Sentences with phrase «potential habitat»

For example, project planners identify areas likely or known to be used by large numbers of bats and consideration is given to potential habitat impacts when deciding where to place wind turbines.

The rats also ate juvenile coconuts, leaving the shells as potential habitat for mosquito larvae.

She is looking at carbon cycling processes, including microbial, in a wide variety of potential habitats in areas surrounding the Princess Elizabeth station.

«Given the widespread potential habitat in the Okavango, it seems odd the species is collected so infrequently, but it may well be that it is quite rare.»

Of these 398 (41 % of all species) are expected to experience a range of loss of under 10 % of their present - day suitable temperature potential habitat.

18.6 % of species are projected to lose between 10 - 40 % of their present - day potential habitat.

The authors suggest that the more often an animal reproduces, the greater the variability in the ocean currents that larvae can experience, and the more potential habitats that a dispersing animal could be connected to.

Some scientists believe that such subsurface lakes of water provide potential habitats for Earth - type life.

They are transmitted mainly through the bite of a phlebotomine sand fly, which feeds on blood, and global warming is expanding the insect's potential habitat northward from Latin America.

And while many species may be leaving some environments and expanding into others, there are limits to how much a species» range can shift; man - made structures may already occupy potential habitats, and many species, like those that live on islands, for example, have territories that are already bounded by natural barriers.

5,000 Plants From 20 Species The vertical garden, the first in Denmark, serves to insulate the building, absorbing urban noise and reduce dust, thereby improving air quality, while also offering potential habitat to birds and insects.

«So, it appears that, at least in the Misiones province, the jaguar should not be modeled as an umbrella species because the results fail to capture the varied requirements of coexisting species across the breadth of potential habitats.»

Astronomers could have discovered that planets are scarce or that potential habitats are rare.

These newly discovered lakes are a potential habitat for microbial life and may assist scientists in the search for life beyond earth.

But the investigators note that they have searched only a fraction of the creature's potential habitat.

The FWS is putting together a Jaguar Recovery Team with experts from the U.S. and Mexico to further study the potential jaguar populations as well as their potential habitat.

Devoid of light but likely bursting with supersaturated oxygen and other gases, Vostok has long been speculated to be a potential habitat for unique ecosystems of extremophilic microbial life (and who knows what else).

Its radar sounder will seek buried water, while its camera will map features as small as a coffee table, aiding the search for potential habitats of past or present life.

This hidden ocean is, says Hayes, «the most accessible laboratory for prebiotic chemistry in the solar system» — a potential habitat for life.

But evidence is mounting that the moon may have liquid water beneath its surface, a potential habitat for life.

The saltiness of the newly discovered lakes makes them a potential habitat for microbes — which may assist scientists in the search for life beyond Earth.