Sentences with phrase «surrounding habitat»

Protected areas are not sufficient for nature conservation, especially for migratory species (e.g. birds) because surrounding habitats are agricultural lands which often create negative externalities.

The data also allowed the Santa Cruz Land Trust to figure out what surrounding habitat to protect.

On mainlands, areas of high biodiversity that are isolated from surrounding habitats can respond like «terrestrial islands» to introduced species.

It was also noted70 that in Germany organic farmers took specific measures to increase the habitat diversity (hedges, low - input orchards, ponds, corridors, habitat networks, wildlife refuges and devices) as well as to better connect farmed areas and the surrounding habitats.

Shannon Buckley Luepold of the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry and her colleagues spent two years collecting data on Rusty Blackbirds nests and their surrounding habitat in Maine and New Hampshire, and uncovered a web of connections between timber harvesting practices, spruce and fir cones, red squirrels, and Rusty Blackbird nesting success.

Help make the work lighter — and more joyful — by joining us to move hundreds of cubic yards of trail surfacing, build fences to protect the surrounding habitat, and decommission social trails.

Details of the precise locations for most tallest trees were not announced to the general public for fear of causing damage to the trees and the surrounding habitat.

Over 25 species of birds are found on Blackbird Caye alone, and the surrounding habitat serves as a feeding and resting area for dolphins.

Over 25 species of birds are found on Blackbird and the surrounding habitat serves as a feeding and resting area for dolphins.

The spaciously set tented suites have been constructed to correspond with the surrounding habitat, whilst guaranteeing privacy and romance.

However, despite the overt connotations of this subject matter, the somewhat mythical manner in which Olowska depicts the orangutans and their surrounding habitat also infuses as sense of amaranthine resistance.

The team behind the research believe that disruption to bird species can be minimised by choosing suitable sites and because of the damage humans already cause to marine environments, the wind farm is a relatively benign influence on its surrounding habitats.

These sustainable design innovations, co-founded by William McDonough, are intended to enable the building to help restore, heal, and support the surrounding habitat while also stimulating the neighborhood's economy by bringing in an estimated 100 manufacturing jobs.

Areas of land that have been polluted or depleted can no longer support a diverse ecosystem, so greater pressure is put on surrounding habitats, and plants and wildlife are forced to compete in smaller areas.

However, the river's fish population and the surrounding habitat have been threatened, particularly by settlement and landslide problems.