest, like drilled wooden boards or hole - studded stone blocks for cavity - nesting species like the blue orchard bee.

Narrow species ranges and fragmented appropriate habitats (as well as man - made and natural barriers like cities and mountains) will make it hard for more temperate and tropical plants to move.

But he adds that future studies should take into account additional variables such as whether the animals are active at day or night and what the species's habitat is like.

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

The biologist is tracking the insects as they move through the Southwest and threaten habitats of native species, like the Southwestern willow flycatcher.

Today, many ecosystems are like the Colorado River: an amalgam of native and non-native species living in human - altered habitat.

Using DNA extracted from the remains of extinct giant lemurs like this sloth lemur (genus Palaeopropithecus), researchers aim to better understand why Madagascar's largest lemurs were wiped out, and what makes some lemur species more vulnerable to hunting and habitat loss today.

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

Church says reviving an extinct species like the woolly mammoth might be more justified if it also addresses an issue like habitat preservation in the face of climate change.

The World Conservation Union ranks the loss of native habitat and the introduction of invasive species as the most crucial problems, but unchecked activities like fishing, hunting, and logging play a role — as does human - induced climate change.

But just like all wild plant species, these «crop wild relatives» (CWR) are also at risk of decline and extinction due to habitat loss, pollution, and climate change.

More challenging to preserve are species that require a lot of land, like elephants, and species that have highly specific requirements for habitat and prey — and a poor public image — like black - footed ferrets.

Tuatara, like many native New Zealand animals, were threatened by habitat loss, harvesting, and introduced species such as mustelids and rats.

In short, it appears that our technology has created ways of accelerating change (genetic engineering, for instance) and new habitats (like the modern city), essentially fracturing our biology and transforming our future as a species.

Like giant salvinia, it depletes oxygen and prevents light from penetrating the water's surface, rendering freshwater habitats uninhabitable for most native aquatic species.

Crops like alfalfa provide critical habitat for the Long - billed Curlew, the largest shorebird in North America and a species of continental conservation concern.

In the 4FRI treatment zone, they provide habitat for species like the endangered Mexican spotted owl, mule deer and other animals that depend on a thick canopy to survive.

«It suggests that the findings we can manage locally, like pesticides, habitat destruction and planting companion plants, can actually make a difference because these factors can buy pollinators time for natural selection and evolution, thus allowing the species to keep pace with the things that we can't manage locally,» said Galen.

«In fact, the miniature species are locally abundant and fairly common but they have probably been overlooked because of their extremely small size, secretive habitats and insect - like calls,» says Sonali Garg who undertook this study as part of her PhD research at University of Delhi.

«Seven new species of night frogs from India including four miniature forms: Scientists were surprised by the relative abundance of the 4 new miniature species and believe that these frogs were overlooked because of their insect - like calls and secretive habitats.»

«It is a significant find, in part because all other ancient fossil ursine bears, and even some modern bear species like the sloth bear and sun bear, are associated with lower - latitude, milder habitats,» says co-author Dr. Rybczynski.

«Because climate change affects some environmental factors like precipitation and temperature but not others like day length, phenotypic plasticity could allow some species to persist in a habitat despite changing conditions and provide more time for them to evolve and migrate,» says co-author Zachariah Gezon, a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth.

Of the 56 known species, many live in remote habitats like marshlands and rain forests, and some are endangered.

Nothing pushes a species to extinction like wiping out its habitat.

Although MPAs can work well at protecting habitats like coral reefs and nonmigratory wildlife such as the coconut crab, the authors say that more effort needs to be made to protect migratory species such as the green turtle and the hawksbill turtle from poachers, marine debris, and fishing gear entanglement.

Professor Connolly explains that it's often the really abundant species that deliver substantial ecosystem services like providing habitat for fishes, or keeping reefs clear of seaweeds.

Thanks to things like climate change and habitat destruction, this «bottom - up extinction» has ecologists scrambling to save key species.

When the ice age ended, these ancient species and other, more recent ones were ready to take advantage of habitats that opened up in the mountains» higher elevations — and the plants and trees speciated like mad.

Studies like this one could enable us to predict which species will be most vulnerable to population declines due to habitat changes, as the inflexible specialist species are more likely to suffer when they can't find enough of their preferred food.

But for other species, like the black salamander, a changing climate produces new pockets of habitat to the north, but they don't ever overlap the salamander's current or future range in the San Francisco Bay Area, leaving the animals stranded.

The area is dotted with uninhabited islands and reefs that provide perfect habitat for some 7,000 different species of marine wildlife, a quarter of which, like the monk seal, are found nowhere else on the planet.

When FWS first proposed critical habitat for the endangered Cape Sable seaside sparrow, based on his 2 decades of research on the species, Pimm liked the map.

The species» area of distribution is very restricted, and has decreased even further due to the degradation of its habitat as a result of various agricultural activities, like farming and cattle.

But some pairs of species appear to be «aggregated,» meaning they tend to appear together in nature more often than one would expect by chance — like cheetahs and giraffes who both depend on savannah habitats.

Our study shows that in addition to habitat fragmentation, the addition of human - made structures benefit ravens, whereas some species of raptors like the Ferruginous Hawk have been impacted and limited in nesting areas,» said study lead author Peter Coates, an ecologist with the USGS Western Ecological Research Center.

Throughout history, pirates and whalers have fed on the animals, and introduced pest species like goats to the islands, destroying the tortoises» habitat.

He explains, «Like oysters, beavers, and termites, these boring clams alter the landscape and provide new habitat for other species.»

«Long - term projections of the type presented here are always crude caricatures but I like this study because it does take a more mechanistic approach based on the known habitat requirements of the species rather than using a more traditional and simplistic thermal envelope model,» he said.

«It's amazing that something we now take for granted, cooking, was such a transformational technology which gave us the big brains that have made us the only species to study ourselves and to generate knowledge that transcends what was observed firsthand; to tamper with itself, fixing imperfections with the likes of glasses, implants and surgery and thus changing the odds of natural selection; and to modify its environment so extensively (for better and for worse), extending its habitat to improbable locations.»

The study says that massive sponges like this one provide «key ecosystem services such as filtering large amounts of seawater, as well as providing important habitat to a myriad of invertebrate and microbial species.»

They also provide habitat for rare and temperature - sensitive species like bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus), cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii), and pearlshell mussels (Margaritifera margaritifera).