Sentences with phrase «terrestrial species»

It has long been known that the world's forests provide refuge to the vast majority of terrestrial species, store massive amounts of carbon, safeguard many of the world's most important watersheds, and are home to numerous indigenous groups, yet forests continue to fall at staggering rates.

Tropical forests contain more than half of the Earth's terrestrial species and Southeast Asia's forests are among the richest in species.

Recent meta - analyses indicate that on average, examined terrestrial species have been moving poleward about 1.76 km / yr (reported as 17.6 + 2.9 km / decade), apparently keeping pace with regional temperature change, although species range shifts to higher elevations have on average lagged behind climate (Chen et al., 2011).

Their calculations indicated that by 2081 - 2100, most terrestrial species on the globe would need to disperse at a rate that exceeds 4 km / yr, and that nearly half of the land surface would require dispersal velocities that exceed 8 km / yr.

Although rainforests presently cover only about 2 percent of Earth's land, they harbor about half of the planet's terrestrial species, 18 and the tropics as a whole contain about two - thirds of all terrestrial animal and plant species (Pimm, 2001).

Wild species have responded to climate change, with three - quarters of marine species shifting their ranges poleward as much as 1000 km [44], [103] and more than half of terrestrial species shifting ranges poleward as much as 600 km and upward as much as 400 m [104].

Kiehl and coauthor Christine Shields focused on the dramatic events at the end of the Permian Era, when an estimated 90 to 95 % of all marine species, as well as about 70 % of all terrestrial species, became extinct.

(6/3/2007) The Amazon basin is home to the world's largest rainforest, an ecosystem that supports perhaps 30 percent of the world's terrestrial species, stores vast amounts of carbon, and exerts considerable influence on global weather patterns and climate.

Indeed, one recent study concluded that large - scale deployment of BECCS could result in a greater diminution of terrestrial species than temperature increases of 2.8 °C above pre-industrial levels.

More responsibly - managed forests means more wildlife in those habitats, where approximately 80 percent of terrestrial species live.

Ozone forms in the stratosphere, between about 10 and 50 km above the Earth and above the troposphere where terrestrial species live.

Terrestrial species are moving up in elevation at rates 2 to 3 times greater than initial estimates.

Despite faster rates of warming in terrestrial systems compared to ocean environments, the velocity of range shifts for marine taxa exceeds those reported for terrestrial species.

Leatherback eggs and hatchlings feed a myriad of terrestrial species, which in their unique ways connect to other parts of our ecosystem upon which humans and other species rely.

At least one past global hot spell widely attributed to a natural spike in greenhouse gases, the Paleocene - Eocene Thermal Maximum 55.8 million years ago, appeared to cause a mass die - off of some marine plankton, but other forms thrived, as did mammals and other terrestrial species, specialists on that period say.

Island foxes and other terrestrial species are often seen.

Probably the most common of the giants is the Argentine horned frog (Ceratophrys ornata), a more terrestrial species that also benefits from having vivid and ornate bars and spots of black, lime green and brown.

However, they typically live a completely fossorial life — aquatic species lurk in muck and terrestrial species prefer to bury themselves under moss.

Wild species have responded to climate change, with three - quarters of marine species shifting their ranges poleward as much as 1000 km [44], [103] and more than half of terrestrial species shifting ranges poleward as much as 600 km and upward as much as 400 m [104].

Sea level rise was also considered for terrestrial species.

The terrestrial species in the petition are still under status review; the aquatic species received negative findings because they have not yet been given formal scientific names.

As a result, many terrestrial species were driven to extinction.

Many marine and terrestrial species are not shifting in response to climate change as expected.

The mass extinction included the sudden loss of more than 90 percent of marine species and more than 70 percent of terrestrial species and set the stage for the rise of the dinosaurs.

In a massive extinction about 250 million years ago, 90 percent of Earth's sea creatures and up to 80 percent of its terrestrial species vanished.

Terrestrial species fared better than frogs living in wet habitats, where the fungus thrives.

«Unlike most terrestrial species, populations of whales within oceans are not isolated by geographic barriers.

«Well, it looks like pinyon is dying,» said Leland Pierce, a coordinator of terrestrial species recovery at the New Mexico Department of Fish and Game.

One way to answer the question is to see if other terrestrial species have tended toward intelligence.

Fossils from terrestrial species from this region and time period are relatively rare, thus the find helps paleontologists fill in important missing pieces about what prehistoric life was like on North American's East Coast.

Both survived the extinction event 252 million years ago, in which 75 % of terrestrial species died out.

Not exact matches

«We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook.

The pond is a documented breeding area for the eastern tiger salamander, one of the largest terrestrial salamanders in the United States and a species on the state's endangered list.

Restricted - range species are clustered into centers of endemism, like those described for terrestrial taxa.

Moreover, this theory can not account for why the island's many endemic terrestrial mammal species represent only four of Africa's broader mammal groups called orders.

«The hope is there's simpler explanations that can apply to other species, including terrestrial animals,» Payne said.

«All ants and termites are social, and they are ubiquitous across terrestrial landscapes, with thousands of described species and probably even more that we haven't yet found.»

Not only are the fish abundant and economically important, but they also serve as a keystone species in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems, according to the researchers.

Researchers have yet to find the species that can link early fishapods with fully terrestrial tetrapods.

To produce these efficiency estimates, the research team collected data on variables including feed composition, feed conversion ratios, edible portions and nutritional content of major farmed terrestrial and aquatic animal species.

The changes likely occurred as a result of a crocodilian - type lifestyle wherein aquatically adapted species floated and foraged on the surface — a lifestyle that both preceded, and prepared species for, subsequent colonization of the terrestrial realm.

But sometimes I've been doing expeditions with colleagues here to understand the ecology of some of the species and islands is one of the areas that I have been very interested to understand, the life history of birds both marine and terrestrial in islands.

In a widely cited paper in 2004, Thomas and colleagues estimated that 15 to 37 per cent of terrestrial plant and animal species will be «committed to extinction» by 2050 (Nature, vol 427, p 145).

The current extinction of many of Earth's large terrestrial carnivores has left some extant prey species lacking knowledge about contemporary predators, a situation roughly parallel to that 10,000 to 50,000 years ago, when naı̈ve animals first encountered colonizing human hunters.

A team including researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research has developed a novel methodology that, for the first time, combines 3 - D and advanced range estimator technologies to provide highly detailed data on the range and movements of terrestrial, aquatic, and avian wildlife species.

- Species in Africa and Asia as well as in freshwater and marine ecosystems were understudied, compared with terrestrial organisms in Europe and North America

42 %: terrestrial animal and plant species with known trends that have declined in population size the last decade

Indeed, in both marine and terrestrial ecosystems, the big surprise is that the incursion of alien species can actually increase, rather than decrease, biodiversity at a local level.

The terrestrial nature of these creatures is a great indicator of how biodiversity has changed in the Bahamas and what the ideal circumstances would be for these or similar species to return, said Florida Museum ornithology curator and study co-author David Steadman.

Seagrasses evolved from terrestrial plants into marine foundation species around 100 million years ago.