Sentences with phrase «other natural habitats»

Coastline, beaches, and other natural habitats were soaked in oil (as well as bombarded by chemical dispersants), and the efforts that will inevitably be necessary to attempt to restore them will be expensive indeed.
No word on what other natural habitats will be shown in it, but Porgrave is set to be fully released in late 2015, and you can find out more over at Sandro Bocci's website.
Together, these changes in energy and land use result in a roughly 90 % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, with the remaining 10 % offset by the third use of our land — capturing carbon in trees and other natural habitats.
Urbanization is an important factor because it changes the species composition in an area, favoring the types of mosquitoes that live near and feed on people, such as Aedes aegypti, and causing other species to decline, such as those adapted to wetlands and other natural habitats.

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«By observing someone in their natural habitat we can determine how often they get interrupted when they are trying to do taxes, payroll, or perform some other task,» Williams says.
The current fragmentation of global financial markets may be likened to habitat fragmentation in the natural world, in which large, continuous biological habitats are divided into a greater number of smaller eco-systems, isolated from each other by a matrix of dissimilar habitats, leading inexorably to broad ecosystem decay.
Furthermore, at the same time that we undermine our own future, we are threatening or destroying the habitats of other species at rates unparalleled in natural history.
He was speaking philosophically about the plight of man; that while birds have nests and other animals have their natural habitats, there is no natural place for the children of man to rest their heads.
An avocado orchard uses twice as much water as a regular forest, and much of that water is diverted from the natural habitat where other plants and animals can use it.
In other cases — where tradeoffs between shade cover and productivity are too severe — farms may choose to provide tree cover or natural habitat in other ways.
Organic coffee is very difficult to grow without the presence of shade trees to provide habitat for beneficial insects, birds, and other organisms; to provide natural mulch; to aid in nutrient cycling; and to help in weed suppression.
Off - shore mining from natural shoals is known to reduce habitat for sea ducks and other animals.
Effects on one part of an ecosystem affect other parts over time, and climate change is already altering many natural habitats vital to New England.
Some examples include restoring funding for the Natural Heritage & Endangered Species Program, restoration of streams and habitat, and successful passage of the 2002, 2009, and 2014 Environmental Bonds, which provide funding for state land protection and other environmental programs.
The competition encourages participants to reveal the Commonwealth's natural wonders, large and small: birds and other animals in their habitats, lush forests and fields, and people enjoying the outdoors.
Other noteworthy aspects of the site: a supporter list, clear email signup form on the front page (if possible, better to have it on every page), a list of upcoming events, and even a brief tour of Zimon yard signs in their natural habitat.
Naming Long Island Sound and the Peconic Estuary as one of eight national critical designation areas would help fund agricultural conservation efforts, habitat restoration efforts and the sustainable use of soil, water and other natural resources, according to Mr. Bellone's office.
The researchers say that although the study focused on a habitat in Puget Sound, the results provide an important framework to evaluate other seagrass and estuarine habitats that tend to have lower inherent buffering capacity and large natural variations in chemistry.
Because grasshoppers often share habitats with a number of other grasshopper species, natural selection has driven each to stand out from the others when calling.
A recent report by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and Montana Trout Unlimited (MTU) found that global warming is shrinking cold - water fish habitat, threatening the trout and other fish that depend upon it.
Our best hope is therefore to encourage the trends towards rising prosperity and demographic transition in developing countries, in order to allow their forests and other important natural habitats to survive and regrow.
Natural landscapes filter water, produce oxygen, sequester carbon, and provide vital habitat for other species.
«Other provisions within the Energy Policy Modernization Act of 2015 would push for greater energy efficiency, updates to the energy grid, and a grid storage program; ease the permitting of natural gas pipelines; and permanently reauthorize the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which provides money for habitat protection.
To make matters worse, intact habitat has been shrinking as farming and other human activities have fragmented forests and other natural areas.
To establish whether these frogs actually use sound for communicate with each other, the scientists set up loudspeakers in their natural habitat and broadcast pre-recorded frog songs.
«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»
In every region, with the exception of a number of positive examples where lessons can be learned, biodiversity and nature's capacity to contribute to people are being degraded, reduced and lost due to a number of common pressures — habitat stress; overexploitation and unsustainable use of natural resources; air, land and water pollution; increasing numbers and impact of invasive alien species and climate change, among others.
Causeways and other roads that bisect wetlands alter natural habitats by providing avenues by which invasive plants species can colonize wetlands and nesting areas, altering natural hydrology of wetland systems, altering storm water runoff and drainage, providing avenues for road salts and pollutants and the direct loss of habitat due to land - clearing and paving.
Small changes in an organism's metabolic performance can have major consequences for its success in its natural habitat, where it is in competition with other species and faces losses from predation or viral infection.
The lab results suggest that one group of spiders could reward mimicry whereas the other penalizes it, but it's not yet clear how important those particular spiders are to the mimics in their natural habitat — especially compared with other predators such as birds.
On the other hand, dam decommissioning converts reservoirs back to fast - flowing rivers, restoring river species to their natural habitats over the long run.
«Banning commercial logging in natural forests, establishing nature reserves and helping residents in the reserve change behaviors that damaged habitat has been beneficial,» said Liu, who published Pandas and People (Oxford University Press) last year with four other authors of the new study.
The IOM recommended that chimp research satisfy three principles: the knowledge gained would be necessary to advance the public's health; there was no other research model available to obtain that information; and that the animals would be kept in their natural habitat or in environments that closely mimic it.
To establish whether these frogs actually use sound to communicate with each other, the scientists set up loudspeakers in their natural habitat and broadcast pre-recorded frog songs.
What's more surprising is that the insects are able to handle brass, stainless steel, and other materials that they usually do not encounter in their natural habitat.
To spread the risk of losing one habitat type in a bleaching event or other natural disaster, managers should protect multiple examples (replicates) of the full range of marine habitat types, and spread them out to minimize the chance that they will all be wiped out by the same disturbance.
For example, are flour beetles a model system for other insects, when their natural habitat is the same as the way they live in the lab?
What may appear unusual for a wildlife biologist is only natural for Charu: «The people who share the habitat of snow leopards and other endangered species can be a threat to these animals, but they are also our most important partners in protecting them», he explains.
The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.
Well - controlled laboratory as well as large - scale field experiments were conducted with keystone species and natural communities in a wide range of habitats in the North and Baltic Sea, the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, and off Papua New Guinea, among other places.
Dance; 18 19 Year Old; Denmark sex tube Plumper; White; German hd Hardcore; Uncut But despite growing numbers, the bear's natural habitat is «shrinking and becoming more fragmented» due to roads and other infrastructure, warns new
Still, there is no denying that the film's directors, African Cats duo Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey, and their crew have secured magnificent footage of these and other bears in their natural habitats.
The Kragga Kamma Game Park near Port Elizabeth allows your family to see wild animals in their natural habitat, including white rhino, cheetah, buffalo, giraffe, and other animals all roaming freely.
The natural place of cats in the food chain is as hunters of mice, rats, and other small rodents, who in urban habitat are themselves overwhelmingly of introduced species, and as scavengers of sick and injured birds who remain on the ground after dark, when healthy birds are roosting and cats do most of their hunting.
While a successful captive breeding and release program has yet to be developed for any parrot species, we do support scientifically - based, bona fide parrot conservation programs undertaken by teams of experts in population genetics, ecology, animal behavior, habitat conservation and restoration, natural resource management, economics, politics, sociology, and all of the other fields that must be considered if such a program is to succeed.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service reports that humans have overtaken vast areas of natural habitat, forcing out the nesting songbirds and other forms of wildlife on the endangered species lists.
Nevertheless, like other tropical birds, this macaw has seen its natural habitat badly depleted, and many are still captured for the black market parrot trade.
Here we see that the conclusion is «The influx of subsidized cats to natural habitats, combined with their high vagility and low trappability, makes TNR an unlikely solution for controlling feral cats on a large, rugged island like Catalina and, more generally, in other locations where human populations abut ecologically sensitive areas.»
Surveys of Snowy Plovers, school visits to the Ballona Wetlands, habitat restoration in the Baldwin Hills, and other programs really make a huge difference in a city and region that is not well known for conservation of our natural resources.
Humane Canada recognizes and supports the activity of watching whales, including dolphins and other marine mammals in their natural habitat.
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