Sentences with phrase «one's new habitat»

It was typically the organisms that settled in new habitats and were able to multiply rapidly.
Two designers show how new habitats for endangered birds can be made in the standard brick wall, using low - tech techniques.
Cats have been introduced into new habitats across the globe with terrible results.
Should we help species that are threatened by climate change find new habitats?
Its ancestors may have left the ocean for fresh water when sea - level rise opened up new habitats about 6 million years ago.
That could include projects such as building new habitat for birds and new fishing access sites for people.
This handsome species is by its very nature ready to utilize new habitat.
Researchers say climate change is likely to invite many other species into new habitats.
Fire maintains the ecological structure, the stacked life zones each in its place, and also the diversity of species, because many animals and plants benefit from the patches of new habitat created by low - intensity burning.
A comprehensive look at dozens of species, it finds that many North American and European bumble bees are failing to «track» warming by colonizing new habitats north of their historic range.
These are widely dispersed by native Jamaican bird species and it has been invading new habitats at a high rate.
The jacks would be dropped off barges to create the artificial reefs, which would not only slow the waves but would also provide new habitat for marine creatures.
LITs may also meet members of the Rindge community, visit other Mass Audubon sites, and explore new habitats.
Morito Hayashi, a spider researcher at the Natural History Museum in London, says that it had been assumed that a wet landing would be deadly for what are known as ballooning spiders — those that drift to new habitats on wind - blown silken threads that they spin to lift themselves aloft.
Now, along the continental shelf off south - central California, The Nature Conservancy is working to find out if trawlers provide such animals with new habitat.
Loners for most of their lives, thousands of these organisms will together to form a multicellular, sluglike unit to seek out and populate new habitat when resources become scarce.
Since they don't have to wait long for appropriate habitat to mature, Blue - winged Warblers are quick to take advantage of new habitat when it becomes available.
«Populations of rare songbird found in surprising new habitat
Cheung and his colleague used modeling to predict how 802 commercially important species of fish and invertebrates react to warming water temperatures, other changing ocean properties, and new habitats opening up at the poles.
It involves the specific procedures listed below (starting with finding a suitable new habitat or location) that MUST be followed without shortcuts if you want the cats to remain at the relocation site.
Last July, the group planted endangered Torreya taxifolia seedlings in new habitat patches north of their customary domain in Florida, where it is becoming too hot for the conifers to survive.
The combination of new habitat from irrigation and runoff of pesticides may be a «perfect storm» for schistosomiasis where agriculture is intensifying in the developing world, Rohr says.
The money will be used by BASC, the UK's largest shooting organisation, to create and link new habitats in Cheshire where it is hoped the mammals will thrive side by side with game shooting.
So ducks and other birds may help aquatic animals colonize new habitats over very long distances.
The key for Koblick is that archaeology could underwrite new habitats, providing a money model for bases on the seafloor.
The knowledge of how species colonize new habitats forms the basis for the preservation of refuges and targeted reintroduction and also helps prevent the spread of invasive species.
The African rift zone and mountain building in West Africa generated new habitats for the evolving frogs, Wake noted.
Like Indiana Jones, we'd encounter exotic locations, lost cities, and strange new habitats.
Perhaps the key was the ability to butcher meat with these simple tools — if hominins could eat meat, they could survive in new habitats where they didn't know which plants were toxic.
However they also found that after the rainforest collapse surviving tetrapod species began to disperse more freely across the globe, colonising new habitats further from the equator.
Asian carp are hardy, lay hundreds of thousands of eggs at a time and spread into new habitat quickly and easily.
Using these values, the computer can automatically add new habitat and rearrange the landscape in order to improve range shifting potential.»
They constructed new habitats, offered monthly financial support, and regularly cared for sick cats.
We don masks, snorkels and flippers and venture out offshore at Moken beach to where a trial reef restoration project is using old fishing cages to re-build the reef — already coral is reviving and fish life are visiting the perfect new habitat.
Just as with the project Galapagos, Damijan Kracina and Vladimir Leben have joined their imaginative tendencies and created a wholly new habitat, which this time in not related to a remote island reserve, but to a world of dark depths.
It is encouraging that some Short - eared Owls have exploited new habitats like reclaimed strip mines, but discouraging that so many have withdrawn from increasingly disturbed habitats in marshes.
As the ice melts and Arctic temperatures warm, polar bears are forced to find new habitat (usually farther south, where the humans also live in greater numbers).
The project, proposed by firm Tidal Lagoon Power, also hopes to save more than 236,000 tonnes in carbon emissions a year, protect against coastal flooding and provide new habitats for wildlife.
In February a group led by biologist Stephen G. Willis of Durham University in the U.K. reported that they had introduced two butterfly species — known as the marbled white (shown here) and the small skipper — into new habitats about 40 miles and 22 miles, respectively, from their homes.
«Can mechanisms used during hibernation help animals colonize new habitats?.»
However, new research published in the Oct. 30 edition of Bird Conservation International by Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History scientist Gary Graves reveals that populations of Swainson's warbler are increasing in a surprising new habitat found mostly on private lands — pine plantations on nearly 16 million hectares on the coastal plain from eastern Texas to southeastern Virginia.
He explains, «Like oysters, beavers, and termites, these boring clams alter the landscape and provide new habitat for other species.»
The researchers uncovered a variety of features in the cichlid genome that enabled the fishes to thrive in new habitats and ecological niches within the Great Lakes of East Africa.
They specialized to exploit new habitats, diets and ways of living that would lead to their ultimate success.
But, just as with mosquitoes, it is unclear whether changes in the climate and conditions of new habitats will be as conducive to the Lyme bacterium and other diseases as they are to ticks.
Cuomo's spokesman said he had directed the DEC to «offer assistance to the city to transport and find a new habitat for it immediately.»
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