Sentences with phrase «new habitat»

As the ice melts and Arctic temperatures warm, polar bears are forced to find new habitat (usually farther south, where the humans also live in greater numbers).

For example, reductions in seasonal sea ice cover and higher surface temperatures may open up new habitat in polar regions for some important fish species, such as cod, herring, and pollock.128 However, continued presence of cold bottom - water temperatures on the Alaskan continental shelf could limit northward migration into the northern Bering Sea and Chukchi Sea off northwestern Alaska.129, 130 In addition, warming may cause reductions in the abundance of some species, such as pollock, in their current ranges in the Bering Sea131and reduce the health of juvenile sockeye salmon, potentially resulting in decreased overwinter survival.132 If ocean warming continues, it is unlikely that current fishing pressure on pollock can be sustained.133 Higher temperatures are also likely to increase the frequency of early Chinook salmon migrations, making management of the fishery by multiple user groups more challenging.134

This handsome species is by its very nature ready to utilize new habitat.

The team imagined that, by 2117, irreversible climate change would force humankind to establish a new habitat in space.

Since they don't have to wait long for appropriate habitat to mature, Blue - winged Warblers are quick to take advantage of new habitat when it becomes available.

Just as with the project Galapagos, Damijan Kracina and Vladimir Leben have joined their imaginative tendencies and created a wholly new habitat, which this time in not related to a remote island reserve, but to a world of dark depths.

Alice Channer: «Cold Blood» (through Dec. 23) In Alice Channer's promising United States solo debut the body is elusive and amphibious; just when you think you've pinned it down, it changes form or acquires a new habitat.

The project was a catalyst and served to underscore a new habitat to confront the global warming conditions with a sustainable, self - sufficient environment.

The clear accord between the museum's new habitat and its collection has already inspired a major gift, in the form of some 500 works from the collection of Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, many of which will be displayed here in the autumn in an exhibition co-organised with the Centre Pompidou.

Wield a huge arsenal of upgradeable weapons and battle savage beasts adapted to their new habitat.

After outgrowing the Tidelands Nature Center, the Georgia Aquarium partnered with Tidelands, and Dylan was moved in November 2005 to a new habitat at the Georgia Aquarium.

We don masks, snorkels and flippers and venture out offshore at Moken beach to where a trial reef restoration project is using old fishing cages to re-build the reef — already coral is reviving and fish life are visiting the perfect new habitat.

The new habitat includes two Fun - nel LED Bubble Plugs, which provide anytime illumination for hamsters, gerbils or mice for better pet viewing.

Moving a colony of feral cats — and convincing them to stay — is a complex process involving specific procedures that start with finding a suitable new habitat or location, and must be followed without shortcuts if you want the cats to be safe and remain at the relocation site.

Cover the aquarium with a light cloth to allow your new pet to adjust to and explore its new habitat in privacy.

In some instances «shelter / return» programs relocate feral cats to new habitat, usually via intermediary volunteer «cat colony caretakers,» whose activity is often only lightly supervised and documented, if monitored at all.

Follow this checklist to get all the essentials your bird needs to call their new habitat home.

After you arrive home, carefully place your hamster in its prepared cage, then close the cage door and allow your hamster to explore its new habitat on its own.

«We are all eager to see the mustangs enjoy their new habitat,» Rigney said.

But tomorrow, I migrate over to my new habitat at National I make things.

Its return to the Arctic could provide new habitat for endangered species, help temper climate change, increase the population of elephants in the world, and bring excitement and a reframed sense of what is possible to conservation.

Some of the features that the animals used were new, such as limbs, but some of them were existing features that they simply co-opted to allow them to move into a new habitat.»

«Once you get humans into the picture and human settlements... there's a creation of a new habitat,» he explains.

He explains, «Like oysters, beavers, and termites, these boring clams alter the landscape and provide new habitat for other species.»

The researchers calculated how much viable habitat remains for each of the species, then reran IUCN's risk assessment algorithms based on these new habitat estimates.

Using these values, the computer can automatically add new habitat and rearrange the landscape in order to improve range shifting potential.»

If you are forced into a new habitat to escape predators, you may then stay there and adapt, says Ord.

Last July, the group planted endangered Torreya taxifolia seedlings in new habitat patches north of their customary domain in Florida, where it is becoming too hot for the conifers to survive.

Asian carp are hardy, lay hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time and spread into new habitat quickly and easily.

«You're greatly increasing the chances of populating a new habitat if it only takes one individual,» he says, citing the example of the brahminy blind snake (Ramphotyphlops braminus), another parthenogenetic species.

When the Fangataufa atoll populations were decimated by the nuclear bombs, it opened up a new habitat to colonize for the free floating larvae, but which species happened to land on the reef is mostly a matter of luck.

«Populations of rare songbird found in surprising new habitat.»

Now, along the continental shelf off south - central California, The Nature Conservancy is working to find out if trawlers provide such animals with new habitat.

The combination of new habitat from irrigation and runoff of pesticides may be a «perfect storm» for schistosomiasis where agriculture is intensifying in the developing world, Rohr says.

A later amendment to the law, however, noted that the agency can weigh potential negative economic impact of habitat designation in deciding whether to create a new habitat area.

Some populations of these eukaryotes have upped their survival odds even further by bringing their favorite bacterial food along with them to create a fresh crop that is seeded and consumed in the new habitat.

Even if you are trying to replace like with like, it is far from clear if, for instance, the nightingales of Lodge Hill will, upon returning from overwintering in Africa, find their way to any new habitat created for them, still less whether they will find it to their liking.

Plants are often moved away from their natural provenance, and sometimes they become stronger competitors in their new habitat.

The tiny swimming larvae of these sea creatures, also known as moss animals, may live up to a week, long enough to settle in to a new habitat.

However, researchers have found that the journey itself may be perilous and the path to a new habitat could fall apart, meaning some organisms may not make the transition to a new home.

One alternative to creating conservation corridors is managed relocation, where organisms are deliberately collected and moved to a new habitat.

.@NYSDEC offered assistance to the City to transport and find a new habitat for the white - tailed deer captured today https://t.co/yNTcLUkA2M

That could include projects such as building new habitat for birds and new fishing access sites for people.

His new habitat at the Etihad Stadium has seen Bony surrounded by metaphorically bigger, although physically smaller, fish and he genuinely looks out of place in the City squad.

It seems probable, although accurate measurements are impossible, that impulses issuing from Jesus were more potent in shaping Western European peoples, both in Europe and in their newer habitats in the Americas, Australasia, Asia, and Africa, than in any previous era.

Cuomo said, «These efforts will increase New York's marine biodiversity, provide new habitats for a variety of coral and fish, and support a growing tourism industry...»

Its ancestors may have left the ocean for fresh water when sea - level rise opened up new habitats about 6 million years ago.

Amphibians and reptiles, for instance, must often significantly scale back their activity levels in cooler weather, which puts them at a disadvantage when it comes to finding food, mates or new habitats, according to the research.

The climate is changing faster than many species can adapt, forcing them to move to new habitats and drastically altering their range, according to new research.

So ducks and other birds may help aquatic animals colonize new habitats over very long distances.