Sentences with phrase «type forest habitat»

The findings show that the Ellesmere Protarctos lived in a northern boreal - type forest habitat, where there would have been 24 - hour darkness in winter, as well as about six months of ice and snow.

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Under low prices, farmers anticipate clearing forest for cereal, corn, or khat crops, or large government - sponsored sun coffee farms, threatening habitats of all types.

Careful site selection for renewable facilities of all types is important to minimize the loss and fragmentation of wildlife habitat and forests that sequester carbon.

Mass Audubon successfully conserves additional land all the time — from stands of old growth forest in the Berkshires to coastal habitats on the Cape and islands to the precious salt marsh of the North Shore — and every type of habitat in between.

However, microbe diversity did not vary by forest type in the other three species, suggesting that variation was instead due to factors intrinsic to individual species and their habitats.

«Skin microbe diversity can vary with forest type and habitat in Brazilian frogs: A leaf - litter frog has twice the bacterial richness in continuous forest than in fragments.»

Lacking competition from other elk species in North America, they spread widely across many habitat types, from Pacific Northwest rain forests to sagebrush deserts.

In its native environment, the wild cat is adaptable to a variety of habitat types: savanna, open forest, and steppe.

Ecological responses to forest age, habitat, and host vary by mycorrhizal type in boreal peatlands — Peter G. Kennedy — Mycorrhiza

The reserve also includes a mosaic of coastal and marine habitats including rare littoral forests, mangroves, seagrass beds, and a diversity of coral reef types.

The reserve includes a mosaic of coastal and marine habitats including rare littoral forests, mangroves, seagrass beds, and a diversity of coral reef types.

Popular for its limestone cliffs, 50 beaches, three major marine habitats, five types of forest, and an abundant fauna and flora including over 20 endemic species, this is the ultimate must - see attraction in Palawan.

Converting both forests and peatlands for agricultural use can have major negative consequences for global climate change, because both types of habitats play an important role in carbon sequestration.

This desert woodpecker is tolerant of various habitat types within its range: broadleaf riparian groves, saguaro «forests,» and urban districts.

Komodo dragons live in three main habitat types: coastal mangroves, open savannahs, and fragmented shade forests.

These islands are volcanic in origin, and covered in many habitat types, but mainly forest and savannah.

These nests tend to be constructed more often within a fragmented deciduous forest than any other type of habitat (Jessop et al, 2004).