Our high - quality hardwood floors are naturally beautiful with trend - forward surface textures in a range
of species including oak, maple and hickory.
The lower Chesapeake Bay is especially at risk due to high rates of sinking land (known as subsidence).96 Climate change and sea level rise are also likely to cause a number of ecological impacts, including declining water quality and clarity, increases in harmful algae and low oxygen (hypoxia) events, decreases in a number
of species including eelgrass and seagrass beds, and changing interactions among trophic levels (positions in the food chain) leading to an increase in subtropical fish and shellfish species in the bay.66
Encompassing 26,000 acres of pristine cloudforest, the Monteverde Reserve is home to a diverse range
of species including the resplendent quetzal, howler monkeys and sloths, alongside some 2,500 different plant species.
These currents attract a wide variety
of species including migrating mammals and pelagic species.
Day 5 Full - day safari in the Kruger, one of the world's largest and best managed game reserves with an abundance
of species including elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard, zebra, cheetah and hippo.
Isla Mujeres National Marine Park offers shallow reefs with exciting dive sites, prised for the abundant sealitfe is the reef Manchones witch holds a large number
of species including turtles, angel fish, lobsters, sting rays between others.
This rare habitat, comprised of a fresh water stream, coastal lagoon / wetland, and riparian woodland, provided respite from the long dry summers for a diverse array
of species including the island fox.
Visitors experience an underwater world populated by a rich diversity
of species including Read More
Johanna grew up in Sweden training horses, birds, and rabbits; her past has included lifelong learning with dogs and variety
of species including dolphins, chimpanzees and cats.
Position Summary: The Mixed Practice Veterinarian will provide quality medical care for a variety
of species including large and small animals.
Dr. Cannon has worked with a diverse range
of species including dogs, cats, rats, mice, pigeons, gerbils, and parakeets.
Dr. Kristie Plunkett also enjoys treating a wide array
of species including: guinea pigs, gerbils, hamsters, mice, rats, rabbits, ferrets, chinchillas, sugar gliders, turtles, snakes, lizards and domestic / wild birds.
In one of the largest hoarding situations the ARL has responded to in recent years, a wide range
of species including dogs, cats, birds, and reptiles lived in unsanitary conditions, stacked in cages and crates in different areas of the home.
It is transmitted only through mosquitoes to a variety
of species including dogs, cats, ferrets, wolves, foxes, ferrets, sea lions, and in rare instances, humans.
Now, in a Herculean attempt to preserve this African paradise, a vast array
of species including elephants, buffalo, and zebra are being relocated to the park.
Bird species have shown a terrific response to the environmental watering, with dozens
of species including ducks and wedge - tailed eagles coming to inhabit the site.
Findings in the new report warn that more than 40 percent
of the species included in the study show «high vulnerability» to climate change.
He was interested in how the plots would fare depending on the combination
of species included.
More than a quarter
of the species included in the study are unique to the region, and some of them are struggling.
Other aspects of global warming's broad footprint on the world's ecosystems include changes in the abundance of more than 80 percent of the thousands
of species included in population studies; major poleward shifts in living ranges as warm regions become hot, and cold regions become warmer; major increases (in the south) and decreases (in the north) of the abundance of plankton, which forms the critical base of the ocean's food chain; the transformation of previously innocuous insect species like the Aspen leaf miner into pests that have damaged millions of acres of forest; and an increase in the range and abundance of human pathogens like the cholera - causing bacteria Vibrio, the mosquito - borne dengue virus, and the ticks that carry Lyme disease - causing bacteria.
More importantly, judging from the pictures it looks as though many
of the species included on the rooftop are native prairie grasses.
Not exact matches
Some notable Diveboard features
include: access to an impressive database
of more than 2 million
species of sea life, a database
of nearly 50,000 diving spots throughout the world and integration with Twitter, Flickr and Facebook's sharing features.
Lang and Stackpole have heard about ROV units being used by a wide range
of people,
including aquaculturists, conservationists looking for invasive
species, teachers, engineers who need to inspect pipes and, yes, even marine scientists.
Sept. 26, 2012: A coalition
of conservation groups files suit in Federal Court to force Ottawa to protect endangered and threatened
species along the route
of the proposed pipeline,
including Pacific humpback whales.
There are other aspects
of the NGP Report that merit further discussion,
including its approach to adaptive management (we now have three different JRP reports in as many years that take different views on the extent to which AM can be relied upon in making a determination as to the likelihood
of significant adverse environmental effects under CEAA), the precautionary principle,
species at risk and Aboriginal consultation.
«We have also experienced success in several new markets,
including celebrating our first shipment
of live lobster to the up - and - coming Brazilian market; expanding our value - added product reach to Australia; rolling - out a line
of retail products targeting the emerging middle - class in China; and introducing Propeller Clams, a new clam
species, to the sushi - hungry Asian market.»
There are a number
of conditions for pasture land purchases
including each pasture must be maintained in each block, sales will be based on market value, native prairie lands will be subject to no - break / no - drain conservation easements and federal
Species at Risk Act will be enforced.
Evolution —
including what Mr Ham would call «micro-evolution» resulting in variations within a
species (like the degrees
of melanin concentration in the human
species) takes longer than a couple
of thousand years in a complex organism.
They
include structural differences in the skeleton, the muscles, the skin, and the brain; differences in posture as - 0sociated with a unique method
of locomotion; differences in social or - ganization; and finally the acquisition
of speech and tool - using, together with the dramatic increase in intellectual ability which has led scientists to name their own
species Ho - m - o sapiens sapiens — wise wise man.
The fossil record which shows millions
of years
of stable
species, then an explosion
of necessarily mutations, all occurring at the precise necessary time required for complex organisms to develop, and ALL escaping fossilization «the sudden appearance
of most
species in the geologic record and the lack
of evidence
of substantial gradual change in most
species — from their initial appearance until their extinction — has long been noted,
including by Charles Darwin who appealed to the imperfection
of the record as the favored explanation» — Wikipedia
You say the Bible is full
of fairy tales and fables, yet you believe all life forms
including plants, trees, insects, birds, fish, reptiles and mammals evolved from one
species into another — As if evolution isn't the biggest fairytale
of them all.
I don't have to use my imagination to know that we have endless evidence showing the evolution
of many types
of species,
including humans.
A bit
of «back
of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada
of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands
of people — and this is without
including the World's 300,000 current
species of plants, none
of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark..
While «down» here, the «son» never once demonstrates that he has the slightest idea
of anything not already known in the Iron Age Middle East,
including about 99 %
of this favored
species.
People who argue for a literal interpretation
of Genesis bring them together because their version
of the creation
of the Universe
includes the creation
of species.
All the genes
of a
species put together constitute its genome, and the human genome
includes perhaps 100,000 genes found in 3 billion base pairs.
This Custom
of gathering together to sleep and rest at night (roosting in English) is practiced by a few animals,
including white herons, mammals, and some
species of butterflies.
His books
include: Born to be Free: Trafficking in Endangered
Species in Costa Rica and Ecuadore The Gift
of the Poor to the Rich: Nonviolent Struggle in Latin America; Will the Swallows Return.
if its the human
species... we are but a single branch
of primates in the great ape family... Like gorillas and orangutans — we are the product
of an evolutionary chain that
included compet itors like Cro magnon, and Neanderthal — just like any other animal
species.
The growth we do want, or at least the growth we should want, is in getting more good living and strong community with less use
of resources
including sinks, and while allowing more space for the other
species with which we share this planet.
You say the Bible is full
of fairytales and fables, yet you believe all life forms
including plants, trees, insects, birds, fish, reptiles and mammals evolved from one
species into another — As if evolution isn't the biggest fairytale
of them all.
The speciation events are independent
of each other (as is extinction)-- there is no doubling, because the evolution
of one
species is independent
of all others
including ancestor
species.
It is true that a variety
of widely accepted norms,
including the keeping
of certain promises, the abhorrence
of unjustified killing
of human beings, and perhaps even the sanctity
of property rights, promote the adaption
of the human
species to its environment.
The latter are not susceptible to cataloguing as mathematical Platonic forms; hence, despite Whitehead's explicit remarks that the Primordial Nature
includes all eternal objects (PR 134; cf. 70), the Primordial Nature is identified with the eternal objects
of the objective
species.
A bit
of «back
of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada
of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands
of people — and this is without
including the World's 300,000 current
species of plants, none
of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000
species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!
It's because, if we didn't have the «Good Samaritan» genes already built in, it would be harder for us as a
species to build cooperative societies that serve the well - being
of everyone, ourselves
included.
Other living organisms indicating the Earth is far more than a few thousands
of years old
include Posidonia oceanica, a
species of seagrass found in the Mediterranean Sea.
Endangered
species in any form to
include their eggs, embryos are protected by the force
of law.
For in such an analysis, what is disclosed is that we are in truth a certain direction or routing
of events which, because
of a persisting memory
of what has occurred along it, and because there has emerged (at some point in the evolutionary development so far as our own
species is concerned) an awareness which
includes both consciousness and self - consciousness, may meaningfully be given a specific identity.
And this is what he does here, very well, proceeding by discrete steps: the observable plasticity
of plant and animal
species, the verifiability
of macro-evolution, the geological record
of the earth's age, the fossil evidence (
including the wealth
of fossil remains
of intermediate special forms), observable and experimental mutation, morphology, genetics, and so forth.