Sentences with phrase «role species habitat»

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«By failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperiled biosphere.»

There, you can read about Hispaniola's great biodiversity, including 30 endemic bird species; the importance of the island to birds that winter and migrate through the West Indies and breed in North America; and the critical role of shade coffee in preserving habitat on an island with a very high level of deforestation.

Beam Suntory's operations take their role in protecting local native species and habitats very seriously.

Originally hailing from Delaware, Jeff attended graduate school at UMass Amherst, where he investigated the winter habitat of the migratory Golden - winged Warbler as well as the role of alternative coffee farming in the conservation of forest bird species in Costa Rica.

BASC north director Duncan Thomas said: «BASC recognises the important role SSSIs play in the conservation of species and habitats.

«Herbivores play important role in protecting habitats from invasive species.»

The World Conservation Union ranks the loss of native habitat and the introduction of invasive species as the most crucial problems, but unchecked activities like fishing, hunting, and logging play a role — as does human - induced climate change.

As the climate warms and some tree species shift toward cooler, more hospitable habitats, new research finds soil microbes could be playing a crucial role in determining where young trees can migrate and how well they survive when they arrive.

Topics of discussion regarding science for integrated management of coastal and shelf processes included natural variability of the coastal zone in space and time, experimental management, potential roles of different species, assemblages and habitats in coastal systems, effects of changing nutrient regimes, and perturbations of food - web dynamics.

Our next steps will be to determine the role of habitat availability in influencing species responses as the climate changes.»

«Given that habitat area and connectivity foster biodiversity, whereas isolation favors the dominance of few species, we hypothesized that topography itself could be playing a key role in regulating how biodiversity varies with elevation.»

Another study looking at lizard family trees will test whether these patterns might play a role in evolution on a larger scale: By giving lizards protection as they move around, stripes may allow them to explore different habitats, increasing the speed at which new species appear.

Snow leopards function as a keystone species — although they occur in relatively low abundance, snow leopards play a critical role in regulating the populations of other species, preventing any one species from dominating the habitat.

In the last millennium, the role of humans has become a major factor in habitat destruction and fragmentation, and there is evidence of the imprint of humans on selective cultivation of species.

«[b] y failing to adequately limit population growth, reassess the role of an economy rooted in growth, reduce greenhouse gases, incentivize renewable energy, protect habitat, restore ecosystems, curb pollution, halt defaunation, and constrain invasive alien species, humanity is not taking the urgent steps needed to safeguard our imperilled biosphere.»

At stake, added Ove Hoegh - Guldberg, director of the Center for Marine Studies at the University of Queensland, Australia, and the study's senior author, are ecosystems that play vital roles in providing habitats for a vast array of marine species that are essential to the oceans» complex food chain.

So what is most directly and immediately at risk is not so much the * existence * of species but their roles in the ecosystems, such as the roles of corals and calcifying algae in building and maintaining habitats such as reefs.

Proposed changes to the role and timing of economic impact analyses during the process of designating critical habitat for an endangered species may have unintended economic impacts on adjacent communities.