Sentences with phrase «more habitat for»

It may also mean more habitat for dark microbes, which can contribute to the darkening of the ice sheets and therefore to the melting.

«A better understanding of how tree diversity affects carbon storage will be useful for developing guidelines to design carbon projects that store high amounts of carbon and have additional benefits such as providing more habitat for wildlife.»

Altered fish communities: Warmer lakes and streams will certainly provide more habitat for warmwater species as conditions in northern reaches of the basin become more suitable for warmwater fish and as lakes and streams are vacated by cool - and coldwater species.91 Habitat for coldwater fish, though not expected to disappear, will shrink substantially, though it could also expand in some areas, such as Lake Superior.

He found that burning created more habitat for insects and woodpeckers than mechanical thinning.

It makes them patchy and leaves more habitat for the native wildlife, more food for them and more places to hide from cats.

Not exact matches

Jane Kirchner has spent more than 20 years helping save open lands and advocating for the protection of wildlife habitat.

The ONLY REAL SOLUTION to the overcrowding of areas like Gaza that does not result in war or death occuring is the colonization of planetary bodies like the Moon and Mercury both of which have more than ample supplies of water to create habitats for humans.

The Smithsonian Bird - Friendly certification requires a minimum shade cover of 40 %, and the overstory should include at least ten different species of shade trees, with no more than 70 % of the trees being Inga species, which means more habitat remains appropriate for birds.

I think it would be great if other coffee farms in the region began more reforestation to provide habitat for guans.

Standards for preservation of native habitat in these areas would be more appropriate.

Research has shown that in the Dominican Republic, shade coffee farms had more males than females [3,5], indicating that shade coffee farms were a good substitute for tall forest habitats.

(citation needed) Shaded Kona cultivation systems show greater biodiversity than full - sun systems, and those more distant from continuous forest compare rather poorly to undisturbed native forest in terms of habitat value for some bird species.

For more than a century, a cold - water stream that previously meandered through coastal Plymouth to Massachusetts Bay was diverted to support the cranberry farm's operations, thereby reducing rich and diverse wetland habitats.

If you are looking for a more in - depth exploration of the Drumlin Farm fields, farmyard, and habitats, register for one of our education programs.

Located in the area where Drumlin Underground has stood for more than fifty years, this larger landscape features our red fox and other wildlife that occupy the edge habitat that dominates the farm.

For more than 40 years, the boardwalk has enabled visitors to enjoy the property's expansive wetland habitat and observe birds and other wildlife it supports.

Woodland managed for shooting rather than for commercial timber production provides a richer and more varied habitat.

New York has awarded more than $ 440,000 in grants for 10 projects to help communities protect water quality and habitats in the Hudson River watershed.

In the long term, the species requires more habitat, which perhaps could be accomplished by making the adjacent federal land in Siuslaw National Forest suitable for martens.

And the return to ocean conditions last seen in the Ediacaran period more than 540 million years ago — when jellies last ruled the seas — has been a boon for certain fishes in habitats like the Benguela Current in the South Atlantic off Namibia in Africa, where jellyfish - eating gobies have replaced sardines in the food chain.

But once we're on that projected path, there are certain measures that we can help species to get to certain habitats that might be more suitable for them,» she said.

Narrow species ranges and fragmented appropriate habitats (as well as man - made and natural barriers like cities and mountains) will make it hard for more temperate and tropical plants to move.

«Our modeling results suggest that the physical aspects of the kelp — its sheer size and its presence, the shade that it casts, its effect on flow and the habitat it provides for predators — affect the reef ecosystem more than its productivity,» Miller said.

The habitat's depth was about 45 feet, a fraction of the 600 feet or more that Sealab had been aiming for — so less complexity was needed for the pressurized gas recipe and the aquanauts» eventual decompression.

On the other hand, individuals with an instinct for choosing good habitat tended to produce more offspring, thus spreading their instincts through the population.

Roads break up habitats and block migration routes, but as our species continues to expand, some researchers are asking which is better for wildlife: more traffic on fewer roads or less traffic on more roads?

When a delegation from Washington, D.C., came to scope out the Virgin Islands as a possible site for a new, still more advanced habitat, it was as if the candy store had come straight to the kid.

«Beavers, they're really good at making a mess of a system, and it's that messiness that's exactly what we're looking for, by creating more complex fish habitat.»

Now, researchers have exposed a more accessible analog for extraterrestrial life habitats: microscopic pockets of salt water in the Arctic Ocean's winter ice.

«The Base in not well surveyed for most animal groups and given its location on Cuba, the extent of rare habitat, [and] the number of rare plants, there are bound to be many more discoveries to be made and we are promoting it to other biologists as a research destination,» Droege says.

More than half a kilometre beneath the Devon Ice Cap, scientists discovered two lakes whose extreme saltiness could make them a habitat for microbes — an environment that might also exist on Jupiter's icy moon Europa.

«There is still a lot of work to do to improve access to more historic river habitat for diadromous fish,» Nieland said.

«Climate change in Alaska means we're going to see more fires and while that's good for moose, it's really bad for caribou,» said Hundertmark, «because it's going to burn lichen beds that can take at least 50 years to recover and reduce viable caribou habitat.»

This reproduction strategy lets corals spread rapidly to more suitable habitats without needing to wait for genetic mutations that make it hardier in the face of change.

Caribou populations are predicted to become more isolated and fragmented as climate change shrinks habitat and as caribou have fewer opportunities for genes to flow between individuals and herds, explained Hundertmark.

«The hurdles for behavioral changes are far lower than the hurdles for life and death,» said Bigford, who worked with fish habitats at NOAA for more than three decades.

Now, an elaborate genetic study conducted by researchers at Eawag and Bern University helps to explain the secret of its success: the stickleback can evidently adapt very rapidly to new habitats — so rapidly that, for evolutionary biologists, it serves as a model for the divergence of a single species into two or more distinct species.

More animals will lose suitable habitat than will gain it, with those animals especially adapted to the coldest water on Earth (for example in the Weddell and Ross Sea) losing out the most.

Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) thought they had finally won a measure of respect after adopting two major revisions to their conservation strategy — setting aside more habitat and designing recovery plans for multiple species.

The strategy — widely anticipated but issued 5 months later than the White House had originally planned — also outlines a series of steps and goals for agencies to pursue, such as tackling bee - killing pathogens and mites, reducing pesticide use and reviewing its safety to bees, restoring degraded pollinator habitats, and encouraging the planting of more flowering plants and other pollinator - friendly vegetation.

He found that the species» population has declined more than one / third over the last decade, and that just under half of the species» habitat has been irreversibly transformed by humans — primarily for crop production.

Since stars are a prerequisite for life, the findings could indicate far more possibilities for viable habitats.

The international research team documented the occurrences in different habitats for approximately 10,000 plant species originating from Europe — from which more than 2,500 have naturalized on other continents.

«The American Southwest is, at best, marginal habitat for the animals,» he noted, adding that to really boost the species» chances, efforts should be focused on their current, more established habitats in Latin America, where his group works.

Altitude is proxy for latitude in these environments, so you have this more or less continuous band of this kind of habitat that just stretches the entire length of the continent.

On St. Paul, at least, the more likely suspect is climate change, though it's also possible that the final straw for mammoths here was habitat loss: With increasing sea levels, the island may have become too small to sustain its megafauna population.

The panel, convened at the request of the Canadian Energy Pipeline Association and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, has also recommended more research on the development and validation of spill cleanup methods that limit habitat damage and threats to wildlife, and methods to identify endpoints for cleanup operations based on habitat recovery.

More challenging to preserve are species that require a lot of land, like elephants, and species that have highly specific requirements for habitat and prey — and a poor public image — like black - footed ferrets.

However, the area suffers a high loss of habitat due to deforestation for more arable and pasture land.

«Lesser prairie - chicken survival relies on the combination of habitat and climate, and larger areas of habitat provide more opportunities for them to survive a difficult climate,» said USGS scientist and study co-author Clint Boal.