Sentences with phrase «reducing available habitat»

To complicate matters, timber harvest has reduced available habitat for both species.

Expansion of oxygen minimum zones may reduce available habitat for tropical pelagic fishes.

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They interfered with the lizards» ability to move around and limited available habitat by reducing the variety of rodent species which create burrows.

Recruitment is related to the winter sea ice cover from the previous year, as diminished sea ice cover reduces habitat available for over-wintering juvenile and adult krill and reduces the size of the food - rich marginal sea ice zone in summer.

Such observations support the hypothesis that reduced ice increases available foraging habitat and consequently the western Arctic's carrying capacity.

A dead zone off the coast of West Africa is reducing the amount of available habitat for Atlantic tuna and billfish species, reports the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in...