Sentences with phrase «similar habitats on»

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

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«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.

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?

«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.

But researchers found that the microorganism's cells are similar to microbes that live in a less demanding habitat on land: the soils in forests.

In this respect, the spectrum of species in Lake Victoria is now similar to that found in Lake Tanganyika or in marine habitats, where fish with pharyngeal jaws have existed alongside competitors without such jaws for up to 60 million years and have therefore never become specialized for predation on large fish.

Here we assessed the song structure of male mountain chickadees using two exemplars of high and low elevation habitats on two different mountains in the Sierra Nevada with similar mixed - conifer forest structure.

One big step would be to draw on the successes of National Parks such as Yellowstone and Yosemite by creating similar areas for underwater habitats.

Habitat Spotted skunks on the Channel Islands show habitat preferences similar to those reportedfor the mainland subspecies.

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).

Increasing the quantity and quality of habitat for pollinators is a major part of this effort — with actions ranging from the construction of pollinator gardens at Federal buildings to the restoration of millions of acres of Federally managed lands and similar actions on private lands.

Based on projections for species with similar ranges and habitats (like Le Conte's and Baird's sparrows), the inland - nesting population of Nelson's Sparrow may have a substantial shift in appropriate climate - space.

Preferred habitat: swamps, wet meadows, damp woods, marshes, bottomlands + + + + Foliage / winter appearance: dormant in summer if too dry + + + + Soil conditions: loam, clay, tolerates poor drainage + + + + Light conditions: dappled shade to full sun + + + + Plant spacing: 12 to 18» + + + + Wildlife value: Butterfly larvae like to pupate on irises + + + + Note: plant can be difficult to find; its iris cousins the Louisiana irises will achieve similar results