Sentences with phrase «remaining suitable habitat»

The study models predicted that, on average, a shocking 75 percent of all remaining suitable habitat across all species examined would disappear by the year 2080.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

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That is why the Duthie Reserve still remains the most suitable habitat to ensure the survival of this rare and critically endangered plant,» he adds.

Until now, most estimates of how many species are threatened by climate change have been based on theoretical studies that look at the climatic and environmental conditions that species need to survive, and overlay this with estimates of how much suitable habitat will remain as the world warms.

This highly inaccessible island outcrop has very few areas of suitable habitat for the remaining population of stick insects.

Moving a colony of feral cats — and convincing them to stay — is a complex process involving specific procedures that start with finding a suitable new habitat or location, and must be followed without shortcuts if you want the cats to be safe and remain at the relocation site.

While approximately 1.5 million square kilometers of suitable habitat still remain in Asia -LRB-[9], Figure 1), tigers today are distributed heterogeneously [7], [13] and, except in the Russian Far East, are now restricted to small pockets, mostly in protected areas.