Sentences with phrase «many similar habitats»

«Nutritional yeast is yeast that is grown on molasses or a similar habitat, much like brewer's yeast, a byproduct from producing beer,» says Brandice Lardner, an NASM - certified personal trainer and nutrition coach with One by One Nutrition.

As farms disappear and forests return, the large swaths of hay fields and similar habitats that bobolink require for breeding and raising young continue to shrink in size and number.

Bacteria and diatoms inhabit those liquid veins, and Hajo Eicken, a glaciologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, suspects that similar habitats could exist in the lower, warmer layers of ice on Europa, and perhaps on the other moons as well.

Could he help them launch a similar habitat program to size up offshore resources and inventory sea life on nearby reefs?

The researchers found that the body condition of alligators found near wading bird nesting colonies was higher than those in similar habitat without active colonies, independent of a range of environmental variables.

Scientists have long been intrigued by the marine biodiversity peak located around Indonesia and the Philippines, in the so - called Coral Triangle, which hosts approximately three thousand coral reef fish species, i.e. ten times more than in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic at the same latitude and in similar habitats.

«Based on this study, we can predict that mantis groups with similar habitat specialization in Africa, Asia and Australia will also be far more diverse than what is currently known,» said Svenson.

It also concerns some ecologists that the narwhal, the strange, arctic whale whose long spiral tusk may have inspired the unicorn myth, faces similar habitat threats.

Our findings show that parallel phenotypes can evolve in similar habitats and due to similar selection pressure, however, not necessarily in parallel evolutionary sequence,» explains the evolutionary biologist from Konstanz.

According to new research, mid-altitudes host the largest number of species because the size and the connectedness of similar habitats are greatest there.

And their biodiversity can be increased further if many similar habitats are connected.

Other species that share similar habitats with the Gulf killifish, such as redfish, speckled trout, flounder, blue crabs, shrimp and oysters — may be at risk of similar effects.

Conversely, hawks tend to be strongly territorial, intolerant of human disturbance, and prefer prey like jackrabbits that occupy similar habitats,» said coauthor and USGS ecologist Kristy Howe, whose masters thesis research with WCS formed the foundation of this study.

In one February survey, researchers recorded 155 Channel Islands slender salamanders and 152 black - bellied slender salamanders in similar habitat.

Because of their isolation and remote nature, the Channel Islands support fewer native animal species than similar habitats on the mainland.

Channel Islands slender salamanders are broadly sympatric with black - bellied slender salamanders (B. nigriventris) on Santa Cruz Island, where both species tend to occupy similar habitats (Campbell, 1931b; Schoenherr et al., 1999).

Not exact matches

Many species that are very successful in their habitat, such as sharks, crocodiles, and coelacanths are similar in form to their ancestors because they still out compete or out reproduce their rivals.

And importantly, there is no similar data to compare the quality of present coffee farms with the habitat from which they were carved.

Other animals in dark, still habitats where scent is a giveaway could have evolved similar camouflage, says Resetarits.

But a prairie plant in the Midwest, where many miles of land have a similar temperature, might have to travel much farther to remain in its preferred habitat.

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 four species also pursue widely distributed prey in similar patchy and challenging habitats, and they need flexible hunting strategies.

It is easiest for a microbe to jump between closely related habitats, from an animal species with one sort of body chemistry to a closely related animal species with very similar body chemistry.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

«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.»

The Australian National University (ANU) study found that by living in the same habitat, pythons and boas evolved independently to look similar.

Disappearing habitats and hunting partly explain the decline, but the American mink, a distant cousin that looks very similar but lacks the European species's iconic white nose, has done by far the most damage.

The models then identified similar upwelling and feeding regions in the Northern Indian Ocean that are also likely to be important habitat for the endangered species.

Do birds in the same habitat have similar types of feet?

Despite diverse environmental conditions and methodological details, the results were very similar and reproducible in all four habitats.

«They provide similar benefits in that they create a three - dimensional habitat that supports other species.

The effort is also intended to prevent the introduction of harmful Earth life that could kill off any Martians, similar to how invasive species edge native organisms out of Earth's habitats.

But researchers found that the microorganism's cells are similar to microbes that live in a less demanding habitat on land: the soils in forests.

One of our biggest programs in Africa is working to improve the lives of people in 52 villages around Gombe National Park and spread out through the rest of the chimp habitat in Tanzania — and we have similar programs in Uganda, DRC [Democratic Republic of the Congo], the Republic of [the] Congo, Senegal and Burundi.

In this respect, the spectrum of species in Lake Victoria is now similar to that found in Lake Tanganyika or in marine habitats, where fish with pharyngeal jaws have existed alongside competitors without such jaws for up to 60 million years and have therefore never become specialized for predation on large fish.

Furthermore, Archaeornithura had long legs and feet apparently adapted to wading in water, similar to those of today's plovers, suggesting that modern birds arose in aquatic habitats.

So far, many are redistributing in a similar pattern: As habitat that was once too cold warms up, species are expanding their ranges toward the poles, whereas boundaries closer to the equator have remained more static.

Here we assessed the song structure of male mountain chickadees using two exemplars of high and low elevation habitats on two different mountains in the Sierra Nevada with similar mixed - conifer forest structure.

Because it looks so similar to other microwhip scorpions still found today, it most probably shared the same habitat and preferences as its modern - day kin.

The great forest disturbances created by Passenger Pigeon megaflocks — which were described by American ornithologist John James Audubon as similar to tornadoes — were a constant variable in the formula of eastern forest habitats.

In the Zurich Zoo for instance, the snow leoaprds have a vertical rock face in their enclosure, very similar to a typical mountain rock face in their natural habitat.

This result agrees with the different habitats and ecological roles of each strain, being F113 a rhizospheric bacterium with biocontrol activities (32), similar to UM270; while UK4 is a biofilm former with no attributed plant - associated activity (15).

One big step would be to draw on the successes of National Parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite by creating similar areas for underwater habitats.

Since environment and diet change microbiomes, we can expect that when introducing the extinct species into its former habitat and giving it its former diet, the microbiome will change and become similar to the original microbiome of the extinct species.

«REDD + [Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation] and similar carbon reduction projects... have given me hope because they provide financial incentives to protect chimpanzee habitat, and thus an alternative to the many economic pressures to destroy it.

Debates raging over fishing regulations and habitat preservation are eerily similar to those over passenger pigeon exploitation over a century ago.

Fish come from all over the world, and while their habitats may be similar, they are rarely identical.

«Allie's Pals shares similar beliefs in collaboration, transparency and that every animal deserves respect and opportunity to enjoy a healthy home or habitat.

Some of these programs mimic foraging choices similar to that found in an animal's natural habitat, including hiding food, or hanging fruit from a tree.

A similar situation can occur when wildlife enters into a house, making it their temporary habitat.