Sentences with phrase «mountain habitats»
"Mountain habitats" refers to the natural environments and ecosystems found in mountains. Full definition
Thanks to global warming, the pika has disappeared from many of its natural mountain habitats in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, and those that remain tend to migrate to higher elevations.
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«One general expectation is that tree ranges will gradually move toward higher elevations as mountain habitats get hotter,» said Michael Van Nuland, the project's lead researcher and a doctoral student in UT's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology.
Along with sharing the same mountain habitat, the two warblers also are close neighbors in terms of genetics.
The site remains were transported from a variety of coastal and mountain habitats adjacent to the river basin (Dillehay 1999:210).
Where the mountains truly meet the sea, this is the only undisturbed coastal mountain habitat for more than 100 miles of coastline.
A 20 minute orientation film introduces you to Olympic mountain habitats.
American pikas, a pint - sized rabbit relative, are quickly losing their California mountain habitat to climate change, according to new research.
The shift is larger for species restricted to mountain habitats and for grassy species, which are characterized by faster population turnover.
This reproductive explosion could be one reason why the insects have been cutting a deadly swath through North America, Mitton suggests, causing enormous losses both to mountain habitats and to the logging industry.
That expansion would depend on narrow corridors of mountain habitat that run north — south along the border and serve as the cats» conduits between the two countries.
Using remote - sensor research cameras and GPS tracking collars, Snow Leopard Trust researchers have been able to follow and observe a young female snow leopard named Anu over the course of four years as she grew up, dispersed from her mother and later had cubs herself twice in her mountain habitat in Mongolia's South Gobi.
Adding to recent reports that rare wild wolves have been driven from their mountain habitat by pre-games construction, conservationists are dismayed at Olympic villages being constructed on once - pristine mountainsides and hundreds of trees being cut down to build ski jumps and a bobsled run — which, no offense to bobsledding, will probably sit unused and crumbling after the games.
The scientists investigated the bird species that populate the mountain habitats of the Pacific Northwest.