Sentences with phrase «migratory animals»

«As expected, we found that the vulnerability of migratory animals varied depending on the regional, environmental, behavioral and taxonomic context of the species,» explained lead author Molly Hardesty - Moore, a graduate student in UCSB's Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology.

White - tailed deer are ticks» primary mode of travel and the main reason they are so widespread, although other migratory animals such as birds and coyotes transport ticks as well.

Wolves are not migratory animals.

Such zones are off - limits to fishing, yet they may not be keeping these turtles — and other highly migratory animals — safe, according to a new study.

As the sun peeks over the horizon at the Tutakoke River field camp in Alaska's Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge, chambers dot a field used to study how a warmer Arctic is affecting migratory animals and the tundra plants they feed on.

But here at home, a much smaller organism may be circling the globe time and time again without accolades: According to a new study, the itty bitty dragonfly Pantala flavescens could take longer flights than any other known insect, putting it in the ballpark of larger migratory animals like birds and whales.

Having access to NASA's free satellite images that shed light on the environmental conditions migratory animals face is something that Beck finds invaluable.

Changes in bloom timing might not be good news for migratory animals, such as gray whales traveling from the Gulf of California to feed in the nutrient - rich waters of the Arctic shelf.

As a result most studies don't capture the dynamics between individuals, despite the fact that so many migratory animals travel in groups.

Without speaking, he spread his arms to encompass the surrounding miles and miles of evergreen trees, distant mountains, and migratory animal trails that still mark the very ground where the last human migration from Asia to North America took place.

The Serengeti is Tanzania's largest and best - known national park, with a massive concentration of migratory animals who move around the park according to the availability of food.

«In «Migration» the movements of wild North American migratory animals are transposed upon the ubiquitous space of modern roadside hotels and motels.

Overall, the goal for the landscape at Arch Nexus SAC was to offer a palette of diverse and healthy ecosystems for native plant and migratory animal species that can adapt and mature with proper nurturing.

Vagile (see Glossary) animals such as polar bears (sea - ice biome, tundra; Box 4.3) and in particular migratory animals (tundra, wetlands, lakes, tropical forests, savannas, etc.; Box 4.5) respond to impacts both within and across biomes.

Like these highly migratory animals, management strategies will need to cross jurisdictional and international borders in order to be effective.

For largely unseen and migratory animals like most whale species, it is extremely difficult to establish any definitive facts and figures.

These changes will then impact migratory animals that rely on winter length as an important part of their life and breeding cycles.

He sees the capability of using the team's research in the future to design models that will help game managers, conservation managers, farmers and tour operators predict animal migration, whether it's zebras or other migratory animals.

Whether it's stopping poaching and illegal trade in body parts from endangered species, identifying perpetrators of out - of - season hunting, or tracking the movement of migratory animals, forensic science is coming to the rescue of wildlife around the globe.

Being able to predict that into the future is very useful information to managing those landscapes so that migratory animals and humans can coexist.»

Many of the major migrations on Earth, especially on land, have already been lost, he explains, and few landscapes are left on Earth where the migratory animals do not have to share land resources with agriculture and other human activities.

They slip in quietly, like their predecessors that were transported by winds, ocean currents, or migratory animals.

Compared with birds, mammals and other migratory animals, insects are by far the most numerous.

But nobody knew what happened to migratory animals that go only to the far north in summer.

Then, in the late 1960s, Klaus Schulten of the University of Illinois proposed that migratory animals, including birds, must contain a certain molecule in their eyes or brains that responds to the magnetic field.

Through these biodynamic ranching practices, we are learning that healthy lands create wonderful habitats for native and migratory animals, effectively hold ground water, build topsoil, and sequester carbon from the atmosphere!»

Whale sharks are migratory animals, traversing the entire globe every year.

Whales are highly migratory animals and a shared global resource.