Sentences with phrase «on oceanic islands»

As I've pointed out repeatedly, the claims linking predation by cats to declining bird numbers are largely (other than on oceanic islands) unsupported by the evidence.

«Any bird populations on the continents that could not withstand these levels of predation from cats and other predators would have disappeared long ago, but populations of birds on oceanic islands have evolved in circumstances in which predation from mammalian predators was negligible and they, and other island vertebrates, are therefore particularly vulnerable to predation when cats have been introduced.»

Not exact matches

The relatively low - density continental crust of the North Island, which sits on the Australian plate, is forcing the dense oceanic crust on the Pacific plate beneath it in a process called subduction.

Extensive studies by the authors over the past decades on these islands have documented stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and geomorphic evidence of major oceanic and climatic disruptions at the close of the last interglacial.

I had just started my Ph.D. studying invasive species on a remote oceanic island, where I would be spending most of the next 3 years bashing through rainforest to count invertebrates.

There is precedent for oceanic dispersal of Moggridgea: the spiders are also found on the Comoros, volcanic islands 340 kilometers from mainland Africa.

Land - use practices on tropical oceanic islands can have large impacts on reef ecosystems, even in the absence of rivers and streams.

But in recent decades, up to 95 per cent of male oceanic crickets (Teleogryllus oceanicus) on the Hawaiian islands of Kauai and Oahu have evolved flat wings, leaving them mute.

Plastic debris pollutes oceanic habitats from pole to pole: it is found in the open ocean, on shorelines of even the most remote islands and in the deep sea.

The prolific range of marine life found in these waters results from the convergence of five major oceanic currents that converge on the lonely cluster of islands on the equator.

Range The peregrine is found on all continents except Antarctica and on many oceanic islands.

Established as a national park in 1981, Surin Islands are an archipelago of five islands in Phang Nga Province 55 km off the coast at Andaman Sea on the oceanic border ofIslands are an archipelago of five islands in Phang Nga Province 55 km off the coast at Andaman Sea on the oceanic border ofislands in Phang Nga Province 55 km off the coast at Andaman Sea on the oceanic border of Burma.

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Signed by Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla Miranda in an Executive Decree on Thursday March 3, the declaration formalizes the creation of the new marine protected area surrounding Cocos Island National Park to improve the conservation of this unique oceanic island, conserve an entire marine ecosystem, and protect a group of seamounts (underwater mountains) southwest of Cocos IIsland National Park to improve the conservation of this unique oceanic island, conserve an entire marine ecosystem, and protect a group of seamounts (underwater mountains) southwest of Cocos Iisland, conserve an entire marine ecosystem, and protect a group of seamounts (underwater mountains) southwest of Cocos IslandIsland.