Later, we learned about their population numbers [and] preferred habitats.
And if warming Arctic temperatures increase the area of snow algae's
preferred habitat of just - below - freezing snow, the microbes might expand their range further.
A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Idaho State University and the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that habitat fragmentation and the addition of makeshift perches such as transmission polls in sagebrush ecosystems are creating
preferred habitat for common ravens that threaten sensitive native bird species, including greater sage grouse.
Approximately 50 years ago this species started to colonize Öland, an island in the Baltic Sea, and has since then expelled members of a closely related species — the pied flycatcher —
from preferred habitats through competition over nest sites and hybridization i.e. mixed breeding between species.
Analyzing the spatial patterns of the sightings, they found that Whooping
Cranes prefer habitat that includes a mix of croplands and wetlands and are more attracted by a single large wetland basin than multiple smaller basins.
The mangrove tours often provide an opportunity for the visitors to fish for specific varieties of fish that often find their
most preferred habitat to be around the mangrove roots.
There just may not be anywhere left for the Dunlin's
preferred habitat of wet coastal grasslands along the shores of the Arctic Ocean.
The decrease in juvenile earthworms in the conventional plots can be explained by the fact that upper soil layers are
their preferred habitat.
But a prairie plant in the Midwest, where many miles of land have a similar temperature, might have to travel much farther to remain in
its preferred habitat.
While dense jungle is
its preferred habitat, the jaguar will range across a variety of forested and open terrain.
Researchers from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science wanted to know the impact of severe storms on fish populations that have to make sudden and unexpected trips downstream, away from
their preferred habitat, to more hospitable waters.
Here, the scientists analysed data collected over a span of 13 years and identified the characteristics describing
the preferred habitat of the rhinos.
«Navigation towards large stationary objects — here the reef — that were
preferred habitats.»
«The key is to take a best practices - based approach to gathering and comparing data about past invaders, their traits and
preferred habitats.»
«The Sichuan bush warbler is exceedingly secretive and difficult to spot as
its preferred habitat is dense brush and tea plantations,» said Rasmussen, who has helped document and scientifically describe 10 new species of birds.
In doing so, we could demonstrate that this species of dinosaur was able to blend in particularly well in areas with closed forests,» explains Mayr, and he summarizes, «We therefore assume that this was also
the preferred habitat of Psittacosaurus.»
Ocean acidification alters behavioural responses to physical and chemical cues in marine animals, including the maladaptive deterrence of settlement - stage larval fish to odours of
preferred habitat and attraction to odours of non-preferred habitat.
But the empty expanses are also valuable scientific discoveries in their own right, providing key data about seals» habits and
preferred habitat.
More open secondary roads and highways are
its preferred habitat, where it can cover distance quickly and smoothly, just like an executive jet.
No preferred habitat The team looks to diversify holdings across three distinct, yet complementary, types of earnings growth to participate in different market cycles.
Two notes before I close: first, industries tend to have
preferred habitats.
But when he begins to become
the preferred habitat for reinsurance, he makes BRK more volatile with respect to legal judgments.
The preferred habitat theory?
Its preferred habitat is humid pine - oak forests up to an elevation of about 6,000 feet.
The honeycreeper is a family of birds that are all closely related but have evolved into different species according to
their preferred habitat and diet.
Its preferred habitat is complex layer vegetation with a high density of woody, perennially fruiting shrubs.
The remote nature of the park makes
it the preferred habitat of countless species.
The Chernobyl «Dead Zone» is
a preferred habitat because of the low human population, so animals which can migrate long distances do tend to migrate into it.
Basically we have gone from an Arctic Ocean covered mostly by older, thicker sea ice [white area on video here], to an Arctic Ocean that has very little of
this preferred habitat for the polar bears.
In contrast, RED would be more effective in terms of its conservation impact if payments were extended to all remaining carbon - rich tropical forests, including lowland peat swamp forests,
the preferred habitat for dense populations of orangutans, and if the construction of new roads was halted.
Thankfully, the Canada Warbler breeds in scrubby, second - growth areas, so it may not take long for
its preferred habitat to generate in an expanding (by 34 percent) climate space - if the birds are around to find it.
Our results do suggest that bears that use the nearshore area are more likely to occur on land in recent years because
their preferred habitat, sea ice, is unavailable.
Meanwhile, the Central Valley could become
the preferred habitat for plants of the Sonoran Desert.
The conclusion, that the loss of sea ice — the polar bear's natural and
preferred habitat — forces them onto dry land and closer to human habitation, seems obvious.
To accomplish that, you have a number of steps you can implement including recognizing, avoiding, and even removing
their preferred habitats: