Sentences with phrase «suitable habitat for»

Prepared final report for possibility of endangered species designation, determined suitable habitat for future conservation.

If on the other hand the moderately impacted land used in organic agriculture made it a suitable habitat for several important native species of wildlife that are threatened by conventional agriculture, then perhaps it would be ok to use a little more land for agriculture.

The recent photograph, captured in November 2009, suggests that Arizona still provides suitable habitat for the cat, which is endangered throughout its range.

Suitable habitat for the Asian Tiger Mosquito, which can transmit West Nile and other vector - borne diseases, is expected to increase in the Northeast from the current 5 % to 16 % in the next two decades and from 43 % to 49 % by the end of the century, exposing more than 30 million people to the threat of dense infestations by this species.48

As ocean temperatures continue to rise, the range of suitable habitat for many commercially important fish and shellfish species is projected to shift northward.

Scarano focused on direct threats such as the Belo Monte dam project, as well as successful experiments at restoration, including efforts to revive degraded land using novel techniques, which in some places include planting non-native tree species as a way to create zones that provide suitable habitat for native seedlings to take hold.

The national park offers a suitable habitat for domestic as well as migratory birds.

About 15 million of the national human population of 23 million people live in the intensely urbanized Taipei area, at the extreme north of the island nation, where most of the dogs and cats are pets, or are descended from lost or abandoned pets, in an environment affording some suitable habitat for feral cats, but little or none for street dogs.

No matter how tastefully a Manhattan duplex is decorated, it isn't a suitable habitat for half a dozen Gentoo penguins.

Under scenario RCP8.5 and throughout the century, multi-directional shifts increased the areas of suitable habitat for temperate WRs, whereas tropical WRs experienced shifts toward high latitudes and significant retraction at low latitudes.

After roving for approximately a Mars year (almost two Earth years) and sampling dust, sand, rocks and atmosphere at the Gale Crater landing site, Curiosity has found the strongest evidence to date that the very early Mars environment could have provided a suitable habitat for life as we know it.

This highly inaccessible island outcrop has very few areas of suitable habitat for the remaining population of stick insects.

As their intake of displaced orang - utans increases, and as suitable habitat for reintroductions declines, there have been suggestions that they hybridize Bornean orang - utan subspecies — either in isolated, «mixed» populations, or within existing wild populations.

In fact, it was suspected that the Mediterranean might not be a suitable habitat for dispersing lionfish larvae, the researchers reported in the study.

According to research by the U.S. Forest Service's Pacific Southwest Research Station and its collaborators, for pools within alpine meadows to be suitable habitat for laying eggs and sustaining tadpoles, little things mean a lot.

This would at least preserve some suitable habitat for monkeys that live in the country, he said.

«Ice - free areas make for small patches of suitable habitat for plants and animals — like islands in a sea of ice,» she said.

It can be challenging to find a suitable habitat for bald eagles in a city, but the advantage of an urban reintroduction, he says, is that more people can enjoy the birds and be educated by their presence.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

She helps operate the car - sized Curiosity rover, which is now prowling the planet, examining its rocks to see whether it is, or was ever, a suitable habitat for life.

The warming of the lake has reduced the suitable habitat for those species by 38 percent since the 1940s, the team found.

Climate models showed that the cooler, drier Bahamian weather would have provided suitable habitat for these species.

However, there could be a silver lining in that degraded forests, once considered unsuitable, may actually be a suitable habitat for the apes.

In the colon, the mucus layer is divided into a loose outer layer that provides a suitable habitat for bacteria, allowing us to benefit from them, and an inner layer that acts as a protective barrier.

At the ecosystem level, the maintenance of natural areas within and around organic fields and absence of chemical inputs create suitable habitats for wildlife.

The results of the study show that tetrapod diversity decreased after the rainforest collapse and the onset of drier conditions, largely due to the reduction in suitable habitats for amphibians which needed wet environments to survive.

First, they refined the potentially suitable habitats for each species according to the elevations that those birds prefer to live at.

In Surviving Mars, players will lead a colonization effort on the surface of Mars, from the very first rovers and supply drops to the construction of suitable habitats for brave settlers from Earth.

Not exact matches

«We offered yesterday to take possession of the deer and transport it to a suitable habitat,» said Sean Mahar, a spokesman for the department.

This is often abandoned after a few years because it is not really suitable for this purpose, but the destruction of forest cover and animal habitat has long - lasting consequences.

We have not seen any large - scale research that shows one approach to be clearly superior to another, however, and we suspect that growers in different regions and habitats have good options for cultivation that are most suitable to those regions and habits.

The event provided a small short term increase in habitat access, contributed to a flow regime (providing flow variability and hydraulic diversity) that is suitable for non flow cued fish species to spawn, and provided water to the central reed beds of the Great Cumbung Swamp.

In addition to the volume released from Hume Dam, return flows and the Commonwealth's 151 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border to meet environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes and Coorong, and provide suitable habitat conditions (both salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation species.

In addition to this volume released from Hume Dam and the volume approved for the Coorong, return flows and the Commonwealth's 134 GL of held South Australian allocation were delivered directly to the South Australian border for meeting environmental demands in the Lower River Murray, particularly for maintaining connectivity between the Lower Lakes Coorong and providing suitable habitat conditions (salinity and water levels) in the Coorong for estuarine fish and vegetation species.

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

provide habitat that is suitable for supporting increased abundance and diversity of waterbirds within the Ral Ral floodplain.

In the long term, the species requires more habitat, which perhaps could be accomplished by making the adjacent federal land in Siuslaw National Forest suitable for martens.

But once we're on that projected path, there are certain measures that we can help species to get to certain habitats that might be more suitable for them,» she said.

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 deaFor 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 deafor suitable habitat — a place that offers adequate food, breeding opportunities, and shelter — is the difference between life and death.

The evidence, says Orians, is that our visual environment profoundly influences our physical and mental health, much as a suitable habitat makes for healthier animals in the zoo.

This reproduction strategy lets corals spread rapidly to more suitable habitats without needing to wait for genetic mutations that make it hardier in the face of change.

More animals will lose suitable habitat than will gain it, with those animals especially adapted to the coldest water on Earth (for example in the Weddell and Ross Sea) losing out the most.

However, the amount of suitable habitat, for instance areas with clear water, is limited.

«Due to the complexity of threats we have identified in this study, conservation efforts in Michigan should prioritize both protecting the highly suitable mussel habitats that are left, and identifying any additional populations in under - sampled areas of the state,» said Wesley Daniel, a former research associate in Infante's Aquatic Landscape Ecology Lab, and now Cherokee Nation Technologies contractor for U.S. Geological Survey in Gainesville, FL..

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.

Then, comparing the environmental conditions such as climate, vegetation and human impact at these locations to sites across tropical Africa where there was an absence of apes, the researchers were able to more precisely calculate the «suitable environmental conditions» — or habitat — necessary for apes to live.

Great - ape watchers may have become accustomed to reading about habitat loss and population declines, and indeed, researchers have previously engaged in a range of site - specific efforts and landscape surveys aimed at assessing the decline of suitable environmental conditions for African great apes.

Siler and colleagues found that current laws in the Philippines protect less than 10 % of existing habitats that are suitable for sailfin dragons.

The Veeries» choice to nest in non-native shrubs wasn't bad for them after all — instead, they were just taking advantage of a new suitable habitat.

Although bottom waters might be a refuge for cool - water fish species, hypoxia can force fish to seek less suitable habitats.