Sentences with phrase «species found in the area»

Crawford and his team mapped out the history and relationships — such as their common ancestors and when they split from other species — of all the species they found in the area.

The more than 500 rare plant and animal species found in the area also make it worth visiting.

Here, a person can also examine the numerous plant species found in the area, see and hear howler monkeys playing, and breathe oxygen enriched air that will likely make him or her feel a burst of energy.

They are equipped with binoculars and a list of bird species found in the area.

Not exact matches

Roaming the Bay State's spectacular landscapes and coastal areas in search of hard - to - find species is not the only way to be part of this popular competition.

A catch and release advisory is in effect for several bodies of water in Newburgh after a study finds elevated levels of PFOS in certain fish species in the area.

«So my lab is currently looking at those other species of borrelia to see if they're found in this area and how common they are and, similar to this study, to see if ticks are co-infected with those at unexpected rates.»

Only the most generalist species remain in the smaller fragments, she added, such as the white - eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) or the nine - banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), which are able to adapt to disturbed environments because they do not need such large areas to find food.

Scientists have found that small streams, in areas of the eastern Brazilian Amazon that are a mixture of forest and farmland, contain fauna new to science, as well as very rare species.

Scientists only found this species in forest areas, and if palm oil plantations continue to take over, the peat swamp frog, along with its forest home, could be a thing of the past.

The dead wood - dependent species living at beaver sites may differ from those found in managed forests or fire areas.

Once chytrid finds a suitable area, it can kill half the amphibian species there within three months, and currently scientists have no way to stop or eradicate the fungus in the wild.

Three or four spider species live in most North American homes, and they all tend to be found either tending their webs or hunting in nonhuman - infested areas.

The bee species is found in sub-tropical, coastal and desert areas from the north - east to the south of Australia.

Using a unique GPS - tracking database of 803 individuals across 57 species, we found that movements of mammals in areas with a comparatively high human footprint were on average one - half to one - third the extent of their movements in areas with a low human footprint.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

Smaller green areas tend to have a subset of the species found in larger green areas, and the range of species in smaller areas tends to comprise mainly vectors,» he said.

New sociological evidence from a a small fishing village in Baja California, Mexico suggests that the creation of marine protected areas, which influence who gets to fish and how much of species they can take, generates both extreme pro-social and anti-social behaviors among fishers, a finding that differs from previous economic and psychology studies.

This finding supports the idea that the earlier identification of comb jellies in this area was wrong, and that the Arctic comb jelly is found in the Baltic Sea as an Ice Age relic, not as an alien species.

«Our findings can help prioritize areas and species that might be at greater risk of extinction and that might require extra attention, conservation or management — protecting vulnerable species in vulnerable places.»

Isotope evidence was corroborated with morphological comparison of Gastornis bill anatomy relative to that of extant birds, which suggested that the large muscle attachment area in Gastornis jaws is similar to that found in herbivorous species.

Noting its mere presence does not paint a very useful picture — a species may be found in a particular area but that doesn't mean it is making much of a living there; it may, just, be making ends meet for the time being.

It now has a near - monopoly in the area, the study found — and that could make the whole region more vulnerable to invading species.

«Even if the species could survive in the area, we shouldn't be finding an accumulation of reef.»

By testing in the lab the effect of water type, contaminants, or the presence of different species of animals and bacteria, they may be able to translate these findings to the wild, and explain why juvenile pillar corals are missing in certain areas, helping to support local coastal protection.

Although bee abundance decreased with an increasing level of urbanization, the number of species present was at its peak in periurban areas, and 60 species — a considerable number — were found at the most urban site.

The researchers were surprised to find that the diversity of invasive species — the total number of non-native species — and the total abundance (or land cover) of invasive plants stayed the same in areas where deer grazed and where they were excluded.

Fitzpatrick grew 30 species of plants found in the Greater Toronto Area including familiar plants like goldenrod, milkweed, and asters.

Combining genetics with nearly ten years of field surveys, biologists discovered 11 new species, only to find that five of them are already extinct in the area.

For the study, Fitzpatrick grew 30 species of plants found in the Greater Toronto Area from seed in identical soil mixtures in a laboratory setting.

Results showed a large decrease in the number of birds in the «sonic net» and areas just outside and found that it was particularly effective at deterring a number of species that were at high risk of bird strike such as starlings.

The authors looked at the ranges of some 17,348 species of marine life, including whales, sharks rays and fish, and found that 97.4 percent have less than 10 percent of their range represented in marine protected areas.

For example, the majority of species that were considered very poorly represented (less than two percent of their range found in marine protected areas) are found in exclusive economic zones.

The findings come after UEA research revealed that up to half of all plant and animal species in the world's most naturally rich areas could face local extinction by the turn of the century due to climate change if carbon emissions continue to rise unchecked.

Finding places where the two species overlapped was so difficult that the researchers used a specially trained scent dog to track down pine marten scat in gray squirrel — populated areas.

While the team observed some consistent upward shifts in range to cooler areas, they also found that some species didn't move, and that others even migrated downslope.

This is the only land planarian in the» 100 worst invasive alien species» list and it has now been found in additional localities including islands in the Pacific area, Puerto Rico, the first record in the Caribbean, and the first report in mainland U.S., in Florida.

By incorporating both the area of the gecko toe pad and stiffness in their model, the biologists found it was possible to explain 92 percent of the variation in adhesive ability among a variety of gecko species.

Scientists from the universities of Granada and Almería have now carried out an exhaustive analysis of the populations of this species, and have observed that the plants found in Málaga differ significantly from those found in Granada: they have flowers with a long and straight spur, which are uniform in colour and intensely violet, except for a yellow spot at the entrance to the tube of the corolla (the area called the palate), with subtle violet veins.

«Our findings clearly demonstrate that if future protected area expansion continues in a «business - as - usual» fashion, threatened species coverage will increase only marginally,» said Associate Professor James Watson, WCS's Climate Change Program Director and a Principle Research Fellow at the University of Queensland, and senior author on the study.

It's just amazing that, you know, you could capture that much information and it's interesting in the scientific perspective because what we are finding right now with issues like climate change and conservation is that we really need fine - grained samples from very large geographic areas to really understand the dynamics of species range movements and how fragmentation is occurring and many biogeographic questions, and literally, the only way we can do this is through voluntary networks like this because it would cost billions and billions to send professionals out at that finer scale to understand it.

The fact that these species have also been found in modern - day Brazil helps scientists paint a picture of the ways that animals spread during the Permian and how they colonized new areas.

Although it makes up only 6 percent of California by area, it contains one - quarter of the species found in the California Floristic Province, a global biodiversity hotspot.

After the first five years of protection, scientists found that fish species targeted by fishermen had both greater density (numbers of fish per area) and biomass (total weight per area) inside MPAs as compared to reference sites outside — and this was still true in 2013.

The new species is likely found within the park as well, bringing the number of known amphibian species in this area to 156.

Species - rich areas may seem to have a sort of insurance against loss of traits because the functions the traits provide are assumed to be found in many species, says David Mouillot, a marine ecologist at the University of Montpellier in Species - rich areas may seem to have a sort of insurance against loss of traits because the functions the traits provide are assumed to be found in many species, says David Mouillot, a marine ecologist at the University of Montpellier in species, says David Mouillot, a marine ecologist at the University of Montpellier in France.

The new species, dubbed Tongtianlong limosus (or «muddy dragon on the road to heaven»), marks the sixth species of oviraptorosaur found in the Ganzhou area.

The researchers were «surprised» to find no pattern matching between cuckoos and raptors that live in different geographical areas, showing that the visual similarity is highly localised to species in the immediate vicinity.

They found that biodiversity hotspots — those that have seen habitat loss in the past but have a lot of species only found in that area — are threatened, showing high levels of biodiversity decline.

To control for this variability, it was important to match the species of historical samples with those found in the same area today.