Sentences with phrase «similar habitats»

And their biodiversity can be increased further if many similar habitats are connected.

In this study, the authors compared the body condition of ~ 40 female alligators living with and without long - legged wading bird nesting colonies in similar habitat in the Everglades, Florida.

«Based on this study, we can predict that mantis groups with similar habitat specialization in Africa, Asia and Australia will also be far more diverse than what is currently known,» said Svenson.

Conversely, hawks tend to be strongly territorial, intolerant of human disturbance, and prefer prey like jackrabbits that occupy similar habitats,» said coauthor and USGS ecologist Kristy Howe, whose masters thesis research with WCS formed the foundation of this study.

The researchers found that the body condition of alligators found near wading bird nesting colonies was higher than those in similar habitat without active colonies, independent of a range of environmental variables.

But a group of biologists suggest in this week's Science that simply moving the butterfly into similar habitat in nearby mountain ranges might solve the problem by overcoming the unnatural barriers humans have erected in the path of any potential shift in its natural range to follow such changing conditions.

It also concerns some ecologists that the narwhal, the strange, arctic whale whose long spiral tusk may have inspired the unicorn myth, faces similar habitat threats.

Biodiversity is often studied on idealized cone - shaped mountains, where similar habitats are assumed to be found at similar altitudes.

According to new research, mid-altitudes host the largest number of species because the size and the connectedness of similar habitats are greatest there.

Other species that share similar habitats with the Gulf killifish, such as redfish, speckled trout, flounder, blue crabs, shrimp and oysters — may be at risk of similar effects.

Leopard geckos, from similar habitats, are nocturnal, but also benefit from such lighting.

Because of their isolation and remote nature, the Channel Islands support fewer native animal species than similar habitats on the mainland.

Channel Islands slender salamanders are broadly sympatric with black - bellied slender salamanders (B. nigriventris) on Santa Cruz Island, where both species tend to occupy similar habitats (Campbell, 1931b; Schoenherr et al., 1999).

Our findings show that parallel phenotypes can evolve in similar habitats and due to similar selection pressure, however, not necessarily in parallel evolutionary sequence,» explains the evolutionary biologist from Konstanz.

«Nutritional yeast is yeast that is grown on molasses or a similar habitat, much like brewer's yeast, a byproduct from producing beer,» says Brandice Lardner, an NASM - certified personal trainer and nutrition coach with One by One Nutrition.

As farms disappear and forests return, the large swaths of hay fields and similar habitats that bobolink require for breeding and raising young continue to shrink in size and number.

Bacteria and diatoms inhabit those liquid veins, and Hajo Eicken, a glaciologist at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, suspects that similar habitats could exist in the lower, warmer layers of ice on Europa, and perhaps on the other moons as well.

Could he help them launch a similar habitat program to size up offshore resources and inventory sea life on nearby reefs?

Scientists have long been intrigued by the marine biodiversity peak located around Indonesia and the Philippines, in the so - called Coral Triangle, which hosts approximately three thousand coral reef fish species, i.e. ten times more than in the eastern Pacific and Atlantic at the same latitude and in similar habitats.

This second directorial outing for screenwriting titan Mike White (after 2007's Year Of The Dog) is a similar habitat for the slightly hipsterfied cringe of Baumbach as Stiller plays an attentive dad distracted by thoughts of his wealthier and more famous peers.

In one February survey, researchers recorded 155 Channel Islands slender salamanders and 152 black - bellied slender salamanders in similar habitat.

Atlantic white cedar seedlings are hard to come by, so Delaware Wild Lands has secured seed sources from the Great Dismal Swamp in Virginia, which has similar habitat and site conditions, ensuring suitability of the seedlings.