Sentences with phrase «suitable breeding habitat»

Creating suitable breeding habitat for the Yosemite toad can be built into those restoration plans, Barnes said.

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improve the diversity and condition of native fish, frog and waterbird populations through maintaining suitable aquatic habitat and providing opportunities for breeding and recruitment.

The key objective of this proposal is to maximise the current Murray cod spawning response by providing suitable habitat inundation and associated food resources throughout their critical breeding period (mid Oct — mid Dec).

For most animals, including humans, an instinct for suitable habitat — a place that offers adequate food, breeding opportunities, and shelter — is the difference between life and death.

Rather than searching for and counting each individual nest, researchers recorded how many oystercatchers they observed within suitable nesting habitat and then modeled the size of the breeding population from this data.

The density of females on Sea Lion Island was quite low (about 110 females per km of the coastline suitable for breeding) compared to densities recorded in other sub-Antarctic populations: this low level of crowding of females probably depends on the small population size and the abundance of sandy beaches with a gentle slope, which are the preferred breeding habitat for elephant seal.

Until breeding space becomes available, unmated individuals use marginal habitats not suitable for breeding.

Some species of marine mammals will be able to take advantage of increases in prey abundance and spatial / temporal shifts in prey distribution toward or within their primary habitats, whereas some populations of birds and seals will be adversely affected by climatic changes if food sources decline or are displaced away from regions suitable for breeding or rearing of young.