Sentences with phrase «native species losses»

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The findings paint a bleak picture for the persistence of native flowering plants in the face of climate change and could serve as a herald for future species losses in mountain ecosystems over the next century.

She and her colleagues have documented deep losses in North American native bumblebee species, and she's now studying whether pathogens spilling over from commercial bees are playing a role.

As people burn forests for agriculture and grazing, as they replace native vegetation with mono - culture crops that discourage cloud formation, they alter the dynamic relationship between the earth's surface and the atmosphere, initiating further drying and warming, and further species loss.

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.

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

Losses were reported among four species of native bumblebee as well.

Although no earthworms are native to North America's northern forests, 15 earthworm species now live in Great Lakes forests, resulting in a loss of plant life

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.

I made numerous explicit references to the harm done by invasives, such as the loss of valuable beta diversity and priceless native species through predation, disease, and ecosystem alteration.

Among its many strategies to reverse the ongoing loss of pollinating species and their landscapes, the memorandum encourages federal facilities to plant pollinator gardens — native flowering landscaping that provides an oasis for bees and butterflies — at federal facilities.

Alien species are one of the main threats to biodiversity and native species as well as causing immense economic damage, e.g. via yield losses in agriculture.

It has become too easy to find weight loss supplements containing this tamarind species native to Asia, Australia, and southern Africa.

* Human impact: Loss of habitat due to development, radio / TV / cellular phone towers, high - rise glass buildings, power lines, wind turbines, wetland destruction to name a few have had the greatest impact on the decline of native species around the world.

What Johnston might have added is that most of the feral cat presence is not associated with any loss of endangered species, since most of the 20 Australian native species that cats are alleged to have helped to kill to extinction inhabited only small offshore islands.

The exploding population of the felines has drastically affected the ecosystem, causing the loss of 29 native species and placing a number of others under threats of disappearing.

«We hope visitors will come away with a greater understanding and appreciation of the world - renowned floral diversity found in California's many unique ecosystems — as well as an understanding of how climate change and increasing habitat loss are threatening Nature's fragile native plant communities and species,» the photographers say.

«Invasive species are a leading driver of the decline of native species,» said Pejchar, which is why she was surprised at the paucity of «science on the footprint of energy development [as it impacts] the spread of invasive species or the loss of carbon storage / sequestration through habitat alteration.»