Sentences with phrase «migration times»

The researchers also got the first clear look at migration timing.
Any walk on the beach or visit to Ecola State Park can become an encounter with these magnificent creatures, especially during peak migration times in early spring and winter.
Be on the lookout for bald eagles, roosevelt elk, and gray whales during migration times.
They found that temperature is likely to be useful to migrants in making adjustments in timing in route, however, they dispute the notion that a commonly used index of vegetation greenness is a useful cue for migration timing in the study region.
Those recommendations include clearing vegetation around solar towers to make the area less attractive to birds, retrofitting panels and mirrors with designs that help birds realize the solar arrays are not water, suspending operations at key migration times, and preventing birds and bats from roosting and perching at the facilities.
We pioneered a non-disruptive technology architecture and paired it with a business model that means you can buy our storage once — and not over and over, with data migrations every time.
Just researching for my own migration time.
Data is entered into the Wisconsin Bat Monitoring Program database, with the long - term scope of this project to compile information about phenology, species presence, migration timing vs. residence, and trends of the bat species in Wisconsin.
In the article «Variation in wing characteristics of monarch butterflies during migration» published earlier this month in Animal Migration, Dara A. Satterfield and Andrew K. Davis describe for the first time a close link between migration timing and optimal wing design in the migratory butterfly.
Since the expected migration time from internal disk regions that emit most of the optical flux to the orbit of the companion star is of several years, the simultaneity of the high energy and optical fluxes variations indicates that X-ray emission arises from close to the star.
This study showed that in fact many European migratory birds do indeed advance the timing of their spring migration in response to climate change [so another study in favour of climate (temperature) over circadian rhythm for migration timing] and that it may actually be the long - distance migratory birds that show better adaption:
Donna Hauser, Kristin Laidre, Harry Stern and colleagues examined changes in autumn migration timing of Beluga whale populations since the 1990s.
Moreover, changes in wind patterns, especially in relation to seasonal migration timing, could help or hinder migration (Butler et al., 1997).
Apex will include mitigation measures in its operating plan, such as shutting down the turbines at low wind speeds and during key migration times.
A University of Oklahoma study demonstrates for the first time that remote sensing data from weather surveillance radar and on - the - ground data from the eBird citizen science database both yield robust indices of migration timing, also known as migration phenology.
Tony should get some birds to come in any day now... it's migration time!
The nearby Columbia River's sockeye, along with steelhead (also known as rainbow trout), which face temperatures 2.5 degrees warmer than the historical average, have shifted their migration times to avoid peak summer temperatures.
These indices can now be used to address the critical gap in our knowledge regarding the cues that migrants use for fine tuning their migration timing in response to climate.
they will honor the TC up until its migration time.
You can't fake spring coming earlier, or trees growing higher up on mountains, or glaciers retreating for kilometres up valleys, or shrinking ice cover in the Arctic, or birds changing their migration times, or permafrost melting in Alaska, or the tropics expanding, or ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula breaking up, or peak river flow occurring earlier in summer because of earlier snowmelt, or sea level rising faster and faster, or any of the thousands of similar examples.
In terms of migration time, there is a difference in the total difficulties score between groups of children having parents working away from home F (319) = 5.408, p = 0.005.
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