Sentences with phrase «urban habitat»

We see living roofs filtering storm water, easing the heat - island effect and providing urban habitat for native species of plants, birds and insects.
It is a large widow spider found throughout the world and commonly associated with urban habitats or agricultural areas.
Additionally, salt - tolerant trees and plants will provide a resilient urban habitat.
Niculescu uses architectural structures as instruments for exploring human activities, to investigate the current transformation of our natural environment and the evolution of urban habitats.
«Whether a species can survive in urban habitats depends on whether or not it can adapt acoustically,» says Potvin.
The Nature Museum summer camps offer children (ages 4 - 11) the opportunity to engage with and explore our local urban habitats.
«But they may have to get even more creative if geese are preferring urban habitats more than expected.»
This leads into the second major element in an ecological civilization — ecologically frugal urban habitat.
Almost 5 ″ longer, means that fewer parking spaces into which, it will fit in our constantly more crowed urban habitats.
Reconstructed dynamics of rapid extinctions of chaparral - requiring birds in urban habitat islands.
The nexus of three ecotomes — wetlands, floodplain forest, and Blackland Prairie — defines the precious character of Laguna Gloria's landscape and provides a unique urban habitat for wildlife.
Led by local landscaper and ecologist Dave Majewski and designed by Matthew Dore, a «sustainably developed and managed native urban habitat environment» has been created on the grounds of the Central Terminal.
In Chicago, the green roof we helped design for City Hall is covered with mostly native vegetation, which offers urban habitat to the butterflies and birds of the region.
The Netherlands: Stichting wAarde (Earth Value Foundation) works with youth to plant trees around Amsterdam and Utrecht, improving air quality and restoring urban habitats for wildlife.
If you're looking for a one - billion - pound law firm, you'll need to search outside New York, Los Angeles or other urban habitats where you might expect to find it.
As the deer populations grow and urban habitats continue to encroach upon rural environments, there has been an increase in deer - car collisions — over half a million a year, with a significant number of fatalities.
Now, a golden - furred native called the white - footed mouse has reclaimed Manhattan Island, apparently thanks to genetic adaptations that let it thrive in urban habitats.
«From transforming conditions for low - wage workers to identifying internet security vulnerabilities, from celebrating the African American string band tradition to designing resilient urban habitats, these new MacArthur Fellows bring their exceptional creativity to diverse people, places, and social challenges.
«Sedimentation dams are urban habitats for a range of plants and animals, but it appears these dams also contain high levels of pollutants.
The Nature Museum Summer Camp offers children ages four to eleven exciting and enriching nature - based learning experiences and the opportunity to explore our local urban habitats.
Residents» capacity to produce their community by defining the meanings of their urban habitat is one of the most crucial — and yet highly overlooked — rights to be exercised in current society.
Urban habitats are quite different to the natural environments in which birds evolved.
Rupp came to the realization that she and the rats shared the urban habitat; it was because of human behavior that the rats were thriving.
Personality, however, defined as consistent individual differences in behaviour related to exploration, caution, and neophobia, is a good behavioural candidate character to study natural selection in relation to the urban habitat due to its heritable variation.
Together with other recent studies on the same mouse populations, the new research provides one of the first known examples of a mammal adapting to urban habitats, said Harris.
Keep reading as we break down how you can turn your urban habitat and daily walking routines with your dog into an enriching and fun experience that both of you will enjoy.
The advent of motor vehicles took working animals off the streets; the advent of refrigerator eliminated raising and slaughtering animals for meat, milk, and eggs in urban habitat; spay / neuter and a rapid rise in keeping dogs and cats indoors eradicated most of the dogs and cats who were formerly at large.
In other words, the feral cats are where the mice and rats are, mostly, not where the endangered birds and marsupials are, but killing cats in urban habitats is the only way to kill as many as two million cats by 2020.
As the third instalment in Gary Hustwit's trilogy on the impact and function of design in the modern world, Urbanized is a concise exploration of the urban habitat of the Homo sapien.
Focusing on the similarities between Oslo and Istanbul, the exhibition examines how people interact with the urban habitat.
Along the way, expect to see a surprising variety of trees, wildflowers, insects, birds and other animals that have successfully adapted to their urban habitats.
For those wishing for a more intimate relationship with their urban habitat, those who want to eat as local as they can, those interested in the DIY and hunter - gatherer ethic, and those who just want to eat for free, Dandelion Hunter: Foraging the Urban Wilderness is a compelling and empowering read, and it might just have you asking your neighbors, «Can I eat your weeds?»
An ambitious restoration of Buffalo's abandoned Central Terminal has begun with the creation of an urban habitat classroom.
Case studies selected from the Urban Habitats proposals and contemporary work, by innovative designers such as Anderson Anderson, Koning Eizenberg, Office dA, Onion Flats, Zoka Zola, Pyatok, and more.
Based on the goals of «Urban Habitats,» a design competition held in 2005 by Habitat for Humanity of Greater Charlottesville and the Charlottesville Community Design Center for the redevelopment of a local trailer park, this book frames sixteen design opportunities for affordable, dense, compact, and sustainable housing.
As programs mature and new ones are added, bike - sharing could become a standard feature of the urban habitat, a must - have for any forward - thinking community.
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