Sentences with phrase «part of the habitat»

This will help them think about trees as a part of the habitat for local animals.

One advantage of the interconnecting environments is that they usually come with plugs, permitting you to shut your hamster in one part of the habitat while you clean a different part.

This is due in part to the fact that the Belize Barrier Reef is part of the habitat of several endangered species including manatees, whale sharks, and crocodiles.

Just the first, SITE, sets some of the toughest standards: The land must be on land previously developed, it must support urban agriculture, and «For each hectare of development, an equal amount of land away from the project site must be set aside in perpetuity as part of a habitat exchange.»

Not exact matches

According to her, there are almost 56 connected miles of pollinator habitats in the Raleigh - Durham area, thanks in part to these corporations doing their small part.

Ecoterrorists claimed responsibility in 1998 for burning part of a Colorado ski resort they said threatened animal habitats.

As part of the mines continued operations the waste rock dump is to be expanded, resulting in the loss of 75.7 ha of habitat for three threatened species of Black Cockatoo.

When these changes take effect, on a date which has yet to be announced, the prohibition on altering a fish's habitat will be replaced with a prohibition on causing «serious harm to fish that are part of a commercial, recreational or Aboriginal fishery, or to fish that support such a fishery.»

They may have assumed that sexual activity is part of the «experimentation» that college is supposed to enact, a step on the road to adulthood, but in reality it was a distressing and squalid habitat that left them hurt and confused.

In Schumacher's view, goals of agriculture should be directed «to keep man in touch with living nature, of which he is and remains a highly vulnerable part; to humanize and ennoble man's wider habitat; and to bring forth the foodstuffs and other materials which are needed for a becoming life.

The Commonwealth Environmental Water Holder David Papps said the partnership was part of ongoing efforts to protect and restore the internationally important Wetland and its complex of wetlands and woodlands, which provide habitat for a range of native flora and fauna including the nationally threatened Regent Parrot and the Southern Bell Frog.

There is something way more badass about a team named the Lions if they play in a city that is actually part of an actual Lion's native habitat.

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.

The community - based land trust and Mass Audubon plan to work with the town and local residents on possible limited residential development as part of an overall plan that will focus on agriculture, trails, and wildlife habitat.

And they spoke out vehemently against a part of the plan calling for controlled burns on the property, fearing that the burns would disrupt the habitat.

A contingent of residents who live near the site expressed their outrage at Village Hall last month, voicing concerns that the controlled burns that are part of the plan would disrupt the habitat that is currently home to myriad bird and animal species.

As part of the Microbial Ecology Lab, he will help survey the many distinct habitats of Shedd's animal populations, analyzing how unseen members of complex ecosystems are impacted by changes in the environment, advancing the understanding of how these tiny microbes affect animal health.

These early successional habitats require some form of disturbance, or in most parts of Massachusetts they will slowly succeed to forest.

Education Volunteers receive coastal New England habitat training, develop an outdoor education teaching techniques, work with experienced educators, and become part of a dedicated and knowledgeable team.

A particular emphasis will be on how BASC's Green Shoots programme can be further developed so that its members will be able to contribute to monitoring and conserving habitats and species as part of the Government's Biodiversity 2020 programme.

In 2010, Liddell - Grainger criticised plans by the Environment Agency and Natural England to create a wetland habitat at Steart on the Severn estuary as part of a realignment of coastal flood defences.

As part of the wildlife habitat improvements at Ship Canal Commons, large tree trunks were weighted and placed on the bottom of the Union Ship Canal and partially buried in the underwater stabilization berm with the roots exposed to create artificial reefs.

Riverkeeper, an organization dedicated in part to protecting the river and its adjacent communities, has responded that the plan lacks transparency, the Council was too hasty in approving the plan without adequate funding information, and did not satisfactorily address key issues related to noise and air pollution and the destruction of marine habitats.

The new study shows that stochastic influences also play an important part in determining the location of young trees, i.e. the type of habitat in which they will grow, which again turns tree species into generalists.

Spawning habitat seems to be optimal in parts of the Frank Church Wilderness, and if these conditions can be described and quantified, they might be offered as a prescription for ailing salmon elsewhere.

«The habitat allows you to become part of the surroundings,» says Martens, echoing Koblick almost word for word.

Willerslev hopes to be part of the searches, and thinks that recreating these once - coastal habitats through DNA sequencing could prove to be a valuable tool.

«Ribbed mussels live in estuarine habitats and can filter bacteria, microalgae, nutrients and contaminants from the water,» said Julie Rose, a research ecologist at the Milford Laboratory, part of the Northeast Fisheries Science Center, and co-author of the study.

Rajesh Gopal, director of Project Tiger, defends the use of pugmarks as «in tune with the local conditions» and says that the technique will be refined as part of a $ 1.1 million project now under way to map all tiger habitats.

Nor should you, ecologists add: Bark beetle outbreaks should be allowed to happen as part of the forest's life cycle, and the dead spruces provide habitat for many species.

They found that some grasshoppers from noisy habitats try to boost the low - frequency parts of their song to get their voices better heard against the low - frequency drone of traffic.

Australia does it too, and the European Union is about to publish recommendations for habitat banking as part of its strategy to halt species loss.

The scientists, part of a team headed by researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used climate reconstructions from 21,000 years ago to the present to predict where caribou habitat would likely exist and they matched reservoirs of high genetic diversity to areas with the most stable habitat over time.

The findings, part of a PhD by Dr Matthew Carroll supervised by Professor Chris Thomas at the Biology Department at the University of York, highlight the complex relationship between climate, bog habitats, insects, and birds.

Toohey said the two studies strongly suggest that permafrost loss is leading to massive changes in hydrology within the Arctic and boreal forests that may have consequences for the carbon cycle, fish and wildlife habitat and other parts of the ecosystem.

Lockheed Martin is developing its Mars habitat design as part of NASA's Next Space Technologies for Exploration Partnerships (NextSTEP) program.

Nicaragua has become the first nation to establish part of a proposed 1900 - kilometer - long corridor of wildlife habitat in Central America.

Since parts of space are colder than 5 kelvins, some meteorites may even contain materials that were once superconducting in their chilly natural habitat.

Professor Russell Wynn of NOC, who led the project and is on part - secondment to Defra, said: «The vibrant cold - water coral reefs and associated fauna in The Canyons MCZ provide a rare example of relatively pristine seafloor habitat within English waters.

Amphibians are not necessarily known for their architectural acumen, but a new study shows that during the driest parts of the year some frogs take advantage the moist habitat offered by a ball of elephant poop.

They then looked at the relative size of different parts of each animal's body, their overall sizes, and their habitats.

Physical habitat factors are commonly assessed in efforts to conserve mussels, but one of the most important parts of their early life, the paper notes, is rarely factored in.

Dr Kerry Howell, Associate Professor at Plymouth University's Marine Institute, said: «This survey has shown that human litter is present in all marine habitats, from beaches to the most remote and deepest parts of the oceans.

Land use in these parts of northern Europe has changed markedly with key butterfly habitats such as hay meadows disappearing at alarming rates.

Scientists focused on prairie chicken habitat in the southwestern part of their distribution in New Mexico and West Texas.

The work covered just one small part of Europe, and the authors could not explain what might be causing the drop, whether climate change, habitat destruction or something else.

«In fact, the miniature species are locally abundant and fairly common but they have probably been overlooked because of their extremely small size, secretive habitats and insect - like calls,» says Sonali Garg who undertook this study as part of her PhD research at University of Delhi.

But globally, long - tongued bumblebees are declining, says Cameron, as are many bees, in part because of climate change, pesticide use, and habitat loss.

«But over time the making money part really dwindled, and it's become a mission,» a way to change the global standard of living with ubiquitous energy and access to resources such as raw minerals from asteroids, helium - 3 from the moon, or oxygen, water and other lunar materials for space - or Mars - based habitats.

Researchers have found that the mating songs of male mountain chickadees (Poecile gambeli, shown) differ in their duration, loudness, and the frequency ranges of individual chirps, depending in part on the elevation of their habitat in the Sierra Nevada mountains of the western United States.