Sentences with phrase «total habitat area»

Restoring the connections between habitats that have been fragmented by human actions — instead of just focusing on maximizing total habitat area — is key if we want to give these butterflies a fighting chance, Oliver says.

Not exact matches

But the Antarctic krill fishery took 68 % of its total catch between 1980 and 2011 from the area of projected habitat degradation.

Coastal habitats cover less than 20 % of the total ocean area, but account for approximately half of the total carbon sequestered in ocean sediments.

Keswick Island is designated national park with a total area of 530 hectares or 1300 acres, having a majority of this dedicated as natural habitat.

If even Bjorn Lomborg sees the merits of the world spending $ 100 billion a year to address global warming, is there anyone who can find a downside to raising a grand total of $ 35 million a year (beyond money already committed by national governments) to protect 42 «source sites» — areas of tiger territory with populations that are sufficiently healthy to repopulate neighboring regions with suitable, but tiger-less, habitat?

Based on a methodology developed in a previous study that estimated wood supply on four National Forests in northern Arizona [33], we subtracted from the total area of ponderosa pine in the watersheds — 0.68 million ha (1.68 million acres)-- those areas that are typically excluded from mechanical thinning projects due to steepness, restrictions in land management, previous treatments, or considerations of soil, habitat, or wildlife conditions (Table 1).

The size of the property adequately ensures complete representations of habitats and ecological processes and the total area protected is larger than any other legally protected, single forest conservation area in mainland Southeast Asia.