Sentences with phrase «on habitat connectivity»

The key to keeping the species alive, says NPS biologist Jeff Sikich, hinges on habitat connectivity.

The key to keeping this species alive, here or elsewhere, hinges on habitat connectivity, he says.

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The 2002 IFOAM Basic Standards for Organic Agriculture Production and Processing67 include principles and recommendations on «organic ecosystems» where provisions are made to «maintain a significant portion of farms to facilitate biodiversity and nature conservation», including (among others) wildlife refuge habitats and wildlife corridors that provide linkages and connectivity to native habitat.

«For instance, maintaining and promoting connectivity among habitats and protecting pristine or remnant populations of habitat - forming species — such as coral and kelp — can dramatically foster recovery after extreme climatic events,» said Giulio De Leo, with Stanford University's Hopkins Marine Station, who also worked on the study.

Intensify conservation efforts in the large landscapes required for snow leopard survival by identifying and designating critical habitats of key snow leopard populations as no - go areas for destructive land uses, maintaining their integrity and connectivity through natural corridors, and strengthening their protection on the ground.

«Tiger Sharks: Banks and Borders» is a film about the connectivity between habitats and the Center for Sportfish Science and Conservation researchers» efforts to shed light on the relatively unknown movements of large marine predators.

Studies on the ecological and evolutionary processes that structure the diversity of deep - ocean benthic communities, including larval dispersal, colonization, habitat utilization, genetic connectivity, and the evolutionary relationships of invertebrate fauna.

In 2011, he joined the California State University, Long Beach Shark Lab, where his Master's degree work focused on analyzing movements of juvenile predatory fishes to assess the landscape connectivity, habitat use and effectiveness of restored estuaries.

Land managers have realized that static protected areas will not be sufficient to conserve biodiversity in a changing climate, requiring an emphasis on landscape - scale conservation, connectivity among protected habitats, and sustaining ecological functioning of working lands and waters.

«The results also highlight the lack of connectivity between different habitats on a single reef, such as shallow and deep water, which has important implications under future climate change scenarios, as coral reefs will be largely dependent on neighbouring areas for their recovery.»

In the East, where most of the land is privately owned, there's no way in the near term that we're going to have wildlife habitat network of sufficient size and connectivity only on public lands.

However, we demonstrated that there is specialisation of the coral host to particular reef environments, with each strain of coral host associating only with particular types of symbiotic algae... the results also highlight the lack of connectivity between different habitats on a single reef, such as shallow and deep water, which has important implications under future climate change scenarios, as coral reefs will be largely dependent on neighbouring areas for their recovery.