Sentences with phrase «species living»

«I had this aha moment that if every single person on Earth could see the reef and the connections of hundreds of species living together and how fragile that ecosystem is, maybe people would want to protect it,» she says.

The Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 (CBD 2014), while finding some improvements in temperate and developed parts of the world and the ongoing enlargement of the protected - area estate, also presented evidence of climate - induced effects on biodiversity; the increased spread of diseases and invasive biota; declines in species living in forests, reefs, and many other habitats; and the conversion of ecosystems supporting many kinds of life to ones with singular human uses.

With some species living only a few hours, the fleeting flies mate and drop dead, providing nourishment to all kinds of other aquatic life.

The currently accepted taxonomy is based on the List of Prokaryotic names with Standing in Nomenclature (LPSN)[2] and National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)[3] and the phylogeny is based on 16S rRNA - based LTP release 106 by The All - Species Living Tree Project.

Like many species living on the island of Borneo, Miller's grizzled langurs have been threatened for decades from poaching and the loss of their habitat due to slash and burn agriculture.

PLANT species living high in the Alps are climbing farther up their summits to escape the heat of a warming climate, but they risk going extinct when they run out of mountain, a study has found.

Just as it's next to impossible for people to picture the world without themselves in it (except for George Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life), nor can we picture this planet without our species living here.

Therefore, the community of species living in hypoxic areas will shift.

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

Light - coloured whale species living in polar regions, such as beluga, may suffer short - term damage to vision and immune systems, and increased risk of disease and reproductive failure.

A species living on a liquid - cheese planet will think we're incompetent and don't know Absolute Zero, but that's their problem.

The important question is: How many of additional species living lonely lives in their isolated patches (the 5 %) would become extinct eventually because their population sizes are too small to be viable?

There is no sharp line between humans and the rest of the species living here in this world.

In the jungle of life there is neither a king nor a kingdom but many interrelated species living in association for their struggle to survive.

Your analogy of our species living like teens over the last few centuries is right on.

After the meal a presentation on Sea Turtles was shared with the guests, mentioned the species living in our oceans, behavioral traces, reproduction and some concern regarding population reduction.

Great underwater scenery, and a great place for macro photography — Living around the soft corals you can find critters including pygmy seahorses, decorator crabs, and many small commensal species living with crinoids.

On the other hand, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area yet another splendid destination with sights of the uncommon black rhino, the Big Five plus a varied of bird species all living on the floor of the stunning crater.

There are hundreds of rare and endangered species living in the waters of the Indian Ocean.

With over 3,500 species living in the Indonesian underwater world, there is one of the richest diversities of marine life to be found in this Indo - Pacific region.

There are over 850 plant species and 326 animal species living in Sian Ka'an all together.

Plumb and his volunteers were part of a bold effort called a «bioblitz» — a 24 - hour inventory of every species living in the 116 - square - mile area.

Introduction There are over 3,500 marine species living in the reefs and seas of Indonesia.

There are over 3,500 marine species living in the reefs and seas of Indonesia.

Thousands of Scientists, Naturalists, Students and Volunteers to Participate in 24 - Hour Event to Discover and Record Species Living in National Parks in Marin, San Francisco and San Mateo Counties more

The Gili Islands in Indonesia are a very popular tourist destination and boast over 6,000 different marine life species living just offshore.

The nearby marshlands of S'Albufera Natural Park are great for bird watching, with over 200 species living in the area.

You're two species living side - by - side, but you are the one that makes the rules.

The different animal species living in their natural (once pristine) environment tend to live seven times past their age of maturity when nature is in balance.

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Researchers have found seven new animal species living along the Southwest Indian Ridge, 3,000 metres beneath the surface of the ocean, in an area targeted for deep - sea mining.

Ecologists studying the relationships within ecosystems have found that species living in polluted environments do better when they include a greater variety of organisms.

There could be three evolutionary processes could explain this adaptive radiation of hominins: 1) the occupation of novel niches for species living in a highly productive but spatially constrained region when there are deep fresh water lakes in the EARS [46] and 2) the lakes themselves creating spatial structure producing population isolation and vicariance and 3) repeated periods of increased resource availability stimulated adaptation and radiation followed by periods of environmental stress when the lakes rapidly dried up imposing strong selection pressures [28].

In general, research from this and other groups suggests it is better to have a high diversity of bacterial species living in the gut.

Fossil evidence shows that about 70 percent of species living on Earth at the time became extinct [source: NASA].

This apelike ancestor, which probably lived 5 to 11 million years ago in Africa, gave rise to two distinct lineages, one resulting in hominids — humanlike species — and the other resulting in the great ape species living today.

Scientists worry that might threaten biodiversity, or the number of species living in a region.

For Coleman, the research highlights that biological systems transcend political boundaries and that current management practices need to be developed in coordination with other countries in order to protect grouper and other species living in the Gulf.

So how do scientists explain a species living for so long without evolving?

Applying biomechanical formulae to a treasure trove of thousands of fossilized leaves of angiosperms — flowering plants excluding conifers — the team was able to reconstruct the ecology of a diverse plant community thriving during a 2.2 million - year period spanning the cataclysmic impact event, believed to have wiped out more than half of plant species living at the time.

Reinforcement can occur when two species living in the same environment mate and produce inferior, hybrid offspring.

As scientists collect more genetic data, they are beginning to realize that there is not one river dolphin, but multiple species living in isolated basins in the Amazon.

Pikas, which include about 30 species all living at different altitudes, have likely evolved special adaptations for living where they do.

At a recent meeting in Gibraltar, however, some researchers held that recently redated fossils from a cave in Spain paint a more complicated picture, with two or more ancient human species living side by side in Europe for thousands of years.

Their results confirm, in all three groups, that species living in regions with greater temperature variability have both greater environmental tolerances and wider ranges — both in terms of latitude and altitude.

The DNA in seawater can reveal the diversity and abundance of fish species living in ocean waters.

In addition, more than one - third of the marine species living in the state's Puget Sound are calcifiers (shell - builders), meaning they could be especially sensitive to rising acidity.

That means that two different species living in the same ecosystem could have very different reactions to a temperature increase.

«Not only is this the first study to associate fungi and liver disease,» said senior author Bernd Schnabl, MD, associate professor of gastroenterology at UC San Diego School of Medicine, «we might be able to to slow the progression of alcoholic liver disease by manipulating the balance of fungal species living in a patient's intestine.»

Judging from how many new species they found each time they lowered their device 7,000 feet onto the continental slope off New Jersey, Grassle and Maciolek estimated that there were up to 10 million animal species living on the ocean floor.