Sentences with phrase «more of a habitat»

In fact, if the bird's home can be more of a habitat or even a room, your bird will be even happier.

BASIC REQUIREMENTS We encourage everyone to consider making their rabbit's housing more of a habitat, especially if your bun is spending a lot of time there while you are gone during the day.

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Examples include cleaning up floating plastic debris, slowing down the pace of ocean acidification, and gathering far more data about the habitat impact of illegal overfishing.

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

At the same time, we would like to see not merely the preservation of existing wilderness, but changes in human habitat and land use that would allow us to share the land much more generously with other species.

I am not convinced that this objectification of humanity into victim and executioner does justice to the complexity of the human individual or to the dynamic of evil... The web that unites victim and tyrant in the same person is more complex than the white hat / black hat caricature that seems banal even in its natural habitat, the «grade B» movie.

Much more serious is the destruction of habitat by deforestation and expansion of farming.

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.

This is more than avoiding pesticides and herbicides; it's about energy and water conservation, pest management, wildlife habitat protection and monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions, among other criteria.

Many are interested in releasing beneficial insects or planting more habitat such as hedgerows, but feel constrained by lack of knowledge and experience.

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

Companies and their customers can choose palm oil that's been grown in a sustainable way — meaning no more forests and other important habitats are destroyed, and the rights of workers and local communities are respected.

In 2017, The New York Times reported that the Bornean orangutan's population had declined by more than 80 percent in the last 75 years largely because of habitat loss.

(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.

There is something way more badass about a team named the Lions if they play in a city that is actually part of an actual Lion's native habitat.

To do the kind of work I do [meticulously accurate studies that portray the birds of the Central Midwest and their behavior], the important thing, much more important than clicking the shutter, is being familiar with the habitat of the species, even the idiosyncrasies of individual birds.

Mass Audubon manages more than 35,000 acres of wildlife habitat across the state, ranging from barrier beaches to open fields to northern hardwood forests.

The Nature Museum teaches over 5,000 students and community partners through more than 200 workshops each year about Monarch butterflies which emphasize the importance of creating Monarch habitats, and fosters personal connections with this vibrant, recognizable insect.

We anticipate that perhaps up to three nesting territories of plovers will be displaced through the removal of sand, however, based on prior projects we expect to gain 15 or more new nesting territories through habitat restoration and enhancement.

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.

Among the new offerings include Washed Ashore — a collection ofmassive and colorful art sculptures completely made of ocean plastic debris; a new aquatic presentation featuring the amazing biology and adaptation of dolphins, beluga whales and more; the world premiere of PBS Kids» Splash and Bubbles 4 - D Experience; a redesigned gallery habitat highlighting the wonder and beauty of the world's kelp forests and more.

These projects target habitats of priority species of conservation concern, and include dam removals, invasive species management, wetland restoration, and more.

Spreading across more than 700 acres in Easthampton and Northampton along the western bank of the oxbow, the wildlife sanctuary offers visitors a range of landscapes and habitats attractive to birds, from marshes and meadows to grasslands and forest.

Natural Areas — More than 250 areas of prairie, woodlands, ravines and wetlands within 10 distinct natural habitats, ranging from the cool - water ravines of the Lake Michigan shore to rare Northern Flatwood communities to the Sedge Meadows of Skokie Valley, each with its distinct community of wildflowers, wildlife, trees and shrubs.

Targeted use of herbicides can then help establish strips of pollen - rich flowers to produce a habitat more attractive to bees and other insects.

Orangutan numbers on the Southeast Asian island of Borneo plummeted from 1999 to 2015, more as a result of human hunting than habitat loss, an international research team finds.

It's the only Southern Hemisphere bear, calling the Andes home and occupying a range of habitats, including elevations more than 15,000 feet above sea level.

But more than 40 percent of the land - dwelling animals that live in mangrove forests are now under pressure from habitat loss, concludes an analysis published this week in BioScience.

CORAL reefs have generated more types of animal than all other marine habitats put together.

New research suggests that over millions of years of planetary history, birds and mammals have outperformed amphibians and reptiles at adapting to changing temperatures and shifting their habitats to more suitable locations.

«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.

Wolfe's group is pressing the Interior Department to categorize the walrus as either «threatened» or «endangered,» a move that would give the federal government more oversight of commercial activity — like oil drilling — in the walrus's critical habitat.

This habitat has been designated one of the world's 25 most biodiverse regions and is home to more than 3,600 plant species.

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.

As humans put stress on the habitats of more complicated marine creatures, Robison explains, «jellies, because they are relatively simple, cheap to build, and can reproduce very quickly, can respond to negative impacts on other kinds of animals by rushing in to fill their niche.»

However, further testing of field - collected spider webs from more species and habitats is needed to evaluate the generality of these findings.

The authors examined the effects of climate change on more than a thousand species, including those that live on reefs and those that live in open - water habitats.

Müllerian mimicry is a classic example of evolution by natural selection: When two or more foul - tasting species share the same habitat, they tend to warn potential predators using the same colors.

If the extinction trend continues apace, modern elephants, rhinos, giraffes, hippos, bison, tigers and many more large mammals will soon disappear as well, as the primary threats from humans have expanded from overhunting, poaching or other types of killing to include indirect processes such as habitat loss and fragmentation.

Virginia Tech College of Natural Resources and Environment research published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE shows that private landowners trust conservation agencies more and have better views of program outcomes when they accompany conservation biologists who are monitoring habitat management on their land.

«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.»

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

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

Using more than a dozen instruments placed around the habitat, including a first - of - its - kind underwater mass spectrometer that tracks fluctuations in key gases up and down the ocean waters, aquanauts watch readouts in real time on computer screens.

«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.

New research has prompted scientists to call on policymakers to plant more trees alongside upland rivers and streams, in an effort to save their habitats from the future harm of climate change.

In highly disturbed habitats, bees make greater use of alien plants — not because the bees prefer them, but simply because introduced plants are more common where people have transformed the landscape.

In the next 35 years, Voigt's team calculates that further habitat destruction alone will lead to the loss of around 45,000 more of these apes.

More than 540 international expeditions sailed to coral reefs, hydrothermal vents, seamounts, and open ocean waters to assemble a comprehensive picture of the diversity, habitats, and abundance of animals and microbes living in the sea.