Sentences with phrase «of habitat caused»

bird feeders and nesting boxes — but as much to compensate for the destruction of habitat caused by the creation of the plot on which their home stands than for the occasional kill that their cat makes.

While it's true that feral cats do pose a threat to endangered birds, the bigger threat comes from a disasterous loss of habitat caused by indiscriminate development.

Not exact matches

When these changes take effect, on a date which has yet to be announced, the prohibition on altering a fish's habitat will be replaced with a prohibition on causing «serious harm to fish that are part of a commercial, recreational or Aboriginal fishery, or to fish that support such a fishery.»

Such a perspective fails to consider that overhunting, pest - control measures, and habitat destruction have caused the rate of extinction to accelerate exponentially.

But declines are occurring in the absence of destruction of habitats, suggesting other causes such as pollution from pesticides, acid rain and increases in ultraviolet exposure or even change in climate (Blaustein & Wake 1990).

Researchers point to things like the destruction of wild habitats, hunting and other increased challenges as the cause of the extinction.

Synthetic fertilizers, almost 973 million pounds of which were used on U.S. upland cotton in 2015, [23] are considered detrimental to the environment, causing leaching and runoff affecting freshwater habitats and wells.

Worldwide, habitat destruction is the leading cause of bird population declines and loss of biodiversity.

Worldwide, habitat destruction is the leading cause of bird population declines.

In fact it may be a cause in destroying the habitats of wildlife and washing up on the beaches of paradise.

Their findings indicated, simply, that at a minimum, mining «would cause the loss of spawning and rearing habitat for multiple salmoniods.»

Finally there is Dennis Chamberland, a NASA engineer who has been trumpeting the cause of aquatic habitats for years.

Moving forward, Lutter and Dayer will further explore the experiences of landowners in programs to manage young forest in an effort to understand what causes some of them to manage habitat after incentives from conservation programs have ended.

The comparison of orangutan and habitat losses suggests that land clearance caused the most dramatic rates of decline.

But then it admits that development will cause «the loss of all suitable nightingale habitat».

Invaders are now the second-most important cause of global biodiversity loss after habitat destruction, and the more we move about, the more they spread.

And it is a mass extinction entirely caused by the relentless expansion of human habitat and agriculture, as well as human domination of the natural systems — such as the climate — that make life possible.

First was the pipeline, a megaproject that challenged biologists to come up with habitat - protecting measures for fish and wildlife along a 1000 - km corridor of disturbance caused by construction.

Descendants of Eurasian boars from Russia and introduced for sport hunting long ago, they cause substantial damage to indigenous habitats.

Based on a scientific literature review of 14 other publications, including some that looked at effects of existing walls and fences on the border, the authors outlined several concerns about the proposed wall, including habitat destruction and degradation caused by the construction of the wall and the roads on either side of the wall.

«The No. 1 cause of extinction of organisms is loss of habitat,» he said.

By visualizing this environment, they could better understand the damage that could be caused to natural habitats and the importance of preserving them.

The renowned Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson has claimed that the introduction of alien species is second only to habitat destruction as the leading cause of extinctions worldwide.

The authors showed that after the initial waves of human arrival, mammal extinctions followed, presumably first caused by hunting and later by forest clearing for agriculture, which reduces the habitat for native mammals.

Scottish researchers have shown that airborne pollution is causing nitrogen to accumulate in the tissues of plants growing in threatened habitats such as sphagnum bogs, lowland heaths and heather moors.

It has caused tremendous damage to fisheries in the Black Sea after arriving in ballast water from its original habitat along the East coast of North America.

The findings also suggest that previous techniques using satellites to measure drought stress in rainforests may be missing dire impacts of a warming global climate, which many scientists believe will cause more droughts in those critical habitats.

The greatest cause of species extinction is loss of habitat.

The work covered just one small part of Europe, and the authors could not explain what might be causing the drop, whether climate change, habitat destruction or something else.

«It is likely in the case of the red wolf and the Great Lakes [eastern] wolf that mixture with coyotes was caused by human actions, wolf control, and habitat destruction, which allowed coyote numbers to increase.

However, the ongoing loss of marsh habitat could cause Mottled Ducks to move into urban and suburban areas, where they will be more likely to encounter resident Mallards.

A veteran defender of the forests claims they could in fact be buying timber cut from rare tiger habitat or regions where there is illegal logging, or removed using methods that cause epidemics of malaria.

The model shows that if animals are still doing what they did before habitat damage caused by decades of agricultural intensification, then large, early - nesting species such as great tits will be fine, but late - nesting species such as tree sparrows will decline.

«This demonstrates that while wood thrushes are sensitive to breeding forest fragmentation, it is not the main cause of declines, rather the loss and / or degradation of habitat in the winter range in Central America is the culprit,» Taylor said.

«The loss of key habitat is causing significant conservation challenges for Sumatra — and in particular for this critically endangered species.»

Research suggests human - caused habitat alteration has reduced resiliency of the small mammal community in Utah's Great Basin

As agricultural intensification expands across the world, the conversion of their natural habitats has caused a dramatic decline in population.

Many researchers attribute the extinction to human causes — that is, they believe the animals were hunted and deprived of habitat until they died out.

Today we may be in the throes of another mass extinction, caused by human overexploitation of habitats.

The causes range from destruction of their local habitats to global depletion of the ozone layer

Sea level rise caused by global warming can prove extremely destructive to island habitats, which hold about 20 % of the world's biodiversity.

Yet those are amongst the regions most vulnerable to potential sea level rise, which in their case would cause a direct reduction of habitat.

Urbanization is an important factor because it changes the species composition in an area, favoring the types of mosquitoes that live near and feed on people, such as Aedes aegypti, and causing other species to decline, such as those adapted to wetlands and other natural habitats.

«So while it is possible that reduced accessibility of foraging habitat might cause loss of northern colonies in the future, there is no evidence that we have yet reached a tipping point at which this occurs.»

Although it's important, logging isn't the only cause of habitat destruction near the overwintering roosts.

In the Caribbean, unsustainable land management practices are causing soil degradation and damage of natural habitats, contributing to the loss of biodiversity and reduction of natural buffers to droughts and floods.

Several sets of major influences are causing South Georgia's habitats to change.

And while climate change remains a legitimate concern for wildlife — particularly on isolated mountaintops and in species - poor polar regions — it does not come close to the immediate, irreparable damage caused by the destruction of habitat.

September 23, 2008 — Eastern Arizona's Apache - Sitgreaves National Forest, key Mexican gray wolf habitat, proposed a new policy requiring livestock owners to dispose of their own animals» carcasses when those animals died from causes unrelated to wolves.

The main cause for their dwindling population is the destruction of their habitat.