Sentences with phrase «species occur in the area»

A floristic analysis of the Gramineae of Brazil's Distrito Federal and a list of the species occurring in the area.

A number of reptile and amphibian species occur in the area, including the sensitive boreal toad and northern leopard frog.

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Even though we knowtoday that species occur rapidly following a ass extinction, the opposite of Nye's understanding of science, there remains the oxymoron of rapid, or random mutation evolution Dr. Gould's work in the area of random mutation evolution was very popular until the human genome project proved that Dog is Man's closest genome relatve.

In the Ozarks, glades often help to preserve isolated communities of cacti and other desert and prairie species that dominated the area during the Hypsithermal, a period of warming that occurred four to eight thousand years ago.

Understanding these unique areas is important because there are many examples of naturally occurring hybrid zones, and new hybrid zones will form in the future as climate change and human impacts cause species distributions to shift and come into contact.

The species provided clues as to where the feeding might have occurred because some species of sharks only live in specific areas.

«Many species, for example, the stored product pests, occur worldwide, but others, such as pest species of grasses including corn, can be restricted or only exist in certain geographic areas,» the scientist further explains.

In the 1680s, for example, physician Christoph Knauth, who was interested in botany, recorded the plant species that occurred in the area of the modern city of HallIn the 1680s, for example, physician Christoph Knauth, who was interested in botany, recorded the plant species that occurred in the area of the modern city of Hallin botany, recorded the plant species that occurred in the area of the modern city of Hallin the area of the modern city of Halle.

«As well as preying on the threatened species that occur in and near urban areas, these urban feral cats may provide a source of feral cats to bushland areas.»

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.

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.

But the encroachment due to sprawling of cities highlights the problem of save either one or another species, because in a restricted area often it is not possible to conserve all the species occurring inside.

«The bottom line is if you have a species with compatible relatives that occur in the same area, gene flow will occur,» she says.

Seasonal migration — which occurs when species breed in one geographical area and winter in another — is commonly hypothesized to have evolved as ancestral species native to the tropics began to shift their breeding ranges northward.

IV.Obtain direct measurements of group behavioral changes and stress hormone responses, if any, resulting from experimentally controlled simulated Navy MFAS for three delphinid species that occur in large numbers in Navy range areas, including common dolphins (Delphinus sp.), bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus), and Risso's dolphin (Grampus griseus).

Another potential feedback might occur if reduced timber yields force loggers to compensate by enlarging the amount of area harvested, resulting in higher CO2 emissions through deforestation and associated fires, as well as increased rates of habitat fragmentation / degradation and species extinctions

Conservation Status The most recent edition of the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species listed the Channel Islands slender salamander as of Least Concern since, although its Extent of Occurrence is much less than 5,000 per square kilometer, it is common and occurs in an area of extensive, suitable habitat which appears not to be under threat, it has a presumed large population, and it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category.

In more northerly transition areas, the dieback not only was clearly expressed, but occurred twice, when new dominant species replaced extant conifers, then were themselves replaced, as climate change continued.

Many of the wind farm areas occur in the migratory corridor for this endangered species, and this agreement should help minimize the effects of development on the continued recovery of right whales,» said Dr. Scott Kraus of the New England Aquarium, one of the leading authorities on the North

«The area it occurs in is infrequently visited by entomologists, and the species has long been ignored because it was thought that it was not actually a genuine species, but only a regional color variant of another well - known species.»

It occurs in a multitude of forms (mixed farms or specialized livestock keepers; species, herd size, free roaming or confined, husbandry practices), scales and degree of market orientation (subsistence, mixed subsistence / commercial, small commercial, large commercial) and locations (back yards, roof tops, peri-urban areas, urban public vacant spaces) each with its own problems and opportunities.