Sentences with phrase «shrinking habitat»

The range of some warm - weather species will expand, while those that depend on cooler environments will face shrinking habitats and potential extinction.

Caribou populations are predicted to become more isolated and fragmented as climate change shrinks habitat and as caribou have fewer opportunities for genes to flow between individuals and herds, explained Hundertmark.

Defying years of shrinking habitat and disappearing roosts, bat numbers across Europe increased by 43 per cent between 1993 and 2011, according to a report by the European Environment Agency.

Based on the true story of a koala, this picture book, narrated in dramatic free verse, tells a gripping story about animals pushed into human neighborhoods by shrinking habitats.

There are immediate reasons to study the vocal patterns of cetaceans: these marine mammals are threatened by human activities through competition for fishery resources, entanglement in fishing gear, collisions with vessels, exposure to pollutants and oil spills and, ultimately, shrinking habitats due to anthropogenic climate change.

In a paper published in the Journal of Mammalogy, the researchers describe the rodent as the first new mammal discovered in the islands in more than 80 years and list it as critically endangered because of its low population density and shrinking habitat caused by logging on Vangunu.

Species are adapting to urban pollution, traffic and shrinking habitats through changes in their genes

Warming could also shrink the habitat that is available, forcing the animals to move higher up mountainsides and away from good food sources.

All of them face shrinking habitats.

Caribou populations are predicted to become more isolated and fragmented as climate change shrinks their habitat and they have fewer opportunities for genes to flow between individuals and herds, explained Hundertmark.

Auto accidents, rodenticides and shrinking habitat are killing urban cats that largely occupy an area surrounded by highways and development, but a proposed wildlife bridge could offer promise

Over the past few decades, the shape of the delta has changed significantly, as ocean waves have carved away at the coastline, submerging and shrinking habitats.

A new study of amphibians argues that growing smaller to take up less resources won't always help a species avoid extinction in the face of a shrinking habitat, climate change, and disease.

In a government - sponsored study, Stern and his team concluded that decisive early action would cost humanity far less in the long run than allowing rising sea levels, dwindling freshwater supplies, and shrinking habitats to reduce global GDP a projected 20 percent.