Sentences with phrase «with habitat fragmentation»

However, even for such species, the interaction of climate change with habitat fragmentation may cause the extirpation of many populations.

With habitat fragmentation, the wall could cut off ocelot, as well as black bear, populations in Texas and Mexico from other members of their species, leaving some populations too small to persist.

Not exact matches

Your article on the study of habitat fragmentation in Borneo carried out in co-operation with loggers states that 75,000 hectares...

«They give the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service a place at the table for siting decisions; they help protect sites with high potential risk for birds; and they minimize habitat fragmentation.»

Their arrival adds insult to injury for the lizards, whose habitat has already undergone fragmentation, because the Argentine intruders have made it quite clear that they won't share their habitat with the ants the lizards like to eat: the territorial creatures have killed and displaced ants 10 times their size.

In a letter publishing Monday in Frontiers of Ecology and the Environment, Norma Fowler and Tim Keitt, both professors in the Department of Integrative Biology, examine what would happen if more of Texas» roughly 1,200 miles of border with Mexico were to be walled off, contributing to habitat destruction, habitat fragmentation and ecosystem damage.

Yet Idaho wildlife officials say habitat destruction and fragmentation linked to human activities are the greatest threats to the sage - grouse, with predation ranking 12 among 19 factors that contribute to the bird's decline.

Your article on the study of habitat fragmentation in Borneo carried out in co-operation with loggers states that 75,000 hectares of primary forest in Sabah is being cleared to develop oil - palm plantations (22 October, p 7).

The finding, reported in today's Nature, suggests that although fig trees may require a relatively large area to reproduce successfully, they also may be better than other trees at coping with isolation or habitat fragmentation.

«Small population sizes and habitat fragmentation are well known threats to animals with limited mobility, but the impacts of these factors are hard to observe in wild populations,» said Forero - Medina, Species and Science Director for WCS's Colombia Program and a study co-author.

Our study shows that in addition to habitat fragmentation, the addition of human - made structures benefit ravens, whereas some species of raptors like the Ferruginous Hawk have been impacted and limited in nesting areas,» said study lead author Peter Coates, an ecologist with the USGS Western Ecological Research Center.

This time period coincides with an ∼ 60 % demographic decline for horses inferred using PSMC analyses (Fig. 3A), potentially resulting from ongoing fragmentation of horse habitats around that time.

A slew of factors associated with human activity threaten our natural landscapes, such as conversion of forests to agriculture, habitat fragmentation, and chemical contamination.

«The primary threat to the Key Largo woodrat,» explains a 1999 USFWS report (which, admittedly, includes feral cats among the «other threats associated with human encroachment»), «is habitat loss and fragmentation caused by increasing urbanization.»

Other anthropogenic changes like habitat destruction and fragmentation also make it less likely that ecosystems can cope with climate change by shifting.

«Those remaining would face increased threats from encroachment, conflicts with humans and extensive habitat fragmentation,» said Gaveau.

The IPCC also reports that the resilience of many ecosystems around the world is likely to be exceeded this century by an unprecedented combination of climate change; disturbances associated with climate change, such as flooding, drought, wildfire, and insects; and other global change - drivers, including land - use changes, pollution, habitat fragmentation, urbanization, and growing human populations and economies.

Rights - of - way on public lands result in landscape and habitat fragmentation, while coal combustion produces a number of gaseous byproducts, including CO2, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and methane — which exacerbate climate change and are associated with ground - level ozone (smog), air pollution, and acid rain.

This extent of habitat destruction and fragmentation means that even if individuals of a species can move fast enough to cope with ongoing climate change, they will have difficulty dispersing into suitable areas because adequate dispersal corridors no longer exist.

Climate change is also predicted to interact with other drivers of biodiversity change such as habitat destruction and fragmentation, or the introduction of foreign species.