Sentences with phrase «where human disturbance»

Floating islands covered with native plants serve as «biodiversity «life rafts»» for aquatic species, while aerial sculptures give hawks, owls, and eagles a safe place to roost and nest «in areas where taking off and landing on older power poles may result in electrocution, or areas where human disturbance may make nesting difficult.»

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In a study of New Jersey pine - oak forest, Winfree was surprised to find that bee populations are more abundant and diverse near sites of human disturbance — where backyard gardens or farm fields add to the range of blossoms available.

A new study from across British Columbia shows that fish diversity in seagrass meadows is lower where there is more human disturbance.

The results show this complex interaction chain is maintained by the relative lack of human disturbance in the better protected parts of the atoll, whereas in regions where native trees have been replaced by human - propagated palm trees, the chain readily breaks down.

The better way of looking at the issue is to take as the starting point a stationary carbon cycle where large volumes of carbon are moving around all the time and consider the human contribution as a disturbance to this system.