Sentences with phrase «many habitat types»

Trapping and handling hundreds of woodrats (also known as packrats), the scientists found that the two species are highly associated with different habitat types, though they may live within meters of each other along the boundary.

In the European Union, among assessments of the conservation status of species and habitat types of conservation interest, only 7 % of marine species and 9 % of marine habitat types show a «favourable conservation status».

But the complexity of facial color patterns is not related to habitat type.

Darkness or lightness is explained by geography and habitat type.

These bursts were found in phylogenetic trees created for 22 microbial communities, chosen to represent a breadth of habitat types: plant, marine, and human gut and skin.

Lacking competition from other elk species in North America, they spread widely across many habitat types, from Pacific Northwest rain forests to sagebrush deserts.

«Based on our results it looks increasingly like sites which were predominantly heathland but are now a combination of heathland, grassland and woodland probably provide a better landscape for pollinators than a landscape with just one habitat type,» she explains.

In its native environment, the wild cat is adaptable to a variety of habitat types: savanna, open forest, and steppe.

The study, «Hydroacoustics as a tool to examine the effects of Marine Protected Areas and habitat type on marine fish communities,» appears Jan. 15 in the journal Scientific Reports.

Bocherens and his colleagues work on the assumption that Gigantopithecus's size, in connection with its restriction to one habitat type, doomed the giant apes.

Spinifex is a major habitat type across central Australia — from Queensland to Western Australia, including in the Simpson Desert where this study was conducted.

• proximity to habitat edge (where any of four natural habitat types might abut one another) and proximity to human - made features.

(iv) the potential for conservation of species or habitat types at serious risk due to climate change, ocean acidification, and other stressors.

This also means the birds presented different competition intensity in different habitat types and varying levels of competition to other seed eating species.

To spread the risk of losing one habitat type in a bleaching event or other natural disaster, managers should protect multiple examples (replicates) of the full range of marine habitat types, and spread them out to minimize the chance that they will all be wiped out by the same disturbance.

They note that further extended studies are needed, especially in large urbanized areas with varied habitat types, cat densities and prey availability.

Clifton's estimates are derived not from surveys of homeowners feeding stray and feral cats, but from «information about the typical numbers of cats found in common habitat types, gleaned from a national survey of cat rescuers... cross-compared with animal shelter intake data.»

This habitat type was once abundant, but is now rare.

Habitat: Cow parsnip grows in a wide variety of forested habitat types, grasslands, shrublands, meadows, alpine, and riparian zones.

This superb Madagascar itinerary will take you to some of the island's remotest corners, where rare wildlife and unique flora in two of Madagascar's most threatened habitat types - spiny bush («spi...

Habitat Big - eared bats have been reported in a wide variety of habitat types ranging from sea level to 3,300 meters.

Home range use by Island Foxes is influenced by various factors including topographic features, available habitat types, habitat - specific resource abundance, fox density, sex, and age (USFWS 2012).

«Because we are in such tremendous deficit of this post-fire habitat type, especially in this area, the Rim Fire is a good thing ecologically,» Hanson said.

The predominance of local vegetation in collected scat suggests little movement among habitat types between feeding sessions, indicating that the polar bears are keeping energy expenditure down.

In total, these tracts cover approximately 11 million acres of the Reserve and protect a variety of habitat types and species.

(iv) the potential for conservation of species or habitat types at serious risk due to climate change, ocean acidification, and other stressors.

Mountains provide some of the world's most spectacular landscapes and host an amazing diversity of species and habitat types.

The predominance of localized vegetation in scats suggests little movement among habitat types between feeding sessions.

Their entire livelihood is based largely on hunting and eating wild animals and birds, which has been effectively prohibited by the 1974 Wildlife Conservation Act, pushing them into more remote and marginal habitat types.

This desert woodpecker is tolerant of various habitat types within its range: broadleaf riparian groves, saguaro «forests,» and urban districts.

Komodo dragons live in three main habitat types: coastal mangroves, open savannahs, and fragmented shade forests.

These islands are volcanic in origin, and covered in many habitat types, but mainly forest and savannah.

The responses of sea urchin larvae to ocean acidification may be influenced by habitat type, and may also be species specific, leading to the suggestion that some species are more robust to ocean change stressors than others (i.e. «winners versus losers»)[68].

This was so because the directive is more protective of sites that host priority natural habitat type or a priority species.

123 However, where the SCI concerned hosts a priority natural habitat type and / or a priority species, the only considerations which may be raised, under the second subparagraph of Article 6 (4) of Directive 92/43, are those relating to human health or public safety, to beneficial consequences of primary importance for the environment or, further to an opinion from the Commission, to other imperative reasons of overriding public interest.

I conducted research on white - tailed deer including mapping and sampling of its habitat types determining habitat selection home range size and structure and conducted behavior and population dynamics studies using radio - tel...

Not exact matches

No predictions were made as to the future habitability of the Town of Tangier at 2100 or the types of habitat (upland or wetland) that might be present, though study authors did note that interior water had increased over time and that present upland ridges may need to be raised in the future.

But the other reason is that fossilization is a very rare event and only takes place in a few types of habitats (ones in which oxygen is absent for example).

Under low prices, farmers anticipate clearing forest for cereal, corn, or khat crops, or large government - sponsored sun coffee farms, threatening habitats of all types.

Discover different types of birds and their habitats.

Careful site selection for renewable facilities of all types is important to minimize the loss and fragmentation of wildlife habitat and forests that sequester carbon.

Grasslands and shrublands provide critical habitat for a wide range of plant and animal species, yet they are among the most rapidly declining types of habitat in Massachusetts.

Mass Audubon successfully conserves additional land all the time — from stands of old growth forest in the Berkshires to coastal habitats on the Cape and islands to the precious salt marsh of the North Shore — and every type of habitat in between.

«It's not the same type of habitat.

CORAL reefs have generated more types of animal than all other marine habitats put together.

«So we don't have good data on what types of habitat they're using.»

The new study shows that stochastic influences also play an important part in determining the location of young trees, i.e. the type of habitat in which they will grow, which again turns tree species into generalists.

The fur prices of coyotes and red foxes are also strongly correlated, and the two species occupy much of the same types of habitat, so they are equally likely to be targeted and caught in hunters» traps.

If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

That's how a new and improved habitat — whimsically called La Chalupa, Spanish for a type of fishing boat with a tendency to capsize — got its start.