Sentences with phrase «of current habitat»

Developed and implemented interactive science unit based on habitats that concluded with the students creating dioramas of current habitat.

«Our observation that groups matched their compositions to the one optimal at their site of origin (regardless of their current habitat) is particularly important,» Pruitt and Goodnight write, «given that many respected researchers have argued that group selection can not lead to group adaptation except in clonal groups and that group selection theory is inefficient and bankrupt.»

The team predicts that viable caribou habitat will shift north, the southernmost herds will disappear and herds in northeastern North America will become more threatened with extinction, losing up to 89 % of their current habitat.

Not exact matches

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.

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

Special emphasis is given to the protection of big trees as habitat for migratory and local bird populations and other wildlife species — a requirement not present in SAN's current 2010 standard.

The key objective of this proposal is to maximise the current Murray cod spawning response by providing suitable habitat inundation and associated food resources throughout their critical breeding period (mid Oct — mid Dec).

A recordable magnifying glass and a pair of recordable binoculars would both be useful for our current topic which is all about habitats!

Support the protection of important bird habitat, and be knowledgeable and current with Mass Audubon bird conservation programs.

Residents» capacity to produce their community by defining the meanings of their urban habitat is one of the most crucial — and yet highly overlooked — rights to be exercised in current society.

Crowley believes that gaining a better understanding of how animal mobility has been affected by the loss of species and habitat will be beneficial to current and future conservation efforts on the island.

It is estimated that nearly 68 percent of the areas where current and future habitat will overlap is already safeguarded by parks and reserves.

Instead of trying to recreate the past, we could deliberately move species: to revive habitats, to protect species vulnerable in their current homelands, and to encourage the evolutionary spurt.

Current species losses are just the tip of the iceberg as the effects of habitat loss take time to manifest

At least 30 per cent of native habitat needs to be preserved to maintain current levels of biodiversity

The maps might show that current conservation efforts have failed, given that global species - saving efforts have grown as have the extent of protected habitats, although IUCN's Stuart rejects that claim.

They modelled relationships between environmental factors in the forest and where possums occurred to assign habitat suitability values, expressed as a percentage of the optimal habitat for the species, to both the current reserve system and possible expanded systems.

The team is trying to understand life history traits of benthos at the initial stage and the influence of ocean currents in order to find out how these organisms expand their habitat and respond to environmental changes.

The researchers found that the current reserve system had a habitat suitability value of just 29.6 percent, whilst expanded systems had higher values, between 33.7 percent and 61.5 percent.

With the current human population growth, these plants can not sustain such high levels of collection and habitat loss.»

«The current recovery plan doesn't recognize that there are two distinct taxa on the islands; therefore, monitoring of population size and habitat use that treats all Hawaiian bats as a single unit is likely providing measures that are overestimated and not accurate for either taxon.»

They report that the future resilience of penguin populations to climate change impacts will almost certainly depend upon addressing current threats to existing habitat degradation on land and at sea.

In 2010 Russia's then deputy prime minister Sergei Ivanov, arguing for the park, told the 14th Congress of the Russian Geographical Society that the current state of the leopard habitat is degraded and exploited; for example, there are several military facilities located within the Leopardoviy refuge.

But there are many unknowns about the current status of 11 species of marine mammals who depend on Arctic sea ice to live, feed and breed, and about how their fragile habitat will evolve in a warming world.

Participants are required to explore NASA's work on development of deep - space habitats and help the agency gather new ideas to complement its current research and development.

Siler and colleagues found that current laws in the Philippines protect less than 10 % of existing habitats that are suitable for sailfin dragons.

By shedding light on potential mechanisms that facilitated that bear's survival during her long swim, as well as the overall metabolism and activity of bears, the current study «profoundly contributes to understanding the value of summer habitats used by polar bears in terms of their energetics,» Harlow says.

«Such long - term insights are crucial in helping with current conservation efforts, laying a foundation for future research on impacts of island formation, climate change and human occupation on animals and their habitats.»

Such habitat losses will likely increase, as the country's current population of about 22 million is projected to more than double by 2050.

The study is the first to give a global overview of all current plans to mine the seabed, in both national and international waters, and looks at the potential impacts including physical destruction of seabed habitats, creation of large underwater plumes of sediment and the effects of chemical, noise and light pollution arising from mining operations.

In his latest ruling yesterday, U.S. District Court Judge James A. Redden concluded that the current biological opinion fails to identify specific habitat improvements after 2013 needed to ensure continued recovery of the fish runs.

But for other species, like the black salamander, a changing climate produces new pockets of habitat to the north, but they don't ever overlap the salamander's current or future range in the San Francisco Bay Area, leaving the animals stranded.

The researchers focused on streams draining seven national forests in the southern Appalachian region, first mapping out how much of the area's current habitat is suitable for acid - and heat - sensitive aquatic species such as the native brook trout.

Sax, who studies amphibian responses to climate change, says, «There are a lot of species you wouldn't normally be concerned about that might be in trouble in the future» because a barrier stands between their current habitat and one they might need to occupy in coming decades.

Top on their agenda: new technology that holds the promise of protecting natural water habitats from pollution as well as tech that purifies current water systems better and helps tap into new potential sources of drinking water.

Evaluate and map the current status of key snow leopard populations and habitats to set baselines and indicators against which to assess future change, conduct economic valuation of snow leopard habitats, and intensify scientific research and monitoring to support future policy and action.

Even if you ignore all the temperature meauserments which you seem to vehimently deny there is still many other sources of evidence associated with this increase such as — ice melt / extreme weather events / sea current changes / habitat changes / CO2 / ice cores / sediment cores.

Research using climate models suggests that the combined effects of higher temperatures and lower oxygen will drive many marine animals away from their current habitats to areas with more oxygen, according to in a recent press release...

In the abyssal realm, seafloor habitats under areas of deep - water formation (e.g., those in the North Atlantic and Southern Oceans) could experience a maximum decline in O2 concentration of 0.03 mL L — 1 by 2100 (i.e., a 0.5 % drop from current levels; Tables 2, 3; Figures 2, 3).

Assisted adaptation — often defined as management to assist gene flow or selection for specific genetic traits — may be a more useful tool than assisted migration whereby a species is deliberately moved to a different habitat; carefully consider implications of either action Identify potential climate refugia to focus restoration efforts Plant a mix of seeds genetically selected and adapted to likely future and current conditions (McLachlan et al. 2007; McKenney et al. 2009; Aitken and Whitlock 2013; Alfaro et al. 2014)

The researchers claimed that changing weather patterns would commit up to 37 percent of the world's species to extinction by 2050 — far more than would go extinct if we continued at the current rate of habitat destruction.

«Therefore, this study adds important new evidence on the safety of neonicotinoid use, but we still can not exclude the impact of other pesticides and habitat loss on the current bee declines.

Current prices for conventionally grown foods do not reflect the costs of federal subsidies to conventional agriculture, the cost of contaminated drinking water, loss of wildlife habitat and soil erosion, or the cost of the disposal and clean up of hazardous wastes generated by the manufacturing of pesticides.

At this site, you can also study the history of the ESA, read about current environmental issues, and obtain overviews of government programs to save endangered species and habitats

The value, role and contributions of Agroforestry and protection of endemic habitats, in light of current global environmental challenges, can not be over-emphasised.

Fewer predators (do not need the protection of a pod) in the current habitat - most lone dolphins are observed in coastal habitats, whereas when found in the open ocean lone dolphins will swim with other species of cetaceans

Whether because a cat has abruptly lost her owner, a feral cat can not safely remain in his current habitat, or a myriad of other reasons, shelter admission will still be the right choice.

«Although habitat loss is responsible for the original decline of the Lower Keys marsh rabbit, high mortality from cats may be the greatest current threat to the persistence of the Lower Keys marsh rabbit [4].»

Prevailing currents seemed likely to smash the wreck, still carrying 60,000 gallons of fuel oil, into the coral reefs of Johnston Atoll, critical habitat for several endangered species.

... «However, it is not the loss of habitat that is causing the current cat crisis in the Cairngorms.