Sentences with phrase «on forest habitat»

By using river - salvaged woods, once lost or cast - off during wasteful lumber harvests, we reduce impacts on forest habitat and prevent the woods from biodegrading and thus adding carbon to the atmosphere.

«But we don't have to wait until these changes wreak havoc on our forest habitats.

Not exact matches

The Plan merely calls on forestry companies operating in caribou ranges to prepare spatial harvest sequences within their Forest Management Plans to meet caribou habitat requirements, and states that Alberta Forestry may impose additional terms and conditions into harvesting plans and operating ground rules (at pp 49 - 52).

in the context of the present government policy of high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality, fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.

That's because valuable forests are often destroyed to plant palm oil plantations, destroying the habitats of countless species while also threatening the well being and livelihoods of communities that depend on the forest and contributing to climate change.

Based on a plan drawn up free of charge by a Seattle architecture firm, the new zoo maintains the intimacy of the old zoo — a rustic place with dusty paths, teetering structures and the occasional mango tree in bloom — while enabling people to see animals in their natural habitats: paca in river forest, pumas in pineland, jaguarundi at the forest edge.

The wood is responsibly found and sourced so that there will be no impact on animal's natural habitat in forests.

Jeff is a Field Ornithologist at Mass Audubon, where he focuses on working landscapes and the habitat management of forest birds, including the coordination of Mass Audubon's Foresters for the Birds program.

Jeff is a Field Ornithologist at Mass Audubon, where he focuses on working landscapes and the habitat management of forest birds.

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.

Mass Audubon successfully conserves additional land all the time — from stands of old growth forest in the Berkshires to coastal habitats on the Cape and islands to the precious salt marsh of the North Shore — and every type of habitat in between.

In the curving gallery's big floor - to - ceiling habitats you can see animals that live in the river, on the floodplain forest floor and even up in the canopy — together — in a portrayal of the most diverse and complex freshwater ecosystem in the world.

Furthermore, B. nipponica adults have intrinsic traits that may facilitate their actions as dispersal agents for this mycoheterotrophic herb: (1) their abundance in the plant habitat; (2) they are ground - dwelling, which means they defecate on the forest floor where M. humile's fungal partners, Russulaceae, reside; and (3) the long transit times of seeds through their gut (3 - 10 h) providing occasional long - distance seed dispersal.

If we can conserve that forest or wetlands or grasslands that are being lost and emitting CO2 into the atmosphere, we are also conserving habitat for the wildlife of the Earth; so Congo basin, Amazon rainforest, the wetlands of Southeast Asia, the peat forests of Southeast Asia and on and on — and also the Alaskan frontier.

«If future studies continue to not find strong longer - term salvage harvest effects on forest understory vegetation,» Knapp said, «the debates about pros and cons of post-fire management could then narrow to topics such as snag habitat and woody fuel levels that are unequivocally impacted by salvage harvest.»

Over the weekend a report was issued on the rights of indigenous people to their forest habitat and so forth.

Left to right: USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service District Conservationist Brad Michael and Emily Heggenstaller, a golden - winged warbler biologist, meet with private landowners Mike and Laura Jackson to discuss young forest habitat management on their property.

Carolina Soto Navarro, one of the EDGE scientists on the expedition, says the goal is to «find out how the different bat species in this forest partition their use of the habitat, and exactly how far they go from Cueva la Barca».

All those hotels and shops built within the protected areas for the tourists are cutting down on actual forest habitat for the endangered big cats.

Because the owls» biggest problem used to be destruction of their old - growth forest habitat, conservation efforts have focused on protection against logging.

The report also includes a pilot study on habitat suitability of forest tree species.

The diversity of microbes on the skin of frog species in Brazil's Atlantic Forest can vary with habitat.

The diversity of microbes on the skin of frog species in Brazil's Atlantic Forest can vary with habitat, according to a study published July 5, 2017 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Ananda Brito de Assis from University of São Paulo, Brazil, and colleagues.

He says farmers trying to hide forbidden crops often go deep into forests, including national parks, fragmenting the habitats that threatened species depend on.

On a per - unit - area basis, the cannabis grows resulted in 1.5 times more forest loss and 2.5 times greater fragmentation of the landscape, breaking up large, contiguous forest into smaller patches and reducing wildlife habitat.

(Reuters)- Conservation groups on Friday hailed a court decision that blocks Montana from building roads and logging in nearly 37,000 acres of a state forest that serves as core habitat for protected grizzly bears.

One of the management activities that the park is really focusing on is especially on these woodlands, of restoring the forest floor and make sure that leaves remain, not raking them up and when branches fall, letting them remain in place so that they could decompose, this again because it's going to restore the whole forest system and also it's good foraging habitat for all these wild birds we are seeing here, kicking through the underbrush and kicking through the leaves looking for worms and other insects and other invertebrates.

Your article on the study of habitat fragmentation in Borneo carried out in co-operation with loggers states that 75,000 hectares of primary forest in Sabah is being cleared to develop oil - palm plantations (22 October, p 7).

The research, published in Forest Ecology and Management, adds to understanding of the southern pine beetle and confirms previous research from the beetle's southern habitat on the importance of characteristics that increase forest susceptibility to theForest Ecology and Management, adds to understanding of the southern pine beetle and confirms previous research from the beetle's southern habitat on the importance of characteristics that increase forest susceptibility to theforest susceptibility to the pest.

The otter is a «keystone predator» whose presence has an outsized effect on its kelp forest habitat.

However, while the absence of large predators may make it safer to walk on the forest floor, a more pressing influence is the rapid and unprecedented loss of Borneo's orangutan habitat.

More than half the species for oceans and tropical forests are on a special watch list because of small and declining populations, limited ranges and severe threats to their habitats.

«Our combination of field and airborne data on orangutans and their habitat was key to understanding how they move through and use disturbed forests in Borneo,» said first author Davies, a postdoc at Carnegie's Department of Global Ecology.

The moist skin of the amphibians limits them to habitats either near water or under some protection on moist ground, usually in a forest.

On landscapes with both open and closed habitat structure, they may use a combined strategy of hiding in forest cover to lower predator encounter rates and seeking open terrain, such as grasslands, where predation risk may be reduced.

Martín Ramírez, from the Argentinian Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study, commented on the habitat specificity of this species, «confined to the oldest and extensively hollow myrtle beech trees in the humid forests in the western part of the Great Otway National Park, or in mountain ash trees, upon which the myrtle trees depend,» thus making an important case for the conservation of such habitats.

The results, published in Ecology Letters, not only offer hope to farmers battling the beetle, but also provide an incentive to protect wildlife habitat: the more forest grew on and near a coffee farm, the more birds the farm had, and the lower its infestation rates were.

The paper, «The effects of habitat, climate and barred owls on long - term demography of northern spotted owls,» was published in The Condor: Ornithological Applications and authored by Katie M. Dugger, USGS, Oregon Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, Oregon State University Department of Fisheries and Wildlife; Eric D. Forsman, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station; Alan B. Franklin, USDA APHIS National Wildlife Research Center; Raymond Davis, USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Region, and 33 others.

Another Asia - based firm, Olam International, is developing a 250,000 - acre plantation on about 741,000 acres of land with the government of Gabon that Earthsight claims is on high - value forest that includes great ape habitat.

The winners are those that seek out the forest edge while the losers are those that rely on the forest core and whose habitat is being constantly squeezed.

For instance, the habitat at Hadar and Laetoli was a mixture of forest, closed woodland and grassland around the Rift lakes, with forest on the nearby mountains.

Carolina Soto Navarro, one of the scientists on this Zoological Society of London expedition, says the goal is to find out how the different bat species in this forest partition their use of the habitat, and exactly how far they go from la Barca.

It's one of the largest intact forest ecosystems left on Earth; it's actually only three or four places that have these large unfragmented habitats left and because of that it holds some of the largest populations of mammals and birds — some of the largest populations of wolves, for example, in, caribou as well as, we estimate one to three billion birds that nest there every year and that's some of the birds that are actually stopping off at Central Park.

But researchers found that the microorganism's cells are similar to microbes that live in a less demanding habitat on land: the soils in forests.

«Understanding the complexity of toad breeding habitat is critical to the conservation of the species,» said Stephanie Barnes, an aquatic biologist on the Sierra National Forest, where 10 of the research meadows were located.

To better understand the interacting effects of habitat degradation and climate on bird populations, researchers from the U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station (PSW), Klamath Bird Observatory, and Costa Rica Bird Observatories spent 12 years studying the White - collared Manakin, a fruit - eating tropical bird, in mature and young forests along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica.

The researchers focused on streams draining seven national forests in the southern Appalachian region, first mapping out how much of the area's current habitat is suitable for acid - and heat - sensitive aquatic species such as the native brook trout.

«Our results indicate that the large primates only lived in the forest and obtained their food from this habitat,» explains Bocherens, and he adds, «Gigantopithecus was an exclusive vegetarian, but it did not specialize on bamboo.»

However, the question the researchers asked was this: Should conservation efforts be focused on areas where forest habitats have already been lost and species might be reaching a threshold, or on forests that are largely intact and are only just beginning to be affected by development?

«Once we understood the trends in frozen ground, we realized how pulling out that issue tugged on economics, livelihoods, forest ecology, wildlife habitat and policy.»