Sentences with phrase «many island ecosystems»

During 2015 Mass Audubon's Salt Marsh Science Project (SMS) and Plum Island Ecosystems Long Term Ecological Research (PIE LTER) began involvement via our Schoolyard K - 12 education program with the Michigan State University NSF sponsored Data Nuggets activity.

Course Collaborators Mass Audubon's Endicott Wildlife Sanctuary (Lead Institution), Glen Urquhart School, Plum Island Ecosystems LTER

Seamlessly intertwining lyrical travelogue with ecological science, journalist Emma Marris explores conservation efforts worldwide, venturing from fragile island ecosystems in Hawaii to a seemingly primeval forest in Poland and Belarus.

Eben Paxton of the U.S. Geological Survey Pacific Islands Ecosystems Research Center at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park and colleagues looked at population trends for seven species of native forest birds living on Kauai's Alakai Plateau, the eroded crater of a long - extinct volcano.

However, I think being confined to that simple island ecosystem really made it impossible to ever go back to the mainland.

These novel disturbances decimate native island wildlife and change entire island ecosystems.

«The nene caught people's attention; it was somehow charismatic,» says Paul Banko, a wildlife biologist with the Pacific Island Ecosystems Research Center.

The vast distances that separate hydrothermal vents make them similar to isolated island ecosystems, Adams says.

«The effects [on health] are likely to be small and limited to Mururoa and nearby island ecosystems,» it says.

But closely related tortoises from the neighboring Seychelles archipelago have been imported recently, and they have helped restore the island ecosystem, including bringing back the endangered local ebony trees.

Páramos resemble a sort of alpine archipelago, each a link in the chain of distinct island ecosystems that have evolved in isolation to produce plants found nowhere else on the planet.

«With a dwindling population of fewer than 300 adults, actions need to be taken quickly to preserve this important member of the Channel Islands ecosystem.»

Despite climate change having received considerable attention in recent years, no global assessment of the consequences of sea rising is available for island ecosystems.

Invasive species have shaped island ecosystems and landscapes in the Gulf of Alaska, but their histories are unknown.

NSF proposal competition results in addition of new Land Margin Ecological Research (LMER) site: Plum Island Ecosystem LTER

The removal of introduced rats from island ecosystems is a powerful conservation tool to protect threatened species, and has been adopted worldwide with ~ 500 successful eradications reported.

Historically, about 80 % of extinctions since 1500 have occurred on island ecosystems that today support approximately 40 % of all threatened species.

But humans have introduced rodents and predators such as feral cats and foxes to many of these islands, devastating native wildlife and changing entire island ecosystems.

Australia is also an island ecosystem, though it's an exceptionally large one.

Unlike on other islands in the region (notably Guadalupe Island), they do not seem to have had a significant impact on the island ecosystem.

Our waterways drain to the sea, a polluted ocean impacts the Channel Island ecosystem.

Today, bald eagles are again an important part of the island ecosystem.

Less restrictive measures would have the potential for introduction of non-native species that could adversely effect many species and / or endanger the islands ecosystems.

In this time of global change, monitoring island foxes and their island ecosystem is vital to the species» long - term survival.

Recognizing the challenges of managing the complex island ecosystems and richly diverse cultural resources, the Foundation is committed to advocating on behalf of and in support of the ongoing work of the Channel Islands National Park.

Recognizing the challenges of managing the complex island ecosystems and richly diverse cultural resources, the Foundation is committed to the ongoing work of Channel Islands National Park.

With most of the Channel Islands now managed by federal agencies or conservation groups, the restoration of the island ecosystems has made significant progress.

For a century, the Channel Islands were used primarily for ranching and fishing activities, which had significant impacts on island ecosystems, including the local extinction of sea otters, bald eagles, and other species.

Island ecosystems are particularly vulnerable to alien species.

The top soil is thin — and the island ecosystem is fragile.

Likewise, this isolation also makes island ecosystems incredibly susceptible to outside, or introduced species.

We should keep in mind that the island ecosystem is extremely fragile and requires very little to upset its balance.

February 24 — 27, 2015 Workshop International Workshop on Marine Bioinvasions of Tropical Island Ecosystems Charles Darwin Research Station Puerto Ayora, Galapagos Ecuador

Learn to sea kayak, surf, kayak surf, windsurf, snorkel, scuba dive, whitewater kayak, raft, and cave while experiencing the best of both the rainforest and island ecosystems at Glover's Reef, 35 miles off the coast of Belize.

His work focuses on lone individuals and small insular communities on the fringes of society, from hermetic existences found deep in the Scottish countryside to post-apocalyptic island ecosystems.

The point is that human landscape alteration has been going on for a long time, and bringing fire clearing to an island ecosystem not adapted to fire had terrible consequences.

For example, in species - poor, sub-Antarctic island ecosystems, alien microbes, fungi, plants and animals have been extensively documented as causing substantial loss of local biodiversity and changes to ecosystem function (Frenot et al., 2005).

The island ecosystems have not collapsed in their absence.

In the Galapagos the impact of visitors is manifested by disease, fire, and theft, has altered the natural balance of the island ecosystems.»

Tourism invites hordes of people to trample over the delicate island ecosystems, the ever - growing industry attracts migrant workers to join an already unsustainable population which combined with the gaggle of visitors usurps the Galapagos» limited resources.

The success of conservationists to restore balance to the Channel Island ecosystems, once again thriving with dwarf foxes, serves as a living monument to what is possible when we work in harmony with nature — fragil as it may be, but at the same time, so incredibly resilient.

Municipalities enforce rigorous official plans and strict building codes, which he regards as a good thing to prevent overbuilding and not exceed the carrying capacity of fragile island ecosystems.

Not exact matches

According to the announcement, the MoU signals the parties» intention to create what the Information Unit calls a «Digital Payments Ecosystem» on the Caribbean island.

Important initiatives for the island nation include investments into infrastructure and the empowerment of business ecosystems.

The overpopulation of the Axis Deer are a threat to both the the environment and agriculture in the islands, as the deer spread invasive plants, cause erosion, and damage ecosystems.

This three - year project will determine the economic value of these «ecosystem services» received from conserved land and clean water, and incorporate the information into decision - making for smart land use in both Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

LINCOLN, MA — Mass Audubon, in partnership with the Connecticut Audubon Society and the Audubon Society of Rhode Island, has been awarded a $ 69,632 Environmental Education grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to inform their members and the public about climate change and its impacts on local ecosystems.

On a small Australian island in the Indian Ocean, supercolonies of yellow crazy ants are causing what one biologist refers to as a «meltdown» of the native ecosystem.

An ecosystem built around large palm trees shifted to a landscape dominated by grasses, disrupting the natives ability to farm and significantly hobbling their ability to survive on the island.

For this study, Kordas, who is now a research fellow at Imperial College London, and her colleagues created mini-marine ecosystems on the shore of Ruckle Park on British Columbia's Salt Spring Island.