Sentences with phrase «new habitats at»

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

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

The Plan includes positive steps to require new energy development to be located in close proximity to existing road networks although the stated proximity of 200 metres may not be close enough to maintain undisturbed habitat (at pp 44 - 47), but nonetheless implementing this step with planning regulations that require access plans to be approved and enforced by Alberta Environment, Alberta Forestry, or the Alberta Energy Regulator — once again — seems like pie in the sky.

At a time when the conversation around palm oil centres on deforestation, fires and habitat loss — and global demand shows no signs of abating — several companies have come together to create Palm Done Right, a new standard for ethical palm oil production...

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.

The museum has transferred a family of six endangered red wolves to an expanded 1 - acre habitat at the Wolf Conservation Center of South Salem, New York.

During the summer months, you can cool off at the new «Journey to Churchill Northern Species» exhibit that features expanded polar bear, Arctic fox, wolf, musk ox, caribou, snowy owl, and seal habitats.

Fuertes (1874 - 1927), whose skill at depicting birds actively in their appropriate habitats was arguably greater even than that of John James Audubon, set a new standard for bird illustration.

A new season has dawned at Shedd Aquarium, and some new sights have sprung up in the rockhopper and Magellanic penguin habitat.

And the new study suggests that, historically speaking, these animals are slower at expanding into more suitable habitats.

New research suggests that over millions of years of planetary history, birds and mammals have outperformed amphibians and reptiles at adapting to changing temperatures and shifting their habitats to more suitable locations.

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.

Earlier experiments have looked at why a certain species does better in a new environment than in its natural habitat.

Donna Kline, a fish ecologist at California State University in Monterey Bay, thinks that far from destroying a habitat, the trawl may have created a new one by etching grooves into the flat bottom.

Tumors are notoriously difficult to study in their natural habitat — body tissues — but a new synthetic tissue environment may give cancer researchers the next - best look at tumor growth and behavior.

To see how the new habitats affected these populations, evolutionary ecologist Alexander Badyaev of Auburn University in Alabama and colleague Geoffrey Hill tagged thousands of birds at each site and followed their offspring from hatching through adulthood.

Now, an elaborate genetic study conducted by researchers at Eawag and Bern University helps to explain the secret of its success: the stickleback can evidently adapt very rapidly to new habitats — so rapidly that, for evolutionary biologists, it serves as a model for the divergence of a single species into two or more distinct species.

SAN FRANCISCO — A joint Indonesian — U.S. expedition in the Sulawesi Sea mapped at least 25 different types of undersea habitats and may have discovered dozens of new species, scientists announced here December 13 at the American Geophysical Union meeting.

The study's lead author, Barry Baldigo, a research biologist at the US Geological Survey's New York Water Science Center, said eDNA has become an increasingly important tool for quickly and accurately assessing biodiversity in aquatic habitats.

Pika populations were most likely to go locally extinct at sites with high summer temperatures and low habitat area, said Joseph Stewart, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz and first author of a paper reporting the new findings, published January 29 in the Journal of Biogeography.

James Diaz, MD, DrPH, Professor and Program Director of Environmental / Occupational Health Sciences at LSU Health New Orleans School of Public Health, details characteristics of the mosquitoes capable of transmitting the Zika virus in the United States, their habitats and biting behaviors, as well as control measures, in a paper published in the December 2016, issue of Wilderness & Environmental Medicine.

Cheung and his colleague used modeling to predict how 802 commercially important species of fish and invertebrates react to warming water temperatures, other changing ocean properties, and new habitats opening up at the poles.

In the case of Arctic whales, the changes in sea ice might benefit their populations, at least in the short term: the loss and earlier retreat of sea ice opens up new habitats and, in some areas of the Arctic, has also led to an increase in food production and the length of their feeding season.

For instance, a new biodiversity indicator weeds out protected areas that do not intersect with species» habitats, showing where national parks may be ineffective at protecting 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.

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

Even though there may be more creatures at the base, it's not clear what their effects will be on fish or other crabs in the habitat, and how much protection the new landscape will provide,» said Dijkstra.

Another study looking at lizard family trees will test whether these patterns might play a role in evolution on a larger scale: By giving lizards protection as they move around, stripes may allow them to explore different habitats, increasing the speed at which new species appear.

They also became bigger to more effectively digest this low quality food, and as a strategy against predators in these new, open habitats,» explains Juan L. Cantalapiedra, researcher at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany.

A comprehensive look at dozens of species, it finds that many North American and European bumble bees are failing to «track» warming by colonizing new habitats north of their historic range.

A new global analysis of forest habitat loss and wildlife extinction risk published July 19 in the journal Nature shows that species most at risk live in areas just beginning to see the impacts of human activities such as hunting, mining, logging and ranching.

Fishes» fear of sharks helps shape shallow reef habitats in the Pacific, according to new research by a scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences.

Professor Poinar continues, «Mammoths were much better at adapting to new habitats than we first thought — we suspect that subgroups of mammoths evolved to deal with local conditions, but maintained genetic continuity by encountering and potentially interbreeding with each other where their two different habitats met, such as at the edge of glaciers and ice sheets.»

«Exploitation of the same habitat, but key differences at important times of the year, suggests that competition between a single species works to preserve the different phenotypes we observed - whilst simultaneously creating the potential for so - called sympatric speciation, i.e. the potential for a new species to form without geographic isolation,» says Hawley.

So last year the couple, who have two cats at home, decided to donate $ 500,000 for a new tiger habitat at Assiniboine Park Zoo.

Not only are they able to check out the new tiger habitat at the local Winnipeg Zoo on weekends and see the kids from their hometown enjoying it, they're also learning a lot in the process.

Support is being sought to fund the reconstruction of a new rabbit habitat at the RAPS City of Richmond Animal Shelter.

Iv just got a new Syrian hamster, he is very nervous and was making squeaking noises when taking him out of he's habitat in pets at home, when we opened the cardboard box and he seen my partner he immediately started squeeking, he's very nervous, we have got him a huge cage with lots of enrichment and different tubes to go in, he is 9 weeks old and we are worried he won't take to us, has anyone any tips on how we can bond?

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.

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.

In short, these hamster handling tips will help make your new hamster transition from its old home at the pet store to its new hamster habitat at your house with as little stress on it as possible.

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.

Enjoy dinner under the stars at a remote and beautiful outpost that borders a «small» sheep station of 2.5 million acres — a special experience Globus had included to make sure your Australia vacation is unique.Other highlights of this Australia tour include an excursion to Kangaroo Island to see Australian sea lions, koalas, kangaroos, wallabies, and New Zealand fur seals in one of the world's last unspoiled habitats.

The documentary - inspired trailer reveals Pokémon in their habitats and hints at new creatures coming to the game.

«Our team at NASA looks forward to these opportunities to engage academia in helping us path find new solutions to the challenges of exploration, and this opportunity to work on the transit habitat concept with Pratt Institute is a perfect example,» said Tracy R. Gill, X-Hab Program Coordinator, NASA / Kennedy Space Center.

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With its partners at the National Park Service and the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, JBRPC works to expand public access; increase recreational and educational opportunities; foster citizen stewardship and volunteerism; preserve and restore natural areas, including wetland and wildlife habitat; enhance cultural resources; and ensure the long - term sustainability of the parklands, including the development of the Science and Resilience Institute.

Young Swedish artist Sara - Vide Ericson is on show at V1 Gallery, with a series of new paintings and drawings depicting lonely figures within natural habitats at the frontier between the uncanny and the familiar.