Sentences with phrase «where suitable habitat»

More recently, wildlife researchers are documenting sharp declines in this aerial insectivore's prey base; even where suitable habitat exists, there may not be enough food.

Not exact matches

Mink are an introduced and highly predatory species which represents the main threat to water voles and other native wildlife where the habitat is suitable.

On average 38 percent of suitable habitat has already been lost to agriculture in this region, where some of the highest human population densities occur in Africa.

Then, comparing the environmental conditions such as climate, vegetation and human impact at these locations to sites across tropical Africa where there was an absence of apes, the researchers were able to more precisely calculate the «suitable environmental conditions» — or habitat — necessary for apes to live.

The reintroduction has been hampered by rules that require recapture of wolves who set up territories outside the narrowly defined recovery area and that do not allow release of captive wolves into New Mexico's Gila National Forest, where there's extensive suitable habitat.

About 15 million of the national human population of 23 million people live in the intensely urbanized Taipei area, at the extreme north of the island nation, where most of the dogs and cats are pets, or are descended from lost or abandoned pets, in an environment affording some suitable habitat for feral cats, but little or none for street dogs.

Looking toward the future, a warming world is going to change where habitats are suitable for disease - carrying ticks.

Those that are effectively trapped by habitat fragmentation in areas where climate changes detrimentally, even though suitable climatic habitat may exist for them elsewhere in the world.