Sentences with word «nonnative»

For example, at the federal level there is a strong effort to improve the education of students with disabilities and of nonnative speakers of English.

Many of the extinct freshwater fishes lived in the Great Lakes region and most likely died off because settlements and cities built on the lakes contributed to pollution, overfishing and the introduction of nonnative species that outcompeted them.

However, it is unclear if a relationship exists between extroversion - introversion traits and English language proficiency for nonnative speakers.

The introduction of nonnative plant species is considered a top environmental threat to the Galápagos Islands, so do not bring any fruits, vegetables, or plants of any kind with you.

Cinnabar is not alone in its tech - aided quest to meet the needs of a rapidly growing population of nonnative English speakers in U.S. schools.

English has become the lingua franca of the scientific community over the past decades, and as a result there is an increasing need for nonnative speakers to learn the language of science and technology — English for Science and Technology (EST)-- in order to enable them to take part in international scientific communication.

That information may explain why other nonnative species become invasive and may suggest new ways to tame them.

San Miguel Island's native vegetation has made a remarkable recovery after years of grazing by nonnative animals.

Ten years after removing nonnative rats the ecosystem on Anacapa Island, including rare seabirds, is showing profound results of recovery.

Channel Islands National Park supports a diverse terrestrial flora, including many rare, relict, and endemic species, as well as many nonnative species.

Identify practical skills needed by nonnative speaking early childhood educators and families to listen, speak, read, and write in English on the topics of early childhood care, education, and child development.

In a paper published online today in Biology Letters, a group of ecologists argues that the guppies — and other nonnative fish used for mosquito control — haven't actually proven very effective mosquito fighters, but are known to pose ecological risks.

The project is part of an ongoing effort to return the national park to its native state by removing nonnative interlopers such as sheep, burros, pigs and golden eagles.

This has led to problems such as nonnative species escaping into the wild and pollution as well as sea lice infestation and disease, because there is no barrier between captive salmon and the wild version in surrounding waters.

This recovery, along with the removal of nonnative predators, has aided in the reestablishment of nesting land birds and seabirds.

Discover established curriculum and materials specifically designed for increasing the English language proficiency among nonnative speaking early childhood educators.

The research is important because it quantifies interactions between deer and invasive plants — and how, over time, deer might be exacerbating problems with nonnative plant species, according to researcher David Mortensen, professor of weed ecology in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

The traditional approach for roadsides has been to use herbicides, plant nonnative grasses, and then maintain them by mowing.

Washington, DC, REVISED May 12, 2009 — The Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council (PIJAC) gratefully recognizes the collaborative efforts of pet owners, aquarium societies, bird clubs, herpetological societies, hobby clubs, pet organizations, and pet industry members who took time to educate their communities and express their concerns about the proposed Nonnative Wildlife Invasion Prevention Act (HR 669).

In the Frank Church — River of No Return, the derangements include nonnative plants, missing fish, and the tremendous and growing popularity of rafting trips on the Salmon and Middle Fork rivers.

Understory plant cover for both native and nonnative invasive species was positively associated with the AM fungi, however, invasive species cover increased at a rate 12 times greater than native species as AM - tree - dominance increased.

Is it possible to predict which nonnative plant species will become invasive weeds and when?

On otherwise barren mudflats, habitat - forming invasive species such as nonnative seaweed can offset the loss of foundation species and provide vital ecosystem services, such as storm protection and food production, on which nearly half the human population depends.

It is part of an ongoing program to return the park to its native state by removing, alive or dead, such nonnative interlopers as sheep, burros, rabbits, pigs and golden eagles.

Explore various strategies to promote English language proficiency among nonnative speaking early childhood educators and families.

Introducing nonnative species into new ecosystems has an ignominious history, not least in Australia, where the deliberately introduced European red fox and domestic cat have wreaked havoc on native wildlife.

But they don't seem to bug the islands» native and nonnative birds.

Their primary charge is to bring nonnative speakers up to speed, but writing coaches can be a great help to everyone.

This is especially true in terms of the status of young scientists, the internationalization of degree program structures, proactive information and advice about career and research opportunities, university marketing, and the integration of successful nonnative graduates into the country's job market.

The recent infestation of nonnative zebra mussels throughout North American waters was probably started by ships carrying the shellfish in ballast water.

Before sending the critters to their original homeland, however, the Lord Howe Island Board plans to eradicate the black rats and a second nonnative rodent in 2018.

Next, the researchers estimated the chances of one or more of the 13 nonnative bivalve species sold as seafood in the Western U.S. — but not yet established in coastal waters — being introduced into the regional marine environment.

Nonnative aquatic organisms cost hundreds of millions of dollars every year in the United States alone.

That raised a worrisome question: Can nonnative mollusks somehow escape from the seafood department to the ocean?

Over time, a mating population of native and non-native fish will result in only hybrid individuals with substantially reduced fitness because their genomes have been infiltrated by nonnative genes that are maladapted to the local environment.

Foreign countries themselves may have funding for nonnative postdocs.

The investigators looked at data from 1,055 river basins covering 80 percent of the earth's land and found six «global invasion hotspots,» where more than 25 percent of freshwater fish are nonnative migrants.

Leprieur also expresses amazement «that natural processes are blurred by human activities in controlling the richness of nonnative freshwater fish species.»

She suspects the benefit can be traced to similarities in the ways nonnative speakers acquire and use English.

Not only can crystallization be difficult, or in some cases impossible, but it also may favor nonnative conformations of a biological molecule, delivering a structure that is an inaccurate representation of its arrangement in nature.

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SOLV's Green Team program brings experts into classrooms and puts tools into student hands, helping students and teachers restore local streams by collecting garbage, eradicating nonnative plant species, and planting thousands of trees, among other projects.

She noted that Success schools tend to have fewer nonnative English speakers and special - education students than public schools; those groups tend to score lower on tests.

Additionally, Congress introduced companion bills ostensibly designed to establish an improved regulatory process for injurious wildlife to prevent the introduction and establishment of potentially harmful nonnative wildlife and wild animal pathogens and parasites.

Jim Stevenson, executive director of the Galveston Ornithological Society, doesn't much care when urban cats hunt nonnative species such as the common domestic rat or collared dove.

In winter, monarch butterflies, more often seen on the Central Coast in eucalyptus trees and other nonnative flora, cluster in the park's Monterey pines.

They were once shot as vermin, but their numbers have rebounded, thanks in part to the overabundance of nonnative rabbits — one benefit of an introduced pest.