Sentences with phrase «savanna for»

A central metaphor lies at the heart of this debut novel: a lioness, against all empirically derived expectation, guarding a young gazelle in the savanna for a period of days as tense as a knife's edge, protecting the fawn and yet holding it hostage.

Think of it this way: our ancient ancestors had to forage in the savanna for food and water, but there was no telling where they would find these resources.

After abandonment, a lush carpet of grass springs up and these fertile «glades» — sometimes as large as a football field — remain visibly distinct from the surrounding savanna for over a century.

3) I wonder sometimes if Hunters would mistake Mertesecker in the savanna for a Giraffe and shoot him?

Not exact matches

Since leaving politics, Mr Kerin has served with bodies including the Australian Meat and Livestock Corporation, CSIRO, the Poultry Cooperative Research Centre, the Australian Weed Research Centre, the CRC for Tropical Savannas Management, UNICEF Australia and the National Ovine Johne's Disease Programme Advisory Committee.

They have the fewest constructs (no power plays, no free throws, no first downs), and they date to our standing upright for the first time on the savanna.

A final plan for the land has not yet been devised, but park officials say they envision an «outdoor museum» consisting of wetland areas, landscaped berms, an oak savanna, bird sanctuary, weather station, wind tower, new playgrounds and picnic areas and an expanded and improved 12th Street Beach.

Kids help prepare some African savanna animals (lions, giraffes, and elephants) for their sleep with simple bedtime routines.

The grant will partially fund an ongoing project to remove non-native trees and shrubs from a 2.4 - acre area of oak savanna in the Lyman Woods - North Addition, according to Pat Saunders, manager of natural resources for the Downers Grove Park District, which owns the preserve with the...

Seeing an Andy Warhol painting of a Campbell's soup can does not make us reach for a spoon, and neither should a painting of a sunset make us imagine we are out on the savanna with no place to sleep.

Orians argued, for instance, that the celebrated landscape of the English country house was an unconscious attempt to recreate the environment of the African savanna.

Bar coding suggests, for instance, that savanna elephants and forest elephants belong to the same species, Loxodonta africana.

For thousands of years, pastoralists in East African savannas have penned their cattle overnight in brush - walled corrals, called bomas.

Evolutionary psychologists have long suspected that the human perceptual system has an innate fondness for landscapes with wide, open views, thanks to the millions of years our forebears spent on the savannas of Africa.

For example, the savanna sparrow has recently begun breeding in Siberia, while the great spotted woodpecker has made it to Alaska for the first tiFor example, the savanna sparrow has recently begun breeding in Siberia, while the great spotted woodpecker has made it to Alaska for the first tifor the first time.

Glucocorticoids are necessary for surviving a stressful sprint across the savanna with a hungry leopard on one's tail.

Off the coast of Namibia, for several months a year, a layer of smoke from African savanna fires drifts over a persistent deck of low clouds.

The planetary boundaries expert group suggests a focus on abandoned cropland in Europe and North America, together with land in the former Soviet Union and «some areas of Africa's savannas and South America's Cerrado» for this unavoidable increase in cultivated area.

«The region's savanna landscapes provide critical resources for both people and animals.

«This study is one of the first to quantitatively examine the loss of forested areas and other land cover changes in savanna environments,» said Richard Yuretich, program director for the National Science Foundation's Dynamics of Coupled Natural and Human Systems Program, which funded the research.

For decades anthropologists have argued the «savanna hypothesis»: that bipedalism evolved on the savannas of Africa as spreading grasslands forced our ancestors to walk increasing distances across open territory.

A good sense of smell probably helped our ancestors find out which foods were edible after leaving Africa's forests for the savanna.

The geographic variation of specific DNA markers was then mapped separately for savanna and forest elephants, which appear to be two separate species.

If the report's conclusions are accepted by the African Specialist Group of the International Union for Conservation Nature (IUCN), the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) may be split into two species: L. africana, for those living on the savanna, and L. cyclotis, for those in the forest.

On the ancient savannas, this manifested itself when hunters killed a wildebeest, and everyone gorged for a few days, storing the excess food in fat cells.

But just how yesterday's savannas became today's sand dunes has stumped scientists for decades.

A small mammal that likes to feast on a soybean pest in Brazil's Cerrado illustrates how preserving this savanna landscape is good for farms as well as biodiversity

According to Williams's model, for example, the Amazon rain forest is toast: By the end of the century, and possibly even by midcentury, tropical rain forests will be taken over by savannas — the next hottest biome — their lush trees replaced by expanses of tall grass.

The new glimpse of the footpaths of animals and humans complement earlier studies that reveal the anatomy and behavior of H. erectus, suggesting that as it evolved modern body proportions, it also increased its home range and began competing with carnivores for carcasses on the savanna, says Harris.

In 2002 he won the World Food Prize for, among other things, helping Brazilians turn 70 million acres of infertile savanna into productive farmland.

For grasslands and savannas, for instance, five stages mark the transition to desert, each having a distinct pattern of plant growFor grasslands and savannas, for instance, five stages mark the transition to desert, each having a distinct pattern of plant growfor instance, five stages mark the transition to desert, each having a distinct pattern of plant growth.

Stein Mano and Meinrat Andreae of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz studied smoke samples from fires in Siberian forests, Californian chaparral and South African savanna, and from grass - burning experiments in their laboratory.

C4 grasses include some of the world's most important food and energy crops and C4 grassy savannas provide critical ecosystem services for more than a billion people.

«We examined the spatial and financial extent of the threat of gamba grass and found that 75 % of the area across northern Australia suitable for savanna burning is also highly suitable for gamba grass.

During the day, men and women go their separate ways to forage for tubers, berries, honey and meat in the savanna woodlands near Tanzania's Lake Eyasi and surrounding areas.

«To predict the effects this type of deforestation has on the relationship between rain forest and the savanna — and on the local and global climate — it's necessary to understand how the transitional forest evolves in time and reacts to disturbances,» explained Yannick De Decker, associate professor at the Center for Nonlinear Phenomena and Complex Systems, as well as the Nonlinear Physical Chemistry Unit at ULB.

Raising rice in the savannas: Few farmers once bothered with the savannas of South America for anything other than cattle raising.

The vast magnificent savanna, forests, wooded savannas, and deep rivers habitats remain largely intact with potential for recovery of wildlife populations if urgent and robust conservation security measures are taken in this strategic area, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), ECOFAUNE + / AGRECO, and the Ministry of Environment of Central African Republic said in a report issued today.

The sediment samples that Berke studied came from Lake Malawi in southeast Africa, whereas data used for the savanna hypothesis came from the north.

She had to go through the same rigmarole for a team at the center of the Garry oak savanna range in Oregon.

as forests and savannas are cut down for cattle pastures and cropland.

There, with help from Wasser and his colleagues in Seattle, geneticist Al Roca sequenced introns — vestigial sections of DNA from the nucleus that accumulate mutations quickly because they don't code for any physical traits — and confirmed that forest and savanna elephants diverged at least 2.6 million and probably more than 3 million years ago — long enough to render them separate species.

I felt a bit sorry for it, almost as if the moving trucks were already on the way and the place was scheduled to be turned into a Garry oak savanna that very day.

Land - use change and agriculture are by far the largest sources of greenhouse gas emissions in Brazil, as forests and savannas are cut down for cattle pastures and cropland.

For example, what are the essential components of a Garry oak savanna?

When during the Pleistocene era more and more forested areas turned into savanna landscapes, there was simply an insufficient food supply for the giant ape,» concludes the scientist from Tübingen.

Instead, Hedin said, he and his colleagues have found for the first time that root diameter and reliance on fungi — or the lack thereof — are the traits that most consistently characterize the plant community across entire biomes, which are large distinct communities of animals and plants such as a desert, temperate forest or savanna.

The research proposes a scenario for the development of savannas in landscapes that would otherwise become closed forests.

The highest correlations between the net land carbon flux and continental biome mean fire weather season metrics were observed in the tropical and subtropical forests, grasslands and savannas and xeric shrublands of South America where regional fire weather season length metrics accounted for between 15.7 and 29.7 % of the variations in global net land carbon flux (Table 5).

During the day they go their separate ways to forage for tubers, berries, honey and meat in the savanna woodlands near Tanzania's Lake Eyasi and surrounding areas.