Sentences with phrase «square kilometers»

For example, the grey - winged cotinga is currently listed as «vulnerable» with a habitable range of some 3300 square kilometers in the forested mountains northeast of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The grizzlies now roam over 65,000 square kilometers (25,000 square miles) of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, with only about a fifth of the population inside the national park at its core.

To quantify spatio - temporal patterns of reef use for three species of shark, the authors of this study analyzed data from acoustic transmitters placed on 18 sharks — 6 lemon sharks, 10 tiger sharks, and 2 Caribbean reef sharks — that were tracked with acoustic receivers covering an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers near the island of St. Thomas.

Towers can vary in their coverage areas from 5 square kilometers to 100 square kilometers.

After all, the roughly 1,200 square kilometers of land on which New York sits is now valued at around $ 600 billion, much more than the total cost of building the Big Apple.

Its latest target: 10,000 square kilometers of the equatorial Pacific, 600 kilometers west of the Galápagos — by far the most ambitious and controversial iron - seeding plan yet.

Hansen's data indicate that forest is continuing to be lost at high rates (about 1.5 million square kilometers, or 371 million acres, per year).

In particular, vast expanses of continuous coral cover, extending for tens of square kilometers, exist in many sites in the «Au'au channel off the southwest side of Maui.

But the best habitat — about 7 square kilometers of low - land forest — is not protected, and villagers sometimes kill orangutans that raid gardens.

«Soper... would have cleaned up this entire island of fewer than 200 square kilometers within a few months,» he lamented.

For most of May Chris Darimont, an environmental scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, poured liters of fermented cattle blood mixed with pureed rotten fish guts on 3,000 square kilometers of British Columbia's coastal wilderness.

Overall, these findings mean that the three California amphibian species will become critically endangered — defined as inhabiting less than 100 square kilometers — by 2100.

They now span a habitat of more than 390 square miles (1,000 square kilometers) through southern Florida, including much of Everglades National Park.

In May six nations in Southeast Asia, with technical support from the Nature Conservancy, WWF and Conservation International, committed to the Coral Triangle Initiative, which will protect 75,000 square kilometers of coastline, coral reefs and ocean.

Palau's waters are home to over 1,000 species of tropical fish, and their new national marine sanctuary will cover approximately 600,000 square kilometers, an area about the size of France or Texas.

Put another way, this humongous fungus would encompass 1,665 football fields, or nearly four square miles (10 square kilometers) of turf.

The team found that the five - week eruption supplied enough dissolved iron to increase the number of phytoplankton cells within a region of the North Atlantic stretching across 570,000 square kilometers — or 220,000 square miles, about the size of France.

In contrast, brown bears, with a minimum range of 0.5 square kilometers, spent only 10 % of the day pacing and had negligible infant mortality.

Each OCO - 2 reading will sample a column of the atmosphere above roughly 3 square kilometers of Earth's surface — much smaller than the 85 - square - kilometer footprint of a similar Japanese probe, the Greenhouse Gases Observing Satellite (GOSAT), which launched in 2009 and is still operating.

It has an area of 2.5 million square kilometers (about a quarter of the U.S. landmass) and an average elevation of over 4,500 meters.

At its largest, ancient Oahu would have measured about 1900 square kilometers (about 20 % larger than modern - day Oahu) or larger.

The lake has been reduced from approximately 25,000 square kilometers in 1963 to only 1,350 square kilometers today.

Using a helicopter for just 20 hours of flight time in April 2012, a consortium put together by Evans imaged 370 square kilometers of terrain, encompassing Angkor and two nearby temple complexes, Phnom Kulen and Koh Ker.

In recent fieldwork in Colorado's Rocky Mountain National Park, Wohl studied the wetlands and floodplains upstream of beaver dams — areas collectively called «beaver meadows» — along 27 streams draining watersheds covering more than 700 square kilometers.

Before Europeans settled North America, as many as 400 million beavers inhabited an area covering about 15 million square kilometers (about 60 % of the continent).

Paulo Moutinho, a senior climate researcher at the Amazon Environmental Research Institute in Brasilia, says 2030 is «too late» to stop deforestation, and that the current level of 5000 square kilometers being cleared per year is still too high to preserve ecosystem services.

It expands the territory of the wolves fourfold from 18,679 square kilometers (the size of the Blue Range Wolf Recovery Area in the 1998 regulations) to 398,477 square kilometers.

Now, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has proposed designating a vast area — more than 906,000 square kilometers — off Alaska as protected habitat for the seals.

Covering approximately 3.3 million square kilometers (just over 2 million square miles), these areas were sampled using research vessel bottom trawl surveys that collected 60,394 samples between 1968 and 2011.

Together with former PhD - student Ylva - li Blanck of the Norwegian University of Life Science, researchers Jørund Rolstad and Ken Olaf Storaunet collected and analyzed 459 wood samples from old, fire - damaged pine tree stumps, snags, downed logs and living trees in 74 square kilometers (28 square miles) study area in Trillemarka - Rollagsfjell nature reserve.

Covering 1.59 million square miles (4.12 million square kilometers), this summer's sea ice shattered the previous record for the smallest ice cap of 2.05 million square miles (5.31 million square kilometers) in 2005 — a further loss of sea ice area equivalent to the states of California and Texas combined.

Whereas the 12 resident elephants had home ranges of 282 square kilometers, the relocated elephants had areas that averaged 1090 square kilometers.

Strapping a laser altimeter — a device used to measure vertical height — to the belly of an airplane, the team flew over 67 glaciers covering 90,000 square kilometers in the Alaskan mountains.

A: The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) announced this week that the sea ice surrounding Antarctica reached its maximum extent — its widest halo around the continent — in 2014 on 22 September: more than 20 million square kilometers, which also set a record for the highest extent of sea ice around the continent since satellite measurements began in the late 1970s.

Sardinia (right) alone has five such species, most with ranges smaller than 500 square kilometers.

The new research solves this mystery by connecting the atmospheric waves to vibrations of the Ross Ice Shelf — the largest ice shelf in the world with an area of almost half a million square kilometers (188,000 miles), roughly the size of France.

September 2012: Arctic sea ice reaches a record new low of 3.4 million square kilometers.

Between 2000 and 2012, the world lost more forest area than it gained, according to U.S. Forest Service researchers and partners who estimated a global net loss of 1.71 million square kilometers of forest — an area about two and a half times the size of Texas.

Physicists will deploy 400 more loosely spaced detectors to stretch TA's area to about 2500 square kilometers — twice the area of New York City — says Yoshiki Tsunesada, a physicist and TA team member at the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

This year, sea ice extent in the Arctic was the sixth lowest on record, at 5 million square kilometers on 17 September.

The impact that formed a large basin known as Orientale in the western area of the moon's near side, which the group investigated in detail, obliterated all prior craters within the basin itself, an area of nearly 700,000 square kilometers.

Antarctic sea ice extent reached a record high this year on 22 September, topping 20 million square kilometers for the first time since 1979, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center.

«RSPO certification has saved 21 square kilometers of Indonesian forests that would have been deforested,» said co-lead author Heilmayr, an assistant professor in UCSB's environmental studies program.

The data revealed that the Gourma elephants traverse a vast home range of 32,000 square kilometers — the largest range recorded for elephants — in their search for food and water.

But it also overwrote parts of the cratering record up to 500 kilometers away from the basin, reducing crater counts over an area of roughly three million square kilometers, or about 8 percent of the lunar surface.

A 3 - year field study in Yellowstone National Park, published in 2003, revealed that wolves there each month abandon between 85 and 156 kilograms of meat for every 100 square kilometers of their range, or between one - third and two - thirds the average amount left by pumas.

Ten European species, including five on Sardinia in Italy, each live in an area smaller than 5000 square kilometers, and a species named Calotriton arnoldi makes its home in less than 10 square kilometers in a Spanish nature park.

Earlier this month — on 17 March — the extent of Arctic sea ice peaked at nearly 15 million square kilometers, covering an area roughly twice the size of Australia.

The expansion will also make TA almost as big as its rival, the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina, which has 1600 particle detectors of a different design spread over 3000 square kilometers.

In 1972, 308 square kilometers around the reservoir were made into the Udawalawe National Park.