Sentences with phrase «of similar habitats»

According to new research, mid-altitudes host the largest number of species because the size and the connectedness of similar habitats are greatest there.

Not exact matches

And importantly, there is no similar data to compare the quality of present coffee farms with the habitat from which they were carved.

As farms disappear and forests return, the large swaths of hay fields and similar habitats that bobolink require for breeding and raising young continue to shrink in size and number.

But a prairie plant in the Midwest, where many miles of land have a similar temperature, might have to travel much farther to remain in its preferred habitat.

Bacteria and diatoms inhabit those liquid veins, and Hajo Eicken, a glaciologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, suspects that similar habitats could exist in the lower, warmer layers of ice on Europa, and perhaps on the other moons as well.

Because a habitat may contain related moth species that use the same flowers as nectar sources but different host plants to lay their eggs, the researchers would like to investigate whether odors that provide olfactory cues to identify the best oviposition sites activate similar areas in the antennal lobe of these moths, or whether the functional atlas of the brain is different in each species.

The researchers found that the body condition of alligators found near wading bird nesting colonies was higher than those in similar habitat without active colonies, independent of a range of environmental variables.

It is easiest for a microbe to jump between closely related habitats, from an animal species with one sort of body chemistry to a closely related animal species with very similar body chemistry.

The authors suggest that human activity may even be driving a similar Lilliput - like pattern in the modern world, as more and more large animals go extinct because of hunting, habitat destruction, and climate change.

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

Do birds in the same habitat have similar types of feet?

The effort is also intended to prevent the introduction of harmful Earth life that could kill off any Martians, similar to how invasive species edge native organisms out of Earth's habitats.

Other species that share similar habitats with the Gulf killifish, such as redfish, speckled trout, flounder, blue crabs, shrimp and oysters — may be at risk of similar effects.

One of our biggest programs in Africa is working to improve the lives of people in 52 villages around Gombe National Park and spread out through the rest of the chimp habitat in Tanzania — and we have similar programs in Uganda, DRC [Democratic Republic of the Congo], the Republic of [the] Congo, Senegal and Burundi.

In this respect, the spectrum of species in Lake Victoria is now similar to that found in Lake Tanganyika or in marine habitats, where fish with pharyngeal jaws have existed alongside competitors without such jaws for up to 60 million years and have therefore never become specialized for predation on large fish.

Furthermore, Archaeornithura had long legs and feet apparently adapted to wading in water, similar to those of today's plovers, suggesting that modern birds arose in aquatic habitats.

Here we assessed the song structure of male mountain chickadees using two exemplars of high and low elevation habitats on two different mountains in the Sierra Nevada with similar mixed - conifer forest structure.

Conversely, hawks tend to be strongly territorial, intolerant of human disturbance, and prefer prey like jackrabbits that occupy similar habitats,» said coauthor and USGS ecologist Kristy Howe, whose masters thesis research with WCS formed the foundation of this study.

The great forest disturbances created by Passenger Pigeon megaflocks — which were described by American ornithologist John James Audubon as similar to tornadoes — were a constant variable in the formula of eastern forest habitats.

This result agrees with the different habitats and ecological roles of each strain, being F113 a rhizospheric bacterium with biocontrol activities (32), similar to UM270; while UK4 is a biofilm former with no attributed plant - associated activity (15).

One big step would be to draw on the successes of National Parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite by creating similar areas for underwater habitats.

Since environment and diet change microbiomes, we can expect that when introducing the extinct species into its former habitat and giving it its former diet, the microbiome will change and become similar to the original microbiome of the extinct species.

Some of these programs mimic foraging choices similar to that found in an animal's natural habitat, including hiding food, or hanging fruit from a tree.

Because of their isolation and remote nature, the Channel Islands support fewer native animal species than similar habitats on the mainland.

To examine the causes and consequences of the increase, we assessed abundance, body mass, home - range size, spatial resource use (den sites and habitat use), temporal resource use, and diet of island spotted skunks during abundance in 2003 - 2004 and compared it with similar measures during rarity in 1992.

Some species of deep sea stony corals form complex structures that provide similar — although not identical — ecosystem services as shallow tropical reefs: habitat for abundant and diverse associated fauna, commercial fish breeding grounds, and potential medicines for human use.

The broad trends of a retreat upslope and to the north are consistent with other bird species that have similar coniferous habitat requirements.

Similar to predictions for the Red - faced Warbler and Painted Redstart, Audubon's climate model projects a 90 percent loss of current summer range by 2080, with a spread north into corresponding habitat in southern Colorado.

Increasing the quantity and quality of habitat for pollinators is a major part of this effort — with actions ranging from the construction of pollinator gardens at Federal buildings to the restoration of millions of acres of Federally managed lands and similar actions on private lands.

Organisms throughout the world, regardless of habitat, suffered similar rates of extinction, suggesting that the cause of the event was a global, not local, occurrence, and that it was a sudden event, not a gradual change.

Based on projections for species with similar ranges and habitats (like Le Conte's and Baird's sparrows), the inland - nesting population of Nelson's Sparrow may have a substantial shift in appropriate climate - space.

In addition to these mid-ocean ridge studies I am also involved in the application of similar marine geophysical techniques to study sedimentary processes and characterize benthic habitats in the near shore setting.