Sentences with phrase «small forest patches»

«These new findings suggest that in order for small forest patches or narrow corridors to be of long - term conservation value in oil palm landscapes, their sizes and widths need to adequately account for the considerable influence of edge effects,» Benoît Goossens, director of the Danau Girang Field Centre in Sabah, who was involved in the study, said in a statement.

ramidus times is one of a woodland setting with small forest patches.

Not exact matches

Fragments of branching coral — the type that looks like animal horns — were attached with fishing line to skeletal branches of PVC pipe, creating a small forest of life in the middle of an otherwise desolate patch of ocean floor.

Feta is a staple in my house, and I just discovered a FOREST of mint coming up in the garden from a small patch last year.

Today's big oaks grew up in forest patches that were relatively open; over the past century, these parts of the forest became shadier as villagers abandoned small - scale clearings, which have since become overgrown with hornbeam and other species.

On a per - unit - area basis, the cannabis grows resulted in 1.5 times more forest loss and 2.5 times greater fragmentation of the landscape, breaking up large, contiguous forest into smaller patches and reducing wildlife habitat.

Fewer than 300 of these great cats remain in the forest, where they are confined to small patches of jungle surrounded by cities and farmland.

Kodandaramaiah, Boyden and Forest set out to automate a 30 - year - old technique known as whole - cell patch clamping, which involves bringing a tiny hollow glass pipette in contact with the cell membrane of a neuron, then opening up a small pore in the membrane to record the electrical activity within the cell.

Small patches of white spruce forest would be cleared within a 98.3 - acre development «zone.»

The bay is ringed with kelp forests, its centre a four to five metre deep sandy patch (hence its name), making it great for snorkelling (free divers will want something deeper) and exposure to shoals of small fish.

On earth their little legs keep them grounded, content to run and explore its own small patch of the forest.

So what, exactly, do I mean by saying that the ingredient list on your morning cereal could also contain three wild bees and a small patch of forest?

The Gavião first made contact with the djala — the non-indigenous outsiders — in the 1940s, and they'd seen their forest shrink from a massive, unending world to a small patch surrounded by farms and fields.

This is much harder to measure than in undisturbed forests — these are trees in diverse small to large patches in abandoned agricultural lands intermingled with human settlements and are surely growing differently than trees in undisturbed forests or in the experimental planted and regrowing forests where carbon sink strength has been measured using precise methods.

Note that small patches (< 900 - 2,700 sq - m) of mangrove forests can not be identified using this approach.

Researchers Stephen Matthews and Paul Rodewald from Ohio State University found that «even a small urban forest can help migrating birds... [which] used the patches of greenery to rest and refuel in the middle of their journey between winter and breeding sites,» the BBC reported Friday.

Found by Dr. Marta Kolanowska and Professor Dariusz Szlachetko, both with the University of Gdansk, Poland, and Dr. Ramiro Medina Trejo from Colombia, the devilish new species is comprised of a lone population of 30 orchids growing in a small patch in a south Colombian dwarf montane forest.