Sentences with phrase «native species habitat»

With over half of the park set aside as protected native species habitat, attractions include an African Tram Tour and up - close Animal Encounters.

Not exact matches

The island's 500 - year - old Sitka spruce temperate rainforest is also the native habitat of the largest grizzly species in the world — the Kodiak bear, which can grow to an imposing 1,500 pounds.

Increase forest cover with native species in degraded areas, improve the climate resiliency of coffee plants as a result of restoring tree cover, and enhance habitat value in the coffee - growing landscape.

Specifically, Commonwealth environmental water was released from Hume Dam to support in - channel, wetland and low elevation floodplain habitat along the length of the River Murray to improve the condition and promote the migration of native fish species; support waterbird habitat and breeding events; and, mobilise and export salts from the River Murray system.

Re-establishment of flood - tolerant bank vegetation following the millennium drought will provide habitat for a number of native species and also assist with bank stability during natural floods and heavy rainfall.

«We will be working together to deliver environmental water to smaller local wetland and floodplain sites to improve habitat and provide refuges for endangered and threatened native bird and fish species such as the Regent Parrot and the Murray Hardyhead,» Mr Reilly said.

Commonwealth environmental water was delivered to maintain water quality in refuge pools and to provide habitat for large - bodied native fish species present in the Lower Darling River.

Commonwealth environmental water helped maintain a mosaic of habitats including native vegetation, stimulated breeding and recruitment of several native fish, frog and turtle species, and resulted in a boom of productivity in the system.

Beam Suntory's operations take their role in protecting local native species and habitats very seriously.

(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.

Mass Audubon permanently protects nearly 37,000 acres of land across Massachusetts, providing important opportunities for all people to experience the wonders of nature firsthand while also safeguarding a wide range of habitats and native wildlife species.

In addition to protecting critical habitat for native species, Mass Audubon's land conservation efforts provide many quality - of - life benefits, including clean drinking water, locally grown food, and places to learn about and enjoy nature.

Common reed is a non-native invasive grass that displaces native plant species that provide important habitat for wildlife.

The main goal of this ongoing project is to control invasive plant species that degrade the native habitat.

Mink are an introduced and highly predatory species which represents the main threat to water voles and other native wildlife where the habitat is suitable.

Instead, the biggest hurdles are the same that conservationists face when reintroducing endangered species to native habitats.

Steve: And have some kind of other, for example, in the Everglades [you have] cattails that move [in] and displace the native plant species and they ruin their habitat.

Dr Ford, from the University's Institute of Marine Sciences, said: «One of the main reasons why invasive species are successful is the escape from predators, parasites and disease in their native habitats.

Now he and Matthew Symonds, at the University of Melbourne, Australia, have compared beak length in 214 bird species with the annual minimum temperature of their native habitats.

Dr Vallejo - Marin said: «The fact that the new polyploid involves a non-native plant is poignant, given the fact that human activities are transporting all sorts of animal and plant species well beyond their native habitats.

«If the oxygen level in a given region of the ocean drops below a species» minimum requirements, it forces the animals to abandon their native habitat.

The biologist is tracking the insects as they move through the Southwest and threaten habitats of native species, like the Southwestern willow flycatcher.

Today, many ecosystems are like the Colorado River: an amalgam of native and non-native species living in human - altered habitat.

The ocelot, a small native wildcat listed as an endangered species, has already suffered from severe habitat loss; the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department estimates there are no more than 120 left in Texas, and scientists worry that the wall would further deplete their numbers.

The World Conservation Union ranks the loss of native habitat and the introduction of invasive species as the most crucial problems, but unchecked activities like fishing, hunting, and logging play a role — as does human - induced climate change.

If established, alien species may threaten native marine habitats, but it could take years to detect such effects.

Cox wants to turn the garden into «a botanical ark» for the South Pacific, to shelter rare species with the intention of restocking native habitats someday.

Tuatara, like many native New Zealand animals, were threatened by habitat loss, harvesting, and introduced species such as mustelids and rats.

These are widely dispersed by native Jamaican bird species and it has been invading new habitats at a high rate.

The Wyoming pocket gopher, which is only native to Wyoming and is roughly the size of a guinea pig, was a prime example of a secondary species that did not fare all that well under the umbrella of sage grouse habitat, Carlisle says.

Like giant salvinia, it depletes oxygen and prevents light from penetrating the water's surface, rendering freshwater habitats uninhabitable for most native aquatic species.

Conserving green spaces, restoring native plant species and adding biodiversity - friendly habitats within urban landscapes could, in turn, support more bird and plant species.

Hidden camera traps have offered scientists unprecedented access into the native habitats of endangered species, and they ways they behave.

In their upcoming second Ecological Restoration publication titled «Resurgence of Native Plants After Removal of Amur honeysuckle from Bender Mountain Preserve,» Conover and Sisson reveal the lengths to which honeysuckle alters habitats by decreasing light availability and depleting soil moisture and nutrients, as well as by possibly releasing toxic chemicals that prevent other plant species from growing in the vicinity.

The «enemy release» hypothesis holds that certain invading species succeed because they escape from their natural enemies — pathogens, parasites, herbivores and predators — in their native habitat.

Undaria lives in the same habitat as native kelps, says Boalch, and no one knows if it will push out native species.

Saltcedar disrupts the structure and stability of native plant communities and degrades native wildlife habitat by outcompeting and replacing native plant species.

New research, led by the University of Southampton, has found that human activities such as shipping are having a noticeable impact on marine species and their native habitats.

Many scientists have predicted that habitat loss will force species into new geographical ranges — areas where they may begin to overlap, compete, and even mate with closely related natives.

«In addition, species of native bees were identified in the gardens, suggesting that pollinator habitats could be created in southeastern landscapes using these taxa.»

Sea ice is a crucial part of the ecosystems at both poles, providing habitat and influencing food availability for penguins, polar bears and other native species.

Invasive plant species can be a source of valuable ecosystem functions where native coastal habitats such as salt marshes and oyster reefs have severely declined, a new study by scientists at Duke University and the University of North Carolina - Wilmington finds.

The effort is also intended to prevent the introduction of harmful Earth life that could kill off any Martians, similar to how invasive species edge native organisms out of Earth's habitats.

Rhesus macaques could potentially impact the native plant and animal species in the park in several ways; for example, eating plants needed by other animals, changing the plant composition in the park, or pushing other animals out of the habitat by being aggressive, Anderson said.

They can cause damage to fishing gear and river banks, block intake screens, modify natural habitats and compete with native species, and it is this economic and ecological damage that makes this crab such an unwelcome arrival.

Growers have been accused of clearing native forests, removing habitat of endangered species and violating the rights of forest dwellers.

The researchers focused on streams draining seven national forests in the southern Appalachian region, first mapping out how much of the area's current habitat is suitable for acid - and heat - sensitive aquatic species such as the native brook trout.

It gives us the chance to protect the most important areas for other native species while protecting more panda habitats.»

Goodman's observation of the species Homo academicus in its native habitat around Cambridge is one of the pleasures of this book, although her grasp of nuance is less sure when her characters venture into the alien wilds of Bethesda and D.C.

A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Idaho State University and the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that habitat fragmentation and the addition of makeshift perches such as transmission polls in sagebrush ecosystems are creating preferred habitat for common ravens that threaten sensitive native bird species, including greater sage grouse.