Sentences with phrase «with habitat used»

Comparative genomic analysis from 82 wild and wild - derived species grouped by microhabitat - use identified variation corresponding with one of these QTL, further supporting broad association with habitat use across the Malawi cichlid radiation.

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It's a result of a $ 17.8 million contract the company signed with NASA in 2012 to develop and test expandable habitat technology for potential use in deep space.

Ellliman has said from Day 1 that agents could use their marketing budgets to pay StreetEasy's fees, and last week Realogy — parent company of Corcoran, Citi Habitats and Sotheby's International Realty — announced a multi-year deal with Zillow to cover StreetEasy fees for its New York City agents.

Various permits are also being advanced with state and federal agencies — such as water discharge, wetlands, air quality, water use and fish habitat permits and other approvals that will give them right - of - way access.

At the same time, we would like to see not merely the preservation of existing wilderness, but changes in human habitat and land use that would allow us to share the land much more generously with other species.

Adelphia says it strives to work with suppliers that are certified sustainable or that use fishing methods that are less damaging to fish habitats, such as long - line fishing.

Organic farmers also use numerous integrative pest management techniques which promote environments that support beneficial insects such as pollinators by providing them with habitat, and use farming methods such as crop rotation which provide a diversity of nutritious floral food sources to reduce the prospect of malnutrition.

The judging panel was impressed by the breadth and depth of sustainable practices being used to conserve water and energy, maintain healthy soil, protect air and water quality, preserve wildlife habitat, and enhance relations with employees and communities, all while improving the economic vitality of vineyards and wineries.»

The committee and judging panel were impressed by the breadth and depth of sustainable practices being used to conserve water and energy, maintain healthy soil, protect air and water quality, preserve wildlife habitat, and enhance relations with employees and communities, all while improving the economic vitality of vineyards and wineries.»

Sustainable winegrowing practices help reduce water and energy use, minimize pesticide use, build healthy soil, protect air and water quality, recycle natural resources, maintain surrounding wildlife habitat, provide employee education, and communicate with neighbors about vineyard and winery operations.

Bats are highly threatened by a range of problems including habitat loss, conflict with humans and pesticide use.

Loss of essential grassland habitat, increased use of toxic pesticides, reduced availability of nesting grounds, disease, and a changing climate with extreme weather patterns have all played a role in their decline.

Sediments used to renourish Dead Neck must be compatible with existing sediment to provide new, safe nesting habitat.

With years of clinical, personal and research experience, Suzanne Colson uses research data to interpret breastfeeding behaviors in their natural habitat... mother's body.

Researchers are buzzing with concern over declining bee populations due to habitat loss, pesticide use and other factors, but systematically tracking the insects has been challenging.

This research has been involved with a 50 - year, $ 626 million effort on the lower Colorado River that shows major genetics - based differences in the success of different populations that the Bureau of Reclamation and other agencies are using to restore riparian habitat.

This year, Tolson is initiating his third research project at Guantanamo Bay: a study of the habitat use and home range of the Cuban boa, pictured above with members of Tolson's research team.

Rajesh Gopal, director of Project Tiger, defends the use of pugmarks as «in tune with the local conditions» and says that the technique will be refined as part of a $ 1.1 million project now under way to map all tiger habitats.

The scientists, part of a team headed by researchers at Laval University in Quebec, used climate reconstructions from 21,000 years ago to the present to predict where caribou habitat would likely exist and they matched reservoirs of high genetic diversity to areas with the most stable habitat over time.

To predict which creatures are in danger of extinction, the teams used computer modeling and information from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to compare the way habitats look today with how they may be altered by climate change.

To establish whether these frogs actually use sound for communicate with each other, the scientists set up loudspeakers in their natural habitat and broadcast pre-recorded frog songs.

In every region, with the exception of a number of positive examples where lessons can be learned, biodiversity and nature's capacity to contribute to people are being degraded, reduced and lost due to a number of common pressures — habitat stress; overexploitation and unsustainable use of natural resources; air, land and water pollution; increasing numbers and impact of invasive alien species and climate change, among others.

To model the projected impact of climate change on marine biodiversity, the researchers used climate - velocity trajectories, a measurement which combines the rate and direction of movement of ocean temperature bands over time, together with information about thermal tolerance and habitat preference.

Now, researchers behind a new study from The Condor: Ornithological Applications have created a model of Whooping Crane habitat use with the potential to greatly improve the targeting of conservation efforts during their migration.

But the model can identify a solution that increases the area of wetland habitat with the best use of available water, labor and financial resources.»

Land use in these parts of northern Europe has changed markedly with key butterfly habitats such as hay meadows disappearing at alarming rates.

Environmentalists have their own bone to pick with the project, arguing the development has already harmed the habitat of the wekiu bug and other endemic flora and fauna, and limited recreational uses.

Using various microscopic imaging approaches, the scientists found that the unique spatial vision in the scallop is achieved through the mirror's layered structure located at the back of each eye, which is tiled with a mosaic of square - shaped crystals arranged and fine - tuned to reflect wavelengths of light that penetrate its habitat.

Using special diving suits and submersibles, they have even entered the habitat of deep - sea organisms, watching in awe as the water world lit up with bursts of color that sparkled like fireworks.

The main benefit for the impalas is that they can use habitats with large concentrations of ticks that would deter less well - adapted animals.

• More effective management and protection of large areas outside of formally protected areas; • Increased law enforcement combined with improved legal frameworks and stiffer sanctions for poachers; • Coordination across all sectors on land use and protection of natural resources with a priority on conserving great ape populations; • Conservation advocacy for wildlife and law enforcement to effect behavior change; • An enhanced understanding of diseases such as Ebola to guide conservation actions; • Monitoring of great ape abundance and distribution, habitat loss, and illegal activities.

On landscapes with both open and closed habitat structure, they may use a combined strategy of hiding in forest cover to lower predator encounter rates and seeking open terrain, such as grasslands, where predation risk may be reduced.

This information will be used to map distributions, identify important habitats, locate areas of nesting abundance, and detect roadways with high traffic - related mortality.

The authors describe a series of «land - sparing mechanisms» that link yield increases with habitat protection, such as land - use zoning and smart subsidy schemes, along with real - world examples that show how they can work — from India to Latin America.

For their studies on a species of human malaria that is also carried by monkeys, as part of a larger project funded by the UK Research Council Living with Environmental Change initiative, Fornace and her colleagues are using a drone to map changes in mosquito and monkey habitats and correlate how those changes affect human infection.

Dr Petra Schwendner, University of Edinburgh, corresponding author of the study said: «Until now, little was known about the influence of long - term confinement on the microorganisms that live inside habitats that may one day be used to travel to other planets, and whether the structure of the microbiota changes with time.

Using both DNA sequencing and morphology, along with differences in plumage, breeding biology, vocalisation, habitat, distribution, dispersal and migration it was possible to show the differences between the two species.

She says the findings are consistent with a paper she published in 2008, which showed that FWS preferred using biological criteria, such as proximity to a nest or den, that tend to minimize the amount of critical habitat.

To establish whether these frogs actually use sound to communicate with each other, the scientists set up loudspeakers in their natural habitat and broadcast pre-recorded frog songs.

Furthermore, hybridization is exacerbated by habitat modification (Allendorf et al. 2001), so this problem will probably become more serious with increasing land use and global climate change.

Here we assessed the song structure of male mountain chickadees using two exemplars of high and low elevation habitats on two different mountains in the Sierra Nevada with similar mixed - conifer forest structure.

Several reasonable explanations arise given these results: (1) all players were exercising, and exercise produces predictable changes in skin habitat conditions that are likely to affect bacterial communities over time; (2) players were acquiring microbial transients from the built environment; and (3) players were coming into repeated physical contact with their teammates and those from opposing teams, often using the sampled area of their upper arms, and potentially sharing portions of their skin microbiomes.

Christopher Peck and colleagues used GPS telemetry data from males like this one to predict the behavior and habitat selection of bears exploring landscapes outside the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, on journeys that could bring them into contact with breeding grizzly populations in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, and vice versa.

Research using climate models suggests that the combined effects of higher temperatures and lower oxygen will drive many marine animals away from their current habitats to areas with more oxygen, according to in a recent press release...

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.

One of their more important avenues of research has been redesigning and enhancing state - of - the - art habitat connectivity maps that can be paired with satellite imagery to display the potential corridors used by animal populations to move between both large and small areas.

Yvan Simard is a biological oceanographer using active and passive acoustics to study the marine mammals and their ecosystem, the multi-scale links with the oceanographic forcing and biological processes, and the anthropogenic imprint on the underwater soundscapes of their essential habitats, at the Maurice - Lamontagne Institute of Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the associated research Chair at the Marine Sciences Institute of the University of Québec at Rimouski, Québec, Canada.

The lower land - use efficiency of organic systems means that «large - scale conversion to organic would likely require bringing more natural habitats into agricultural production,» with a potentially severe impact on global biodiversity due to the loss of rainforests and other currently wild areas.

For use with either persuasive writing skills in English or Habitats in Geography.

Colourful worksheets covering Antarctic habitats and animal facts originally used with an SEN class of year 10 students.