Sentences with phrase «species habitats allow»

These single - species habitats allow for strict control of the water chemistry and lighting to match the needs of the coral.

Understanding species habitat allows us to address conservation problems that are often unexpected and critical to maintaining healthy populations.»

Not exact matches

At the same time, we would like to see not merely the preservation of existing wilderness, but changes in human habitat and land use that would allow us to share the land much more generously with other species.

The priority habitat designation program allows the Massachusetts Department of Fish and Game's Fisheries and Wildlife Division to review projects in environmentally sensitive areas and make recommendations for landowners to avoid impacts to these vulnerable species.

By helping researchers identify threatened species and habitats, the census will allow better protection of the ocean's resources.

Nor should you, ecologists add: Bark beetle outbreaks should be allowed to happen as part of the forest's life cycle, and the dead spruces provide habitat for many species.

The study, carried out in collaboration with several international teams, demonstrates the need to protect certain irreplaceable habitats that allow species to persist during periods of climate change.

This build - up of nitrogen, ecologists believe, will attract pests and allow other plant species to invade these habitats, changing them forever.

«It suggests that the findings we can manage locally, like pesticides, habitat destruction and planting companion plants, can actually make a difference because these factors can buy pollinators time for natural selection and evolution, thus allowing the species to keep pace with the things that we can't manage locally,» said Galen.

This more dynamic view of conservation, which allows for species» adaptation to human - altered habitats and changing climates, may be a way to maintain a portion of endangered genetic ancestry, the scientists suggest.

«Because climate change affects some environmental factors like precipitation and temperature but not others like day length, phenotypic plasticity could allow some species to persist in a habitat despite changing conditions and provide more time for them to evolve and migrate,» says co-author Zachariah Gezon, a Ph.D. student in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Dartmouth.

In a study of 44 European bird species, all but four allowed humans to approach them more closely in cities than in rural habitats.

«The behavioral changes can allow species to expand their range to novel marginal habitats that differ sharply from the core habitat.»

They hoped that by allowing rich game - chasers to shoot a few animals, landowners would have an incentive to conserve lion habitats and keep the species alive while boosting their local economies.

Another study looking at lizard family trees will test whether these patterns might play a role in evolution on a larger scale: By giving lizards protection as they move around, stripes may allow them to explore different habitats, increasing the speed at which new species appear.

Once the research team finishes plugging data from other endangered species into his model, Colwell hopes to work out a definitive count that will allow scientists to accurately assess threats from invasive species, habitat conversion, and climate change.

Next they will establish three outdoor carnivorous plant habitats and three mobile carnivorous plant nurseries that will allow children in eight schools to discover ways that research into these species has informed discoveries in neuroscience, liquid - repellent surface materials, and medical adhesives.

However, other bird species are running out of disease - free habitat and the population numbers that would allow the evolution of resistance.

The rich habitat around Ladder Ranch allows at - risk species, such as leopard frogs and cutthroat trout, to survive and also helps healthy species thrive.

Jungle Bob's Reptile World is a true destination retailer that showcases a wide variety of species from various habitats, even allowing customers to touch and handle some of these animals through its Animal Encounters program, which is supervised by an expert staff with more 150 years of combined husbandry experience.

«SHARKS» allows you to dive into the depths with tiger sharks, great whites, oceanic whitetips and shortfin makos, all while learning about each species» habitat and the threats they face.

Chabil Mar is also ideally situated close to some of the top parks and nature reserves in the country where jaguars and other endangered species are allowed to thrive in protected habitats.

SFI is working with The Nature Conservancy North Carolina Chapter to address the quality of wild turkey habitat in that state by connecting private forests through corridors, allowing the greater room needed for wild turkeys and other important species to roam, mate and feed.

If more people are aware of how beautiful wildlife is, then hopefully they will become involved in preserving that wildlife and the habitat needed to allow those species to thrive.

Having spent tens of millions of dollars of taxpayers» money to recuperate the species, politicians are now allowing its habitat to be invaded by hundreds of wind turbines, of the kind that are killing 2,000 vultures a year in Spain (1).

It allows for the central African Mountain Gorilla, an important endangered species, to have the habitat they need to survive and thrive.

be decontaminated, improved and reclaimed by planting suitable species to enhance its natural biodiversity, or by restoring habitat «corridors» to allow animals to access wider territories and maintain genetic diversity.

Meanwhile, the abandonment of scientific perspective by some Alarmists in order to join the crusade to climate Jerusalem gives tacit permission to continue to those who are causing the real damage via habitat loss, pollution, lax procedures that allow invasive species to be introduced inappropriately, and over-hunting.

For botanical invaders, such as kudzu and another ornamental plant from Asia called Oriental bittersweet (Celastrus orbiculatus), and insect invaders, as well the diseases they may carry, climate warming associated with increases in atmospheric carbon will likely allow these species to gain footholds in habitats formerly off - limits to them.

Potentially renewable resources should be managed to conserve their long - term viability; nonrenewable resources should be extracted at rates that allow an ordered transition to alternatives; emission of waste and toxic substances must remain within the assimilative capacities of natural systems; and more - vigorous measures must be taken to preserve species, habitats, and ecosystems.