Sentences with phrase «on certain habitat»

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For example, some fish, like salmon, build their nests only in gravel of a certain size, he notes, and so, «as rivers are increasingly being restored for fish habitat, it is important to know what slopes and flow depths will preserve a particular size of gravel on the riverbed.»

But once we're on that projected path, there are certain measures that we can help species to get to certain habitats that might be more suitable for them,» she said.

Burbrink and his team hunted for patterns in the data on sick snakes — to see whether the infected species were related evolutionarily, for example, or whether they shared certain behavioral traits or habitat preferences.

The first is changes to the environment that significantly alter habitat, in effect» «altering the rules of the game,»» as Arens puts it, so that physical characteristics and behavior that once proved adaptive for certain organisms — dinosaurs, for instance, that relied on flowering plants for food — no longer work as well.

Subsequently the researchers studied whether plant species from certain habitats have spread particularly strongly on other continents.

Last year, scientists in Denmark showed that terrestrial leeches can be used similarly to sample an area's fauna, though they feast on fewer species than do carrion flies, don't travel as far in search of prey, and live in only certain habitats.

«Here, NOAA Fisheries improperly relies on habitat mitigation measures that are neither reasonably specific nor reasonably certain to occur, and in some cases not even identified,» Redden wrote in his ruling.

Just like beef, poultry and produce, seafood may be subject to certain practices that endanger the quality of the fillet that lands on your plate or of the habitat the fish shares with other species.

We show that modifications of habitat produced by grazing and by certain types of fire have strong effects on cat movement behaviour, with the general result that fire and grazing can create habitat conditions which are strongly favoured by cats.

This affects pretty much all life on Earth and unfortunately some species will be hard - pressed to handle the insult as certain habitats basically move off - planet.