Sentences with phrase «smaller island size»

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Singapore, the smallest nation in Asia, occupies a 225 - square - mile expanse of swampy, tropical islands — an area about the size of Trenton, New Jersey.

Given the small size of the island, Harford says, the number of restaurants «is a lot.»

While it easily could be forgotten and overlooked in City affairs primarily due to its very small size, Staten Island politicians have worked across party lines to promote Staten Island's interests and political profile.

Lagos State is the smallest entity of the Nigerian Federation by land size; a small string of lagoonal islands connected by bridges to an increasingly packed mainland.

The city last studied adverse health issues for Staten Island residents near Fresh Kills in 1997, but its sample size was small and it was before 9/11, Borelli said.

The charge of excess budgeting, which auditors have noted in reports on about 20 districts on the Island since January 2014, annoys many school administrators in Nassau and Suffolk counties, who say they must maintain financial cushions to preserve student programs and small class sizes in an era of fiscal uncertainty.

The creature evolved its small size, they surmised, as a response to the limited resources available on its island home — a phenomenon that had previously been documented in other mammals, but never humans.

«The dinosaur probably had to shrink down to dwarf size in order to survive, given the limited food available on these small islands in the shallow Central European sea,» says Lallensack.

Though small in size, the islands apparently exert considerable influence over a sizable stretch of the Pacific Ocean.

The island rule predicts that populations of small mammals evolve larger body size on islands than on the mainland, whereas island - bound large mammals evolve smaller body size than their mainland counterparts.

The study also showed that treeshrews on smaller islands tend to have smaller body size.

New fossils now indicate some giant pterosaurs probably did dine on bigger prey, such as dwarf dinosaurs the size of a small horse, 70 million years ago on an island that became modern - day Transylvania.

Oppel and his team found that they could use audio recordings to estimate a bird's population size after testing the method on a raucous colony of Cory's shearwaters that breeds on a small island in the Azores called Corvo.

Ms Lee said Antarctic ice - free areas cover less than one per cent of the continent, ranging from the size of a football pitch to the size of a small Pacific Island.

This is a photograph of the greater bamboo lemur is a small cat sized primate living on the island of Madagascar and is considered to be one of the most endangered primates on Earth.

On Koram, the sizes of multiple prey species were significantly smaller than on NomSao, and selected tool sizes correlated positively with targeted prey size on both islands.

Finally, if the macaques have had an evolutionarily significant effect on prey biology, we would expect to find that shellfish on Koram, which are exposed to increased predation pressure, mature at a younger age (and smaller size) than shellfish on NomSao island.

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That's the equivalent of 1.6 times the size of Texas (the largest state in the Lower 48) or 411 Rhode Islands (the smallest state).

VANCOUVER ISLAND, B.C. — The small crowd of protesters made up for its size with intensity, brandishing signs and shaking fists as we approached.

It was there in 1512 that sailors, swabbing in the squadron of the Portuguese explorer Antonio de Abreu, had followed an alluring fragrance smack into the fabled islands to discover an incredibly large treasure hidden in a deceptively small package — the golden, walnut - sized fruit Myristica fragrans, otherwise known as the common nutmeg.

black, dark grey, blue, ligth brown, red or brindle brindle from dark too ligth grey / yellow / red males 64 - 68 cm / females 60 - 64 cm + / - 4 cm male 59 - 64 cm / females 55 - 59 cm goes back too roman times based on original dogs on the canary islands mixed with mastiffs and bulldogs the english brought with them So basic gist one is a newer smaller breed which has to be brindle, the other is an old breed where some colors of solid is allowed and its bigger in size Read all the answers in the comments.

However, small dogs including Toy Poodles, Pomeranians, Yorkies and Chihuahuas have their own specific health problems that are related to their size which require special attention from a veterinarian Staten Island.

Eradication of cats was possible for various reasons: firstly, it is an island with a very small human population and therefore with a low risk or re-introduction of cats; its size is small (26km2) which helps control and monitoring; and lastly, the vegetation is sparse, with many open areas.

The breed was developed as a herding and companion dog, and their small size was created to suit the smaller sized livestock on the Shetland Islands.

This small island may be smaller in size than many of the other islands, but it by no means lacks in the marine life that you'll see here.

However, due to the small island's small size, nowhere is more than a mile away in any direction.

Nonetheless, despite its small size this channel is geographically important, for it has made Ambergris Caye an island rather than the extension of the Xcalac Peninsula it used to be.

However due to the island's small size no point is further than an hour's walk away from the harbour, with most of the villages and resorts connected by a labyrinth of picturesque lanes.

Located on the water's edge and just 20 minutes via a ferry from Townsville, Peppers Blue on Blue Resort on Magnetic Island is one of Queensland's finest conference destinations, perfect for small to medium size conferences and events.

On the reef are several small beautiful coral islands ranging in size from one half to four acres.

The density of females on Sea Lion Island was quite low (about 110 females per km of the coastline suitable for breeding) compared to densities recorded in other sub-Antarctic populations: this low level of crowding of females probably depends on the small population size and the abundance of sandy beaches with a gentle slope, which are the preferred breeding habitat for elephant seal.

More recent reports of high pup production (up to 5000 pups) and increase in colonies size seem unlikely: given the scarce breeding outside of Sea Lion Island, we think that the whole population size may be significantly smaller.

Roughly the size of Massachusetts, this relatively small country (176 miles long and 88 miles wide) boasts rainforest — covered mountains, hundreds of cayes (islands, pronounced keys) and the largest barrier reef in the Western hemisphere.

The island is especially ideal for incentive trips and small or medium - size groups wanting to stay and meet in one facility.

The number of different animal species found on the Channel Islands, defined as species diversity, is small compared to what would likely be found on a mainland area of similar size.

Even though Puerto Rico is a small island about the size of Connecticut, there are many different award flight options.

The small size of the island fox is an adaptation to the limited resources available in the island environment.

It is distinguishable from the island deer mouse by its smaller head, body size and it's relatively much longer tail, including the grooves on the anterior face of the upper incisors.

St. John may be the smallest of the U.S. Virgin Islands, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in sheer breathtaking beauty.

The small size and tameness of island foxes are traits often linked to insular evolutionary pressures [1].

The approximately 450 sand and mangrove cays confined within the barrier and atolls range in size from small, ephemeral sand spits to larger, permanent islands capable of sustaining human settlements.

Island fox dwarfism may have occurred rapidly (2 millennia or less) because the earliest fox bones (~ 7100 cal BP) were already small in size.

Despite small population sizes and limited geographic distribution, island foxes have generated and maintained mitochondrial diversity, even with population reductions to only 15 individuals on some islands during the 1990s [11].

We have a history of allowing projects on islands that are too small for the size of megaprojects.

Pantelleria island is around 32 square miles in size making it the fourth largest island in Italy and has a main town which shares its name as well as a few smaller villages.

The coins, which were stamped from sheets of brass and engraved with the island logo — a cross on a hill and SCIC, the abbreviation for the Santa Cruz Island Co. — came in two sizes: dime - sized for docile or smaller sheep and quarter - sized for larger, unruly island logo — a cross on a hill and SCIC, the abbreviation for the Santa Cruz Island Co. — came in two sizes: dime - sized for docile or smaller sheep and quarter - sized for larger, unruly Island Co. — came in two sizes: dime - sized for docile or smaller sheep and quarter - sized for larger, unruly sheep.

Located on the northern tip of the island of Fuerteventura, facing the small islet of Lobos, the town of Corralejo is a seaside resort that is around 3 sq km in size.

Decades of research on island fox morphology and interactions with humans have documented their smaller size relative to mainland gray foxes, the occurrence of intentional island fox burials, and the use of fox pelts by Native Americans [18 — 22], but their evolutionary history has remained unresolved.

Despite its small size, South Plaza is home to a large number of species, including a large population of sea lions, a healthy population of land iguanas — some of the smallest in the islands, numerous marine iguanas, and cliffs full of nesting seabirds, such as Swallow - tailed Gulls, Red - billed Tropicbirds, Audubon's Shearwaters, Nazca Boobies, and several other species.