Sentences with phrase «many habitat changes»

Wild animals are being displaced by domestic cattle, and their habitats changed mostly to the disadvantage of the wildlife, which sometimes is driven to extinction.

«In general, the public got the big threats right: fishing, habitat change, pollution, biodiversity loss, climate change,» says Lotze.

But some researchers have argued that the transition from the frigid climatic period known as the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)-- about 20,000 to 25,000 years ago — to the current warm Holocene Epoch brought habitat changes that killed off the mammoths with little or no help from humans.

Combining data on precipitation, topography, habitat changes, dam construction, and pollution, the researchers created detailed maps of the threats to rivers around the world.

Given widespread observation of habitat change and individual species declines — and knowing that extinction rates are many times higher than normal — the scientists predicted a drop, over time, in the number of species observed in most of these studies.

So habitat change in a limited area may threaten them.

He adds: «Plants native to European habitats changed by humans had a head start: They have been spread more often, and the living conditions in their new homes were ideal.

By understanding how these fishes evolved, by understanding how we got from the past to the present, we can create a model for predicting what's going to happen as global climates change, as deforestation continues, and all of these aquatic habitats change.

The more distant ties to chipmunks in Indiana and Michigan suggested a merging of multiple distinct populations about 200,000 years ago, most likely because of habitat change.

The species would be assessed to identify which are suffering as a result of various extinction pressures: agricultural expansion and / or intensification; habitat changes; and climate change, among others.

Both the passenger pigeon and woolly mammoth were functionally unique species, and when they went extinct, their habitats changed dramatically.

«Borneo's orangutans are coming down from the trees; Behavior may show adaptation to habitat change.»

For insects in Europe, climate change has led to habitat change.

Hundreds of other grasshopper species thriveddespite, or even because of, these habitat changes.

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.

«We literally put heaters around the forest floor and warmed the ant communities up to see what would happen so we could more precisely ask how extinction and colonization and occupancy of these local habitats change,» Pelini said.

The DNA analysis allowed the scientists to infer the timeline for the habitat changes of the Central Highlands — it happened thousands of years before humans arrived on the island.

Beginning approximately 37,000 years ago, the bison began to decline, perhaps because of climate and habitat changes associated with the developing ice age.

«We started this because state and federal agencies, such as the Wyoming Game and Fish Department, and the U.S. Geological Survey, were interested in the effects of habitat change on nongame species of wildlife,» she says.

Even if you ignore all the temperature meauserments which you seem to vehimently deny there is still many other sources of evidence associated with this increase such as — ice melt / extreme weather events / sea current changes / habitat changes / CO2 / ice cores / sediment cores.

Dr. Beth Shapiro, whose work focuses on how populations of organisms respond to climate and habitat change over time, has isolated ancient DNA from a variety of Pleistocene and Holocene species.

As with trees, species losses occur gradually as habitats change, the researchers found.

Evolutionary history on Bermuda offers numerous examples of the direct and indirect impact of changing sea level on evolutionary processes [111]--[112], with a number of taxa being extirpated due to habitat changes, greater competition, and island inundation [113].

«Caribou can respond to habitat change in three ways:,» said Kris Hundertmark, co-author and wildlife biologist - geneticist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Institute of Arctic Biology.

Glacial climatic fluctuations caused habitat changes, including the appearance of continental ice sheets as far south as Washington State [37], that may have caused range shifts in locally adapted gray fox populations, with foxes with clade B haplotypes existing as far south as southern California.

As habitats change, scientists are asking whether insects, migratory songbirds, caribou and other animals that have evolved to exploit the tundra environment will adapt.

The ocelot is a vulnerable creature, susceptible to habitat changes like roads, agriculture, housing developments and trapping.

They survived dramatic climate change, habitat change and rising seas.

Reptiles, birds and mammals in the Bahamas survived climate change, habitat change and rising seas... only to succumb when man showed up.

Species that evolved in a closed island environment may not be able to adapt when their habitat changes.

In undiscovered realms already of technology and population, land use and habitat change, this CO2 needlessly compounds our uncertainties.

A new paper that combines paleoclimatology data for the last 56 million years with molecular genetic evidence concludes there were no biological extinctions [of Arctic marine animals] over the last 1.5 M years despite profound Arctic sea ice changes that included ice - free summers: polar bears, seals, walrus and other species successfully adapted to habitat changes that exceeded those predicted by USGS and US Fish and Wildlife polar bear biologists over the next 100 years.

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Now that the IPCC has belatedly recognized the importance of land - use changes on climate, possibly the world's wealthy elites will no longer be able to invest in major natural habitat changing projects.

Rather, the regime shifts in the HCS are related to 3D habitat changes driven by changes in upwelling intensity from both regional and large ‐ scale forcing.

Evolutionary history on Bermuda offers numerous examples of the direct and indirect impact of changing sea level on evolutionary processes [111]--[112], with a number of taxa being extirpated due to habitat changes, greater competition, and island inundation [113].

Polar bears move around as sea ice habitat changes — this is what resilience looks like Posted April 14, 2014

The significant risks — exploitation and habitat change — emerge out of poverty.

To the long list of predicted consequences of global warming — stronger storms, methane release, habitat changes, ice - sheet melting, rising seas, stronger El Niños, killer heat waves — we must now add abrupt, catastrophic coolings.

DAVID AINLEY et al — 2010 Antarctic penguin response to habitat change as Earth's troposphere reaches 28C above preindustrial levels

But recent logging near their natural habitat changed all that.

Researchers say that smaller creatures tend to be the most resilient to many habitat changes, and that the loss of their larger predators may actually be a boon to them — but this may matter little if changes in weather patterns come about as climatologists have warned.

Agriculture and food consumption are identified as one of the most important drivers of environmental pressures, especially habitat change, climate change, water use and toxic emissions.

Given the close cultural connection between the natural environment and Islander culture, habitat change that impacts significant fauna (for example, reduction in turtle nesting beaches, migratory bird foraging or sea grass bed decline) is likely to affect Islanders» mental well - being.

Not exact matches

The bee population has been declining in the past few decades — 700 bee species are heading toward extinction — due to changes in agricultural processes, habitat loss, and pesticides.

An exchange that used to house more than 5,000 traders shouting out their business now is a mostly docile habitat in which those still left on the floor quietly tap out orders on hand - held computers and barely make a peep at swift changes in market activity.

If we look to federal jurisdiction, the National Energy Board has issued a series of decisions since 2010, with input from Environment and Climate Change Canada, requiring offsetting for caribou and other species at risk and rare or sensitive habitats.

May 1, 2018: Yesterday, the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada released the first ever section 63 report under the Species at Risk Act, (SARA), where the Minister found that outside of protected areas, provinces and territories have failed to protect almost all of boreal caribou critical habitat.

When these changes take effect, on a date which has yet to be announced, the prohibition on altering a fish's habitat will be replaced with a prohibition on causing «serious harm to fish that are part of a commercial, recreational or Aboriginal fishery, or to fish that support such a fishery.»