Sentences with phrase «new habitats over»

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

Not exact matches

Effects on one part of an ecosystem affect other parts over time, and climate change is already altering many natural habitats vital to New England.

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.

A new competition, Moon Capital, turned the question of what that habitat will look like over to the imagination of architects, engineers and artists.

After over three billion years of evolution in the oceans, multi-cellular life — beginning with green algae, fungi, and plants (liverworts, mosses, ferns, then vascular and flowering plants)-- began adapting to land habitats by creating a new «hypersea,» and adding anomalous shades of green to Earth's coloration more than 472 million years ago (Matt Walker, BBC News, October 12, 2010; and Qiu et al, 1998 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

As a result, life on Earth has flourished for over four billion years by recycling its own wastes and exploiting new habitats with physiological adaptations, through occasional environmental disasters such as catastrophic meteoric impacts.

«There have been a lot of recent changes — the advent of agriculture, shifts in diet, new habitats, climatic conditions — over the past 10,000 years, and we're using these data to look for those signals of very recent adaptation.»

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

Since 2002, this team has built and maintained 125 miles of trail, restored over 1,000 acres of habitat, protected historic batteries, created 8 new overlooks and thrown many memorable dinners.

Since 2002, this team has built and maintained 125 miles of trail, restored over 1,000 acres of habitat, protected historic batteries, created eight new overlooks, and held nine memorable benefit dinners — so far.

In 2009 Mattingly founded the Waterpod Project, a barge - based public space and self - sufficient habitat that hosted over 200,000 visitors in New York.

For our planet's wildlife, creatures which evolved over millions of car - free years, these mechanical monsters must seem like a puzzling new arrival to their local habitats — fast - moving threats which appear to be multiplying at an alarming rate.

A new paper that combines paleoclimatology data for the last 56 million years with molecular genetic evidence concludes there were no biological extinctions [of Arctic marine animals] over the last 1.5 M years despite profound Arctic sea ice changes that included ice - free summers: polar bears, seals, walrus and other species successfully adapted to habitat changes that exceeded those predicted by USGS and US Fish and Wildlife polar bear biologists over the next 100 years.

Species can become extinct when humans over hunt and over fish, pollute the environment, destroy habitats, and introduce new species to areas.

In the West, the populated fire zone is called the urban wildland interface, a clunky term to describe a vulnerable habitat for almost 40 percent of new homes built over the last two decades.

However, on a more local level, global warming may have a significant impact, as original and newly introduced species spread faster from one place to another and take over new patches of habitat.

A new study in Nature Climate Change shows that some habitats in the North Pacific could move in the next century over 600 miles from where they are now located, due to warming ocean waters.

Over the last 50 years, orangutan populations have been in dramatic decline due to external factors like habitat fragmentation and poaching — but a new study reveals the startling pervasiveness of their threat from humans.