Sentences with phrase «think of the habitat»

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Beta carotene, plentifully found in wild chiles, is also thought to be responsible for the bright red plumage of finches, who regularly feed on wild chiles in their habitat.

And in general, we think about crimini mushrooms as a very versatile life form since it can be found growing wild in many regions of the world and in fairly diverse habitats.

But, of course, most of our work is forward - thinking and includes ambitious and exciting plans to connect people with nature and protect vital habitat in the age of climate change.

But Pontzer's team thinks the irregularity of food availability in the orang - utans» habitat in south - east Asia has led the animals to evolve an especially thrifty metabolism.

Future City: Apartments as Complete Habitats, 1932 City planning also took on new ideas, and developers began thinking in terms of convenience for apartment dwellers.

The survey investigated landowners» experiences with the habitat program and what they thought the effects of management were for their land and its wildlife.

Willerslev hopes to be part of the searches, and thinks that recreating these once - coastal habitats through DNA sequencing could prove to be a valuable tool.

They thought Methanococcus jannaschii and other archaea — microbes with similarly exotic habitats and tastes, such as a love of sulfur or salt — were just quirky bacteria.

It is thought that the high efficiency of the kit was due to mycorrhizal fungi that adhered to the items collected from the natural orchid habitat, which had a favorable effect on the growth of Gastrodia orchids.

The lineages of these groups are not restricted to extreme habitats, as was once thought common for archaeal species; rather, archaea are widespread and occur in all thinkable environments on Earth, where they can make up substantial portions of the microbial biomass.

Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) thought they had finally won a measure of respect after adopting two major revisions to their conservation strategy — setting aside more habitat and designing recovery plans for multiple species.

«I think the reduction of habitat definitely decreased their population size,» Hung says, noting something similar may explain the extinction of other outbreak species in North America, like the Rocky Mountain grasshopper in the western U.S. «Our study suggests that the combination of natural population size changes and human disturbances drove the rapid extinction of this bird.»

At this moment in world history we might think it important to determine the rate of energy flux in any habitat before we embark on radical changes in its character.

«Most of the habitat concepts that come out of strictly engineering teams look very utilitarian, and when you start thinking about putting people in there for 1,000 days it doesn't work well from a psychological perspective,» Howard says.

«As in the environment above the sea, we tend to think about movement in a horizontal dimension, across the breadth of the oceans, but at sea there are perhaps even greater habitat boundaries and gradients as species move vertically with depth.

You can think of these properties as being like an animals» habitat and appearance.

«The wild ancestors of C4 crops are thought to have grown as individuals in open habitats where the number of leaves that they produced would have been limited by water and nitrogen and most leaves would be exposed to full sunlight» said principal investigator Steve Long, Gutgsell Endowed Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

Think of bees pollinating flowers whose nectar nourishes the bees, or clownfish that fight off predators of anemones that in turn provide habitats for the clownfish.

Now we know that corals can engineer their own stable environment from nothing, and create habitats for all sorts of species in places that we thought were unsuitable for reef formation.»

The bees would have nested on open ground, so the rocks around were probably formed in an arid habitat full of flowering plants — and aren't cave rocks as previously thought.

«A lot of people think the loss or degradation of habitat is the big threat to wild animals, but here it shows there is a major threat from direct exploitation by humans,» Ripple says.

Even several species such as the red shiner and sand shiner, which were thought to be plentiful, are declining as a result of reduced stream habitat, according to Perkin, who was the lead researcher for the study and is now an assistant professor at Texas A&M University.

There are several habitats once thought to be inhospitable to even the world's most adaptable organisms — places like the core of Chile's Atacama Desert, the driest region on Earth; ice sheet plateaus in Greenland that are 10,000 feet thick; and near hydrothermal vents on the ocean floor with temperatures above 750 degrees Fahrenheit, to name a few.

Drifting seaweed, usually thought of as a nuisance, also plays a part in this process, providing an important habitat for the grazing animals that keep the seagrass clean.

Professor Poinar continues, «Mammoths were much better at adapting to new habitats than we first thought — we suspect that subgroups of mammoths evolved to deal with local conditions, but maintained genetic continuity by encountering and potentially interbreeding with each other where their two different habitats met, such as at the edge of glaciers and ice sheets.»

Scientists think that a loss of habitat — good places to live — could be one factor.

The dramatic explosion of flowering plant species that occurred about 100 million years ago was thought to have been good news for evolving mammals, providing them with new options for food and habitat.

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This will help them think about trees as a part of the habitat for local animals.

Another important consideration when thinking of acquiring goats is to be sure that you live in an area where they are allowed and where you have proper habitat to allow them to thrive happily.

In terms of bird welfare, 67 % of Gatineau residents think habitat destruction is the worst threat to birds, with pesticide exposure coming in second at 46 %, and cats in third place at 33 %.

I think environmental educators, myself included, need to be more careful, sensitive, and consistent in their explanations of habitat restoration.

Other issues include straddling stocks (relevant in the Belize / Honduras / Guatemala area), harvesting of marine resources such as sea slugs / cucumbers (which was certainly never thought of 1948), protection of mangroves, seagrass and other marine habitat, etc..

When we think of wild animals losing their habitats, we usually envision elephants, rhinos, and tigers in faraway places.

With a menagerie of fish and sea life in their natural habitat, journeying 200 metres beneath the sea will most certainly reward you with some phenomenal sights — can you really think of anything more breath - taking?

Having mainly used sea creatures in his previous formaldehyde works, Hirst embraced the strange juxtaposition that a farm animal presented, saying: «When I did the sheep I remember thinking that it might not work, because what was good about the fish was that you were putting them into their own habitat, liquid, but then with the sheep, it just had a brilliant sort of tragedy.

Featuring works by Torkwase Dyson, Lorraine O'Grady, Jade Montserrat, and Keisha Scarville, The Last Place They Thought Of considers how histories of racial, sexual, and economic exploitation shape our understanding of geography, habitat, and environmenOf considers how histories of racial, sexual, and economic exploitation shape our understanding of geography, habitat, and environmenof racial, sexual, and economic exploitation shape our understanding of geography, habitat, and environmenof geography, habitat, and environment.

Like comparing life in an intentional community versus the gridlock of a gritty city, the log hive is an intriguing design that thinks outside the box, and could provide bees with a more suitable habitat that caters to their natural tendencies, rather than working against them.

Those arguing that the fossil fuel greenhouse is unstoppable because of hard - wired human short - term greed, scientific illiteracy and failure of technological imagination may have a point, But think about this: Building seawalls, massively air conditioning new habitats inland and dealing with a flood of environmental refugees as the planet warms with take a huge chunk of additional energy in itself.

And in fact, the bottom of the sea ice is habitat for more organisms than you might think, and maybe more than anyone yet knows.

According to the Pembina Institute, a Canadian non-profit think tank that advances clean energy solutions, «95 % of woodland caribou habitat in northeastern Alberta is to be lost in order to promote oil sands development.»

We should recognize how little we know, and yet how urgent it is to think about how to map and protect some of the pristine habitats of the central Arctic basins.»

Biodiversity loss is virtually exclusively argued on the basis of habitat loss, and in particular on the loss of tropical forest (I think 90 % tropical forest loss = 50 % species loss).

I'd also like to add that as a tree - hugger myself I think it is a desperate shame that CAGW has displaced saner environmental problems that we could be dealing with namely around pollution, biodiversity loss, loss of habitats and everything else brought on by human population growth

I think we have idea of what was here before, and I do know that fire setting to improve elk and deer habitat was / is still a common practice....

Jim Steele draws on 25 years of research and habitat restoration in California's Sierra Nevada to provide thought provoking analyses that contrast the success of conservation science with the deceptive claims of global warming advocates.

Increasingly, footage is appearing of krill at depths previously thought well below their acknowledged habitat of less than 200 m.

The bad news may be even worse: the species depends critically on highly saline large lakes (Mono Lake, Great Salt Lake, etc.) for its mid-summer molt, and such habitats are widely thought to be already deteriorating because of climate change.

Fortunately, forward - thinking sportsmen began to organize for the conservation of game and game habitat.

Typically we think of mammals, reptiles and insects like butterflies that feel the strain from loss of habitat.