Sentences with phrase «species at these high elevations»

[17][22] Species at higher elevations can benefit from a greater chance of inundation at the highest tides when increased water depths and marsh surface flows can penetrate into the marsh interior.

In the Cascade Ranges and the Sierra Nevada, species at high elevations tend to move south to higher elevations.

Not exact matches

I had two great birding milestones there: my first Resplendent Quetzal, a near threatened species, and my 1000th life bird, a Ruddy Woodcreeper at an ant swarm, which are kind of unusual at high elevations.

They scouted steep mountainsides where the tree species currently lives and sites at higher elevations where the tree is likely to expand.

Fossils of the new species were found at Quebrada Honda, a high elevation fossil site in southern Bolivia.

Although Bd poses less of a threat to frogs in the lowlands, this study suggests that species at lower elevations are more susceptible to climate changes, putting them at risk if they are unable to adapt or move to higher altitudes.

Dozens of studies have already demonstrated that species are shifting their geographic ranges over time as the climate warms, towards cooler habitats at higher elevations and latitudes.

In each case, one species lived at a higher latitude or elevation than the other.

Examining museum skins revealed that this new species was also smaller overall with a longer and denser coat; field records showed that it occurred in a unique area of the northern Andes Mountains at 5,000 to 9,000 feet above sea level — elevations much higher than the known species of olingo.

• At tree line, butterfly diversity is actually going up, as lower - elevation species react to the warming climate by moving upslope to higher, cooler elevations.

Without GHG emissions mitigation, they will blink out just as will numerous other species dependent upon cold climate conditions in the arctic and at high elevations around the world.

Die - offs also occurred during the winter but not the summer.7 Researchers in Central and South America also found that populations that lived at higher and cooler elevations were extirpated, while populations of the same species living at lower and warmer elevations were still thriving.8, 9 Similarly in the United States, the extirpations were happening at higher elevations in Yosemite, and during the winter in Arizona when cooler temperatures prevailed.6

Those that formerly lived at low elevations have moved higher, while high - elevation species have contracted their ranges upwards.

In this case, we can infer that not only one species but a community of plants occurred at a high - elevation location ∼ 5000 yr ago under likely warmer conditions.

Gradually changing a climatic parameter until some biological threshold is exceeded for most individuals and populations of a species across its geographic range — for example, increasing ambient temperature past the limit at which an animal can dissipate metabolic heat, as is happening with pikas at higher elevations in several mountain ranges (Grayson, 2005).

Many different species of plants and animals have been moving higher up in elevation and farther away from the equator at much faster rates than previously realized.