Sentences with phrase «other plant populations»

Synthetic incompatibility has applications in controlling or eradicating invasive species, crop pests and disease - carrying insects as well as preventing altered genes from escaping from genetically modified crops into other plant populations.

Not exact matches

Today's frogs, comprising more than 6,700 known species, as well as many other animal and plant species are under severe stress around the world because of habitat destruction, human population explosion and climate change, possibly heralding a new period of mass extinction.

Consumption of contaminated fish «is an especially pressing concern for many communities of color, low - income communities, tribes, and other indigenous peoples, whose members may consume fish, aquatic plants, and wildlife in greater quantities than does the general population,» according to a landmark Environmental Protection Agency study published nearly a decade ago.

Colonisation routes, habitat shifts, disruption of populations by volcanism, dispersal by massive landslides, and other relevant aspects for adaptive and non-adaptive radiation, are largely discussed and confronted with previously published data referring to other groups of beetles or to other biological organisms (spiders, bush crickets, plants, etc.).

If we can get a viable population going, these will be spread to other botanical gardens and then some plants might be sold,» Smit adds.

But while a decade - long slump in tourism has resulted in scant state support for conservation programs, not all the news from the front lines is bad: For instance, managers are making inroads against a particularly nasty invasive plant called miconia, and fences erected around preserves have helped reduce populations of pigs, goats, and other unwanted animals.

Though the environments included in the study could have supported plant populations greater than 32,000 plants per acre, the study concluded that maintaining a lower plant population while supplying the other inputs at the advanced level neither increased nor decreased yield.

On the other hand, they say the city could grow even more resilient due to the ongoing efforts to reduce the urban heat island effect — for instance through programs to install reflective roofs and plant trees, as well as to protect vulnerable populations through heat warning systems and the availability of cooling centers.

Other far - reaching effects may include changes in bear demographics due to the change in their diet, evolving salmon populations and impacts on plant pollinators.

By comparing the genetic signatures, he will learn how similar plants growing across the U.S. southwest are to each other, and to populations in Sahara mustard's native range.

The researchers also found species loss could be offset by maintaining areas of forest that contain distinctly different populations of plants and animals that, while different, complement and help sustain each other.

The best way to do that was placing monitoring equipment far from population centers, where CO2 streaming from power plants, automobiles and other infrastructure could skew attempts to determine the average global level of CO2.

By munching grasses most other plant - eaters consider not worth the effort, the insect thrives in overgrazed grasslands until its populations swell so much that they move onto crops and pastures, wreaking havoc on local farmers.

Other archeological and fossil evidence, Cooke says, suggests the earliest human populations in Jamaica were foragers who lived off of available local resources, together with some cultivation of native island and mainland plants.

Monarch populations are critical pollinators of wildflowers and other plants, but the species has declined more than 80 percent in the last two decades.

«We hope that other scientists will use these data to answer questions such as why, unlike humans, some plants do not deteriorate as they age, why some environments are better for agriculture than others, and how fast plant populations will move in response to climate change,» said Yvonne Buckley, professor of Zoology in Trinity College Dublin's School of Natural Sciences.

The Adventist II study, which may be most informative for those following plant based diets because it includes sizeable populations of vegans / vegetarians, found that meat, legumes (but not soy) and meat analogues were all associated with reduced fracture risk (independently of each other).

Pritikin, Ornish, Esselstyn, and others took people with heart disease, and put them on the kind of plant - based diet followed by populations that had no, that didn't suffer from heart disease, hoping it would stop the disease process, keep it from progressing further.

We have strict criteria that our wild harvesters must adhere to in order to preserve plant populations and other harvest protocols.

Some populations today thrive on very few vegetables, while others subsist almost entirely on plant foods.

With no safe passage across the two nature reserves, existing plant and animal species (with already shrinking populations) would be cut adrift from their kind on the other side of the expressway.

The human population of Parkersburg, W.Va., has declined by nearly 5 percent in the last decade, partially because of plant shutdowns and other economic pressures.

In the wild, rabbits stay trim, fit and healthy because they are surrounded by the foods they evolved to eat — rabbit populations thrive in areas that are full of hay, grasses, and other plants that help them reproduce successfully.

And what are the plans to re-establish a sustainable population of the plant and the other species that historically grew with it?

Then, and as a consequence of this, there are native to Cedros herbivores, which on one hand compete with the goat population for food and presumably have kept it from increasing beyond carrying capacity, and on the other hand forced the native plants to keep their defenses against herbivores, unlike plants on megaherbivoreless islands which tend to lack those defenses.

About 150 square miles are set aside to protect the jaguar population, as well as other plant and animal species.

A brief and incomplete list of their positive roles would include the pollination of many, perhaps most higher plants; the decomposition of organic materials, facilitating the recycling of carbon, nitrogen, and other essential nutrients; the control of populations of harmful invertebrate species (including other insects); the direct production of certain foods (honey, for example); and the manufacture of useful products such as silk and shellac.

The team also compared these results with regional economic and demographic data, as well as other information that provided clues to the sources — for example, data on human populations, livestock populations, electricity production from power plants, oil and natural gas production, production from oil refineries, rice production, and coal production.

However, human population are growing quickly and at first can coexist with other animals and plants, but as human population are growing more they take away other animals and plants habitate and overcusumpt them, let them exitinct one by one.

One should also pay attention to other greenhouse gases, particularly methane (from rice paddies, ruminant animal digestive processes, industrial processes, and distributed natural sources, some of which could be triggered to large releases by warming) and nitrous oxide (from the nitrogen cycle linking the atmosphere, plants, and bacteria, now exacerbated by extremely heavy use of nitrogenous fertilizers in agriculture; note, as does Vaclav Smil from the University of Manitoba, that fertilizer use is required to feed half the world's current population.

Year - round, the National Arbor Day Foundation, the largest 501 (c)(3) nonprofit membership organization dedicated to tree planting, provides infrastructure and resources to corporate partners, cities, college campuses and other organizations seeking to make their communities more sustainable by improving the health of their tree populations.

Whereas this has had noticeable, negative impacts that are expected to worsen in every region of the United States and its territories, including, among other significant weather events and environmental disruptions, longer and hotter heat waves, more severe storms, worsening flood and drought cycles, growing invasive species and insect problems, threatened native plant and wildlife populations, rising sea levels, and, when combined with a lack of proper forest management, increased wildfire risk;

As such, Severnini's study could play an important role in catalysing further action to keep nuclear plants on - line, and growing their share of the electricity mix, as a way to protect the health of infants, children, and other vulnerable populations.

The key threat here involves the expansion of hot and arid conditions into areas that currently sustain large populations: failure of other animal and plant species (including those farmed for food) to adapt quickly enough to such changes and subsequent ecosystem / agricultural collapses would obviously have massive impacts upon us.

On the other hand, resilience of established plants and seed banks [46], differing population responses at range margins [47], and adaptive evolutionary responses might mitigate the influence of climate change.

But other elements could potentially also contribute to a collapse: an accelerating extinction of animal and plant populations and species, which could lead to a loss of ecosystem services essential for human survival; land degradation and land - use change; a pole - to - pole spread of toxic compounds; ocean acidification and eutrophication (dead zones); worsening of some aspects of the epidemiological environment (factors that make human populations susceptible to infectious diseases); depletion of increasingly scarce resources [6,7], including especially groundwater, which is being overexploited in many key agricultural areas [8]; and resource wars [9].

Cattle ranching, agriculture and other human activities are breaking up Costa Rican forests into isolated patchy fragments, but causing more problems for native plant populations than for monkey species sharing the same habitat.

Their sources include church records, commissions of inquiries into glacier disasters, taxes on farms affected by glaciers, town records, population records, illustrations and lithographs, observations by travellers and scientists, scientific papers, historic articles on glaciers from contemporary sources in English, French, German and Italian, correlation with wine and grain harvest dates, alpine clubs, mountaineers and tree line / plant growth records amongst other sources.

And what the rest of coastal USA is doing about this, has nothing to do with rain barrels, oyster reefs, buffer zone plantings, Bacterra Storm Water Filters, picking up soda cans in the marshes and some of the other feel good - do nothing projects that the Virginian Pilot has been promoting to an incredibly naïve local population for several years now.

The results of a comprehensive study investigating the impacts of living near 378 coal plants in the United States have found that people of color and low - income communities are disproportionately more burdened by this pollution than any other segment of the population.

Across the country, water demand from power plants is combining with pressure from growing populations and other needs, and is straining our water resources — especially during droughts and heat waves.

Changes in Plant and Animal Populations The shift toward drier meadow ecosystems could spell trouble for many of the animals and other wildlife who live in wetter meadow ecosystems, Debinski explains:

From regulating plant growth to regulating populations of other species, mammals are a must.