Sentences with phrase «natural habitats by»

«The few that are able to adapt to the new environment may disrupt the ecological balance of our natural habitats by competing with our native species for resources,» he explains.

Causeways and other roads that bisect wetlands alter natural habitats by providing avenues by which invasive plants species can colonize wetlands and nesting areas, altering natural hydrology of wetland systems, altering storm water runoff and drainage, providing avenues for road salts and pollutants and the direct loss of habitat due to land - clearing and paving.

According to official Chinese estimates, their numbers have fallen to only around 1590, largely as a result of the destruction of their natural habitats by humans.

Wildlife rangers work in wildlife parks where their main responsibility is to manage the park's natural habitat by following a variety of known conservation and restoration techniques.

Not exact matches

«By observing someone in their natural habitat we can determine how often they get interrupted when they are trying to do taxes, payroll, or perform some other task,» Williams says.

«My natural habitat is a windowless room by myself, conjuring up ideas,» he says.

The current fragmentation of global financial markets may be likened to habitat fragmentation in the natural world, in which large, continuous biological habitats are divided into a greater number of smaller eco-systems, isolated from each other by a matrix of dissimilar habitats, leading inexorably to broad ecosystem decay.

Just months later, Schmidt re-created Cohen's natural habitat within Google itself by engineering a «think / do tank» based in New York and appointing Cohen as its head.

--------------- Before you make an illogical claim like that, first prove to me that «nothing» ever existed by showing me «nothing» in its natural habitat.

«The one process ongoing in the 1980s that will take millions of years to correct,» Harvard biologist E. O. Wilson has warned, «is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.

We can not be sure that The Flood had no relationship to all flesh around that area having «corrupted its way»... The very protection of mankind from natural disasters that were inevitable from the contingent, limited perfection of the planet Earth as a habitat, might well have been mediated to human communities by great prophetic souls, even as Christ prophesied the destruction of Jerusalem as a consequence of his rejection, and because «in the day of your visitation, you did not know the things that were to your peace».

Of the 750 acres owned by Domaine Serene, only 250 are planted to vines to maintain natural habitat and balance.

We've got to be grateful to Aaron Ramsey foremost, he started off well at RW (very well given he's anything but a winger) followed up by a brilliant display back in his natural habitat while interacting with Wilshere and Walcott (both also great for their limited time).

Based on a plan drawn up free of charge by a Seattle architecture firm, the new zoo maintains the intimacy of the old zoo — a rustic place with dusty paths, teetering structures and the occasional mango tree in bloom — while enabling people to see animals in their natural habitats: paca in river forest, pumas in pineland, jaguarundi at the forest edge.

Written by parents who have studied toddlers up - close in their natural habitat, the book will cover survival skills including how you can outfit your home to outlast a toddler occupation (baby gate, cabinet locks, wine), how you can subdue an angry toddler («Elmo's Song,» mac and cheese, smartphone) and even how you can safely venture out in public together without your toddler — or you — bursting into tears.

This will be followed by a breakfast workshop at Broadmoor, hosted by Mass Audubon, illustrating how natural green infrastructure can preserve and restore water quality and habitat through good planning, conservation design, and LID.

Have you ever seen a crib or a co-sleeper made by an ape in its natural habitat?

While overall habitat loss is a factor in these declines, research also indicates that even fields of sufficient size, if they are fragmented or interrupted by hedgerows or natural windbreaks, will be passed over by the birds, which may view the linear plantings as cover for predators.

Adjacent to the Highland Park Country Club, the Skokie River Woods property is owned by the City of Highland Park and managed by the Park District of Highland Park as open space with wetlands and wooded areas providing open space, habitat, natural rainwater storage and infiltration in the North Branch Chicago River watershed.

«From the complete destruction of the Rockaway Boardwalk to recreational assets and natural habitats broken up by wind and water, New York City's parks were faced with unprecedented damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,» Commissioner Mitchell Silver said.

In 2010, Liddell - Grainger criticised plans by the Environment Agency and Natural England to create a wetland habitat at Steart on the Severn estuary as part of a realignment of coastal flood defences.

The previous five were caused by natural events — meteorite impacts and global temperature change — but this latest is decidedly human - generated, primarily through habitat destruction.

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.

A recent report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Montana Trout Unlimited (MTU) found that global warming is shrinking cold - water fish habitat, threatening the trout and other fish that depend upon it.

And it is a mass extinction entirely caused by the relentless expansion of human habitat and agriculture, as well as human domination of the natural systems — such as the climate — that make life possible.

By visualizing this environment, they could better understand the damage that could be caused to natural habitats and the importance of preserving them.

MANY of Europe's most precious natural habitats are being threatened by an unusual source of pollution.

The project, which will use dolphins specially trained by the US Navy to corral as many vaquitas as possible so they can be put into protective pens in their natural habitat, also got the green light to start from the Mexican government.

Environmental groups also argue that overconsumption by the farmers has damaged many natural habitats in California.

However, this is difficult as many coastal areas have been modified by humans, so finding a truly natural habitat for observations of turtles is becoming increasingly difficult.

Among the Great Apes by Paul Raffaele Nature journalist Raffaele spins riveting tales of his mission to visit every species and subspecies of great ape in its natural habitat.

The Picayune Strand, the first CERP project under construction, is an area in Southwest Florida that was substantially disordered by a real estate development project, which disrupted the flow into the Ten Thousand Islands National Wildlife Refuge, altered regional groundwater flows in surrounding natural areas, and drained a large expanse of wetland habitat.

A special 80 - by -120-foot habitat with a hard - floored pool, climbing logs and natural vegetation was created for the panther's home.

It's based on a counterintuitive premise: that fishermen can protect rainforest, nourish the local economy, and promote animal welfare by taking large volumes of wild fish out of their natural habitats to ship them thousands of miles away.

In a paper recently published in the journal Biological Conservation, a team including Lessard and led by graduate student Noa Davidai showed that protecting natural habitats in systems that are highly modified by humans could help struggling bat populations.

When shaken in the lab, or when thrashed by turbulent currents in its natural habitat, the seaweed's two sexes hold on to their gametes, releasing them only when the water is tranquil.

The samples were harvested by trained truffle dogs in several natural habitats and plantations in Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy and Hungary.

Intensify conservation efforts in the large landscapes required for snow leopard survival by identifying and designating critical habitats of key snow leopard populations as no - go areas for destructive land uses, maintaining their integrity and connectivity through natural corridors, and strengthening their protection on the ground.

To spread the risk of losing one habitat type in a bleaching event or other natural disaster, managers should protect multiple examples (replicates) of the full range of marine habitat types, and spread them out to minimize the chance that they will all be wiped out by the same disturbance.

Studies of the influence of natural and anthropogenic alterations or perturbations to habitat on habitat use by fish and value as measured by residence time, abundance, and range requirements.

Conclusion Parental pre ‐ acclimation to acidification levels that are beyond the pH that is encountered by this population in its natural habitat (e.g. pHT 7.2) negatively affected larval size and development, potentially through reduced energy transfer.

[3] Definitions Also, the term «anthropogenic forcing» refers to the influence exerted on a habitat or chemical environment by humans, as opposed to a natural process.

So the destruction of natural habitats and urbanization not only affects the health of the environment, but it also affects our health and wellness by removing healthy colonizing microbiota.»

Let me just start by saying it is incredibly important to ensure you have sustainably sourced bones, meaning they come from a source that is free of hormones and antibiotics and have been raised in a humane environment natural to their habitat.

† In addition, by sourcing our MCT oil from coconuts, we prevent the deforestation of palm forests — a natural habitat for endangered orangutans.

As the meaning of my name is the female lion and since I've always been fascinated by the grace of this huge cats, I'm dreaming of visiting Africa on day (hopefully soon) in order so see lions and leopards in their natural habitat.

Making its official debut on April 21st in the United States in a limited release, Born In China is narrated by John Krasinski as camera crews ventured deep into the wilds of China to film some fantastic beasts in their natural habitat.

Blu (voiced by Jesse Eisenberg) is a macaw who was removed from his natural habitat at birth and happened to «land» in Minnesota.

General Orders No. 9 (Unrated) Cinematic portrait of the State of Georgia shot by first - time director Robert Persons who laments the escalating encroachment of urbanization on the South's natural habitats.

The students are excited to see their fish released back into their natural habitat and hope that by restoring life back into the river, they will continue to provide food for those who fish.