Sentences with phrase «of desert habitat»

Building enough photovoltaic arrays to power Los Angeles would mean blanketing thousands of square miles of desert habitat.

I'm hot on the trail of the scrawny, crested Kulu - Ya - Ku, down the winding paths of its desert habitat and into the lair of a native herbivore.

I'm hot on the trail of the scrawny, crested Kulu - Ya - Ku, down the winding paths of its desert habitat and into the lair of a native herbivore.

Not exact matches

Though the desert shrubs cover only about 20 percent of the desert floor, they are the crucial habitat of lizards, snakes, mice, and birds.

As you move from west to east, from the low, scorching deserts of the Colorado River basin to the snow - and pine - topped mountains near the New Mexico border, a range of habitat unfolds.

This led first to a new underground lifestyle and then subsequent colonization of many habitats such as water, forests, deserts, and prairies.

Example: Oakland, Calif. - based BrightSource Energy Inc. last month scrapped plans to build a solar power plant on 5,130 acres in the Mojave Desert in southern California after months of protest from environmental groups concerned that the project would threaten important habitat for bighorn sheep.

«Now, we have better information when deciding which habitats to protect for desert tortoises, and where to attempt re-establishment of desert tortoise populations with future releases.»

Ranids are found on every continent but Antarctica and in a wide range of habitats, from trees to deserts.

[Luis Marone et al, Diet switching of seed - eating birds wintering in grazed habitats of the central Monte Desert, Argentina]

«The Swainson's warbler is becoming a conservation success story in a habitat that was once feared to be a biological desert,» said Graves, curator of birds in the Department of Vertebrate Zoology.

Bandicoots are the marsupial equivalents of rodents and rabbits that today occupy a spectrum of desert through to rainforest habitats across Australia, New Guinea and surrounding islands.

Ever since Lake Lahontan dried up thousands of years ago, the Black Rock Desert in Nevada has been a forbidding habitat.

«Their knowledge of how to live in the desert is crucial to the survival of future generations of elephants in the arid habitat, and pressure from hunting and climate change may only increase in the coming decades.

There are several habitats once thought to be inhospitable to even the world's most adaptable organisms — places like the core of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest region on Earth; ice sheet plateaus in Greenland that are 10,000 feet thick; and near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor with temperatures above 750 degrees Fahrenheit, to name a few.

The vast desert regions of the Sahara and the Arabian Peninsula contain numerous archaeological sites, indicating that Pleistocene hominins penetrated these areas, living in more favourable habitats [1], [2].

Some parts of snow leopard habitat, such as the massifs of the Gobi Desert of Mongolia are virtually devoid of vegetation.

You can see the impact of habitat loss on local climate by poking a stick into the parched soils of the Brazilian cerrado or wandering along the boundary of the expanding Sahel Desert in Africa.

For starters, succulents have special water - storing tissues that allow them to stay alive for long periods of time without water and survive weirdly diverse — anywhere from desert to alpine — habitats.

It is a great resource to discuss habitats, different climates and regions of the world like deserts, forests, riversides, mountains etc..

Children can print and color these pages to discover more about the habitat of the Mojave Desert.

Primarily found on the island of Madagascar, but also Asia, Africa and even the United States, their habitats range from tropical rain forests to west African deserts.

Although they exist in a variety of shapes, sizes and colors, and may be found in habitats from desert to arctic tundra, perhaps the most familiar wild rabbit to Americans is the cottontail rabbit (Sylvilagus spp.), so - called for its round, fluffy, white tail.

Rattlesnakes are widespread in California and are found in a variety of habitat throughout the state from coastal to desert.

Rattlesnakes live in a variety of habitats, they are found in wetlands, deserts and forests, from sea level to mountain elevations.

They utilize a wide range of habitat from grasslands to deserts to forests and more recently, urban parks and neighborhoods.

The variety of bird habitats, from ocean coast and inland waterways to mountain peaks, and from rainforests to deserts, can be astounding.

One of the problems of deserted beaches is that undisturbed sand can be the perfect habitat for sand flies.

It presently occupies historical habitats from the bayous of Louisiana to the Sonoran Desert and the eastern deciduous forests of Quebec and New England.

In search of the fabulous wildlife of the world from aardvarks to zebras and featuring varying habitats from deserts to jungles.

The region includes a spectacular mosaic of wetlands, mangroves, dunes and desert habitats.

My fitness and experience is well - suited to a variety of challenging environments including the open ocean, temperate and tropic underwater habitats, deserts, coastal regions, mountain and sub-arctic terrain.

In contrast to Nestler's installation are Robin Stein's photographs of stark dwellings dotting the desert landscape, whose residents are utilizing the land as a habitat, albeit its hostile and unyielding characteristics.

Meagan Estep of the Phillips Collection, who worked with Kenmore Middle School to create lessons based around exhibitions at her museum, said she's also worked with a preschool teacher to create a lesson about ecology and habitats based around a Georgia O'Keefe painting, Ranchos Church, of an austere church in the desert.

In San Diego, we are lucky to have a diverse set of habitats: Beach, Chaparral, Mountains, Desert, and more.

Insects can be found in almost all terrestrial and freshwater habitats, from the driest deserts to freshwater ponds, from the canopy of a tropical rainforest (where their diversity is unbelievably great) to the arctic wastes.

It includes a wide range of ecosystems from desert or semi-desert areas to coastal and marine habitats.

It is also taken to refer to the variety of ecosystems or habitats on Earth: from ocean to desert, lake to farmland.

From coral reefs to deserts, we work to protect a myriad of habitats so we can preserve the diversity of life on Earth.

Most importantly, they fail to point out that the project site lies in some of the best habitat available to the golden eagle in this entire desert region.

BrightSource also has had to mitigate its environmental footprint to contend with the desert tortoise by avoiding long - term impacts to 433 acres of habitat, as well as acquiring additional land off the Ivanpah site for tortoise relocation within their home range.

The Western is more of a forest bird, the Mountain more partial to open habitats: high sagebrush desert, mountain meadows, and even alpine tundra.

BrightSource has had to mitigate their environmental footprint to contend with the desert tortoise by avoiding long - term impacts to 433 acres of habitat, as well as acquiring additional land off the Ivanpah site for tortoise relocation within their home range.

This desert woodpecker is tolerant of various habitat types within its range: broadleaf riparian groves, saguaro «forests,» and urban districts.

The building of the massive 5.6 - square mile Ivanpah solar project in the Mojave Desert by BrightSource Energy has been suspended in the midst of construction while the U.S. Bureau of Land Management assesses whether more than 3,000 acres of tortoise habitat would be lost.

Discussing the ongoing tug of war in the Mojave Desert between protecting habitat for endangered species and developers of large - scale solar power installations (protect habitat of one species versus helping protect the habitat of lots of species, humans included), Madrigal writes,

OK, so maybe the festive teeth and beady eyes and wrinkled hairless skin aren't exactly cuddly — they're like the exact opposite of a kitten — but they are exquisitely designed to live in the habitat of their choice, tunnels beneath the hot African desert.

Meanwhile, the Central Valley could become the preferred habitat for plants of the Sonoran Desert.

You can see the impact of habitat loss on local climate by poking a stick into the parched soils of the Brazilian cerrado or wandering along the boundary of the expanding Sahel Desert in Africa.