Sentences with phrase «of suitable habitat»

«Ice - free areas make for small patches of suitable habitat for plants and animals — like islands in a sea of ice,» she said.

However, the amount of suitable habitat, for instance areas with clear water, is limited.

These high - elevation areas provide islands of suitable habitat that many species depend on for survival.

Of interest is the possibility that this diminutive but powerful flier may be able to infiltrate new areas of suitable habitat in Greenland and Russia.

For other species, such as the large hornbills that nest in hollow trees, the lack of suitable habitat in the surrounding landscape will have also contributed to the population decline.

Pesticides and a lack of suitable habitats are quickly killing off these important little workers in our environment.

Based on a survey of how dams store water, the Lands Council in Washington State predicts that reintroducing beavers to 10,000 miles of suitable habitat in the state could help retain more than 650 trillion gallons of spring runoff, which would slowly be released by the animals» naturally leaky dams.

Dams naturally alter the flow of streams, providing fish with a variety of suitable habitats.

On average 38 percent of suitable habitat has already been lost to agriculture in this region, where some of the highest human population densities occur in Africa.

And this mingling isn't accidental, Gibson argues, noting that the two species are not simply forced together by limitation of suitable habitat.

Stewart is currently working with UC Santa Cruz biologist Barry Sinervo to study the effects of climate change on the blunt - nosed leopard lizard, which also faces major losses of suitable habitat.

But the majority of lemur species — sixty percent — could lose considerable amounts of suitable habitat before the end of the century due to climate change alone.

Moreover, the fish are unable to migrate in search of suitable habitat.

«As human populations grow, patches of suitable habitat for many species are becoming increasingly isolated from each other,» said Shapiro.

Over the past 200 years, coyotes have dramatically expanded their range into eastern North America, probably as a result of the eradication of competing gray wolves and creation of suitable habitat for both coyotes and white - tailed deer by agriculture and rural landscape changes (Gompper 2002).

In Surviving Mars, players will lead a colonization effort on the surface of Mars, from the very first rovers and supply drops to the construction of suitable habitats for brave settlers from Earth.

Temperatures can influence mosquito development rates, mortality and behavior, and rainfall patterns affect the availability of suitable habitat.

While approximately 1.5 million square kilometers of suitable habitat still remain in Asia -LRB-[9], Figure 1), tigers today are distributed heterogeneously [7], [13] and, except in the Russian Far East, are now restricted to small pockets, mostly in protected areas.

This highly inaccessible island outcrop has very few areas of suitable habitat for the remaining population of stick insects.

Additionally, said Dugger, «The amount of suitable habitat required by spotted owls for nesting and roosting is important because spotted owl survival, colonization of empty territories, and number of young produced tends to be higher in areas with larger amounts of suitable habitat, at least on some study areas.»

Under scenario RCP2.6, in the middle of the century, areas of suitable habitat are predicted to slightly increase for the temperate WRs and conversely contract for tropical WRs.