Sentences with phrase «of urban habitats»

Residents» capacity to produce their community by defining the meanings of their urban habitat is one of the most crucial — and yet highly overlooked — rights to be exercised in current society.

As the third instalment in Gary Hustwit's trilogy on the impact and function of design in the modern world, Urbanized is a concise exploration of the urban habitat of the Homo sapien.

An ambitious restoration of Buffalo's abandoned Central Terminal has begun with the creation of an urban habitat classroom.

As programs mature and new ones are added, bike - sharing could become a standard feature of the urban habitat, a must - have for any forward - thinking community.

Not exact matches

The stories exposed self - dealing at the Nature Conservancy; sham deductions taken for protecting facades on urban buildings; and jaw - dropping write - offs for golf resorts, whose chemical - doused fairways and private membership seemed at odds with the goals of protecting natural habitat and providing «significant public benefit.»

In environmental policy, the Party promises stronger greenhouse gas emission regulations and enforcement in the oil - patch; a water management plan to ensure that current and future needs are balanced; a moratorium on additional resource development on lakeshores and lake beds; a Green Energy Plan to support green energy projects and move the province away from coalpower; and a land - use framework that curbs urban sprawl and safeguards farmland and habitats in the vicinity of cities.

All ages Birds of prey and their habitats are fascinating, as are the adjustments they've made to thrive in urban environments.

Richard K. Sullivan, Jr., Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees all state land conservation, said, «Since taking office, Governor (Deval) Patrick has made a historic $ 230 million investment in land conservation focused on three goals: investing in urban parks, preserving working farms and forests, and protecting large natural landscapes for habitat.

Erie County residents have a remarkable 20 + acres of natural habitat and shoreline access in an urban South Buffalo neighborhood.

The funds have been awarded to municipalities and Soil and Water Conservation districts to address major sources of water pollution and habitat degradation in dozens of urban, suburban and rural communities.

Natural habitats and ecosystems have been dramatically altered from their original states, and there is rising concern about the spread of diseases that can be passed from urban wildlife to humans.

«Sedimentation dams are urban habitats for a range of plants and animals, but it appears these dams also contain high levels of pollutants.

As New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg prepares to leave office, a commentary by a leading bioethicist analyzes his controversial public health policies and concludes that he is an urban innovator who created a new paradigm of public health, «reaching beyond infectious diseases to upstream risk factors in everyday life and the human habitat.»

It can be challenging to find a suitable habitat for bald eagles in a city, but the advantage of an urban reintroduction, he says, is that more people can enjoy the birds and be educated by their presence.

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.

Most of the invasive populations are restricted to urban and suburban habitats, which may be selecting for some key traits that increase fitness of individuals in those environments,» said co-author Elizabeth Hobson, a postdoctoral fellow at the National Institute for Mathematical and Biological Synthesis, which helped support the research.

As cities are vastly different to natural habitats, and contain many new types of food, boldness is likely to be a very useful trait for urban birds to have.

A new paper published in the Journal of Biogeography today (13 October 2014) concludes that the harlequin ladybird, an invasive alien species first recorded in the UK in 2004, has a preference for urban areas and sunnier habitats.

She says that the urban sprawl of San Diego and Los Angeles makes it difficult for the species to move to cooler habitats on its own.

«It is suffering from warmer temperatures even where the habitat is still in good shape and has trouble moving north past the urban sprawl of San Diego and Los Angeles.»

About 50 % of its habitat has been modified by human activity, and those regions are now being invaded by exotic Argentine ants, which thrive in urban and agricultural areas and are becoming a scourge in California and much of the southern United States.

It is the urban whale, because its habitat is usually within one hundred miles of the U.S. coastline and in busy shipping lanes.

Rupp came to the realization that she and the rats shared the urban habitat; it was because of human behavior that the rats were thriving.

But in the habitat of the urban whale, in the coastal areas of the Eastern Seaboard, there are many ships and less space.

We reciprocally cross-fostered urban and rural nestling great tits (Parus major L.) to study how growing up in an urban versus rural habitat affected telomere length (TL)-- a suggested biomarker of longevity.

Urban environments differ from natural habitats in many regards and are for instance associated with higher levels of anthropogenic pollution, such as traffic noise, artificial light pollution and air pollution, which enhance oxidative stress and inflammatory responses.

«An important further point to address is the use of neonicotinoid pesticides in ornamental plants grown in greenhouses, which at the moment does not seem to be addressed — urban gardens have become an ever more important habitat for wild bees.»

Together with other recent studies on the same mouse populations, the new research provides one of the first known examples of a mammal adapting to urban habitats, said Harris.

The natural place of cats in the food chain is as hunters of mice, rats, and other small rodents, who in urban habitat are themselves overwhelmingly of introduced species, and as scavengers of sick and injured birds who remain on the ground after dark, when healthy birds are roosting and cats do most of their hunting.

The advent of motor vehicles took working animals off the streets; the advent of refrigerator eliminated raising and slaughtering animals for meat, milk, and eggs in urban habitat; spay / neuter and a rapid rise in keeping dogs and cats indoors eradicated most of the dogs and cats who were formerly at large.

If we were somehow able to remove cats from the «urban and suburban habitats,» the trash, empty buildings, and other sources of food and shelter that feral cats use would still be there.

Cats are only one part, and actually a pretty small part, of the profound disruptions to the environment occasioned by people who have built «urban and suburban habitats.»

Law Offices of Babak Naficy and Babak Naficy for Plaintiffs and Respondents The Urban Wildlands Group, Endangered Habitats League, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Palos Verdes / South Bay Audubon Society, Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society, and American Bird Conservancy.

On islands and in fragmented urban and suburban habitats unnaturally high densities of cats are not only capable of reducing or eradicating populations of birds and small mammals, they can out - compete native predators like foxes and weasels.

Reconstructed dynamics of rapid extinctions of chaparral - requiring birds in urban habitat islands.

Forbush favored tracking and treeing cats with dogs before shooting them, a procedure which in the urban and suburban feral cat habitat of today would be considered both impractical and inhumane.

The Injunction The original complaint — filed by the Urban Wildlands Group, Endangered Habitats League, Los Angeles Audubon Society, Palos Verdes / South Bay Audubon Society, Santa Monica Bay Audubon Society, and the American Bird Conservancy — was brought under the California Environmental Quality Act, with the plaintiffs arguing, for instance, that TNR «can cause significant adverse environmental impacts by causing proliferation of rats and raccoons and creating water pollution problems.»

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

The gist of their findings was that cats were occupying habitat left by a declining population of street dogs, at the rate of about three cats moving in to replace each dog who could no longer make a living after refuse was mostly buried or burned, sewers were enclosed, and automobiles replaced animal - powered transport, resulting in an urban environment much less congenial to dogs.

The lakes and river provide a natural habitat for turtles, fish, muskrats and occasional family of beaver in an urban setting.

Recreational and other human disturbance, loss of habitat to urban development, introduction of beachgrass and other nonnative species, and expanding predator populations have all contributed to a decline in active nesting areas and in the size of the breeding and wintering populations.

Urban development and the stresses of habitat destruction and introduced species have pushed a number of the region's plants to the brink of extinction.

CONSERVATION VALUE This urban creation of the Inca Empire, which appears to have been naturally cut in the continuous rock escarpment, is an area of outstanding natural beauty which encompasses patches of high altitude habitats and associated wildlife.

This substantial transformation of the landscape at Laguna Gloria will improve the riparian community along the Colorado River and provide habitat to wide - ranging wildlife, contributing to the health of the urban environment in Austin.

Like the animals they encounter, migrating through rural, suburban, and urban areas, the Tush Hogs remain in a state of constant adaptation as they search for a more hospitable habitat.

Whether these be the idyllic landscapes of his childhood memories, before rampant urbanization began its sprawl outwards from the city centers of India, or more current scenes of environmental degradation and urban decay, the balance (or imbalance) between humanity and its habitats has remained the primary focus of his work.

Along the way, expect to see a surprising variety of trees, wildflowers, insects, birds and other animals that have successfully adapted to their urban habitats.

the chart fails to show that soy from brazil, the stuff served in that meatless urban restraunt menu, has many times the embodied energy of eating local grass fed beef, that the corn suggested as least energy consuming is only so due to vast scales of industrial monocroping that wipes out diversity and local edible foods habitat (and is used largely for pig and cow fodder if not biofuels, and so lays waste to half the midwest), that milk from a pastured cow or goat, or eggs from pastured chickens, are gaining thier energy from sources no human could eat.

I meet urban farmers who teach women from a homeless shelter and inner - city kids to grow healthy food on remediated vacant lots; advocates for sustainable transportation who tirelessly attend hearings and planning meetings; members of community land trusts that provide affordable housing; and conservation land trusts that preserve ecosystems and habitats acre by acre, stream by stream.

Led by local landscaper and ecologist Dave Majewski and designed by Matthew Dore, a «sustainably developed and managed native urban habitat environment» has been created on the grounds of the Central Terminal.