Sentences with phrase «species live on land»

Nearly 6.5 million of these species live on land versus 2.2 million in the ocean, according to the analysis.

The finding supports previous research suggesting that colossal volcanic eruptions in what's now Siberia, about 300,000 years before the onset of the extinction event, probably triggered the die - off of nearly all marine species and two - thirds of species living on land (SN: 9/19/15, p. 10).

Not exact matches

I challenged David Cameron to stop the badger cull not only due to rising costs, animal welfare concerns and public anger, but also because of widespread criminal activity, which threatens the future of a species which is protected by law and has lived on this land for 300,000 years.

Illegal and counter-productive gassing operations are threatening a species which has lived on this land for 300,000 years.

7, No. 4, 1995), noted that technologically communicating species «may live on the land or in the sea or air.

To learn more about how these groups of land mammals took on their characteristic girth when they turned aquatic, the researchers compiled body masses for 3,859 living and 2,999 fossil mammal species from existing data sets.

The group points out that otters, which took to the water more recently, don't follow that trend, perhaps because many otter species still live much of their lives on land.

Two hundred and fifty million years ago, the Permian extinction wiped out virtually all marine species and most life on land, clearing the path for the dinosaurs and setting back the rise of mammals by 50 million years.

At the conclusion of their book, For the Common Good, Herman Daly and John B. Cobb Jr. find hope in thinking that «on a hotter planet, with lost deltas and shrunken coastlines, under a more dangerous sun, with less arable land, more people, fewer species of living things, a legacy of poisonous wastes, and much beauty irrevocably lost, there will still be the possibility that our children's children will learn at last to live as a community among communities.»

The species was thought to live mostly on land, but it may actually live in the canopy, high above the forest floor.

Given that in biology many phyla, families and genera have some species that live in the sea and others that live on land, marine biology classifies species based on the environment rather than on taxonomy.

Roads, for example, appear to directly affect only a relatively small strip of land, but they also cut ecosystems in half, altering the survival prospects of species living on either side of them.

Researchers led by biologist Gabriele Gentile of the University of Rome Tor Vergata have discovered a new species of land iguana living in the Galápagos that Darwin missed but may shed light on evolution.

And for aquatic species, whose threats often come from activities taking place on land far from where they live, land use management may prove just as important as protecting their habitat.

Meanwhile, Elias and others discovered the presence of certain beetle species that live only in specific temperature zones, suggesting that the temperatures on the land bridge during that time would have been relatively mild compared to other regions.

Researchers at the University of Birmingham have discovered that the mass extinction seen in plant species caused by the onset of a drier climate 307 million years ago led to extinctions of some groups of tetrapods, the first vertebrates to live on land, but allowed others to expand across the globe.

Instead, in these groups around one in every four or five species is estimated to be at a heightened risk of extinction, whether they live on land or in the sea.

An analysis of bioluminescent species suggests those living on land are tens of millions of years old — a fraction of the age of bioluminescing marine groups

The intact fossil of a new scorpion species shows that the animals could have evolved for life on land earlier than thought

An analysis of species distributions in North America, unveiled here on 18 June at the annual meeting of the Society for Conservation Biology, suggests that randomly picking imperiled species — rather than focusing on particular ones — protects as many life - forms in less land.

Yesterday, representatives from the National Park Service, which manages land on which many of the U.S.'s nearly 400 endangered vertebrate species live, visited the lab to sign an agreement with the museum to allow for storage of DNA samples from these species in the chilly facilities.

Heating of 1 degree Celsius would have a smaller impact on metabolism for a cold - blooded, land - dwelling species that lives in the Arctic than on one that lives in the tropics, his study shows.

The Channa andrao snakehead, which breathes atmospheric air and can live on land for four days at a time, is one of more than 200 species discovered between 2009 and 2014, as detailed in a report this month by the World Wildlife Federation.

As one of most southerly - distributed seabirds, the Adà© lie is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast that except during spring when they come on land to breed, are highly reliant on the sea and its ice to hunt and live.

Beringia land bridge serving as an intercontinental meeting point Surprisingly, several bear species which nowadays live on different continents have also taken part in the mating and thus gene exchange.

Originally designed to live on land, marine mammals are a diverse, charismatic group of animals that include more than 120 species.

Soil and rocks on the Earth's surface reveal the advance and retreat of glaciers over the land surface, and fossilized pollen traces out rough boundaries of where the climate conditions were right for different species of plants and trees to live.

That is, protect imperiled species — wildlife categorized as endangered, threatened or species of special concern — living on land owned or managed by the FWC.

Floating islands covered with native plants serve as «biodiversity «life rafts»» for aquatic species, while aerial sculptures give hawks, owls, and eagles a safe place to roost and nest «in areas where taking off and landing on older power poles may result in electrocution, or areas where human disturbance may make nesting difficult.»

Life on land: The protected forest provides valuable habitat for threatened species, such as lions, leopards and sable and roan antelopes.

Soil and rocks on the Earth's surface reveal the advance and retreat of glaciers over the land surface, and fossilized pollen traces out rough boundaries of where the climate conditions were right for different species of plants and trees to live.

There are a lot of large antelope species that live in such places, and until you learn how to gather grains and bake bread, humans in arid lands likely thrived by being able to eat meat on the hoof.

Life on land: The natural rainforests in the Amazon region are an extremely biodiverese habitat home to many endangered species.

As one of most southerly - distributed seabirds, the Adà© lie is a species of penguin common along the entire Antarctic coast that except during spring when they come on land to breed, are highly reliant on the sea and its ice to hunt and live.

Life on land: This forest conservation project protects habitats for an irreplaceable wealth of animal and plant species, many of which are threatened by extinction.

The project re-establishes long - lived forest species on land historically used for agricultural purposes and was motivated by the restoration of historical forest conditions for areas where certain conditions prohibit their natural renewal.

We know that eight out of 10 species found on land live in forests.

Species that depend on the sea are reacting more quickly to global warming than land - based life, according to a study in scientific journal Nature Climate Change, with implications for fisheries and food supplies.

There are many other human - induced stresses on life, including land conversion with habitat destruction, species overharvesting, homogenization of biota, and ubiquitous toxins, which must be dealt with, yet global warming caused by fossil fuel burning may be a unique threat because of the millennial time scale of anthropogenic carbon within surface carbon reservoirs.

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The Great Lakes are the world's largest group of freshwater bodies, hosting a large number of species within their waters and on their shores, but also sustaining life over large areas of North - America thanks to their tributaries» impact on land ecosystems.