Sentences with phrase «with new habitat»

Now, along the continental shelf off south - central California, The Nature Conservancy is working to find out if trawlers provide such animals with new habitat.

Not exact matches

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.

The Plan includes positive steps to require new energy development to be located in close proximity to existing road networks although the stated proximity of 200 metres may not be close enough to maintain undisturbed habitat (at pp 44 - 47), but nonetheless implementing this step with planning regulations that require access plans to be approved and enforced by Alberta Environment, Alberta Forestry, or the Alberta Energy Regulator — once again — seems like pie in the sky.

Based on a plan drawn up free of charge by a Seattle architecture firm, the new zoo maintains the intimacy of the old zoo — a rustic place with dusty paths, teetering structures and the occasional mango tree in bloom — while enabling people to see animals in their natural habitats: paca in river forest, pumas in pineland, jaguarundi at the forest edge.

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

Education Volunteers receive coastal New England habitat training, develop an outdoor education teaching techniques, work with experienced educators, and become part of a dedicated and knowledgeable team.

While caring for animals affected by human activity such as overfishing, habitat degradation, plastic pollution and rising ocean temperatures, the team seeks to increase public engagement and advocacy along with inspire new individuals to make a difference.

«BASC recommends that any new environmental scheme should recognise the value of shooting, especially in relation to conservation objectives associated with improving farm wildlife and habitats.

«From the complete destruction of the Rockaway Boardwalk to recreational assets and natural habitats broken up by wind and water, New York City's parks were faced with unprecedented damage in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy,» Commissioner Mitchell Silver said.

Here, the conservancy is partnering with the City of Niagara Falls and Applied Ecological Services to restore habitats on the land owned by the New York Power Authority and managed by the state Department of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.

That's how a new and improved habitat — whimsically called La Chalupa, Spanish for a type of fishing boat with a tendency to capsize — got its start.

Even if you are trying to replace like with like, it is far from clear if, for instance, the nightingales of Lodge Hill will, upon returning from overwintering in Africa, find their way to any new habitat created for them, still less whether they will find it to their liking.

Upon learning that the habitat of the newly discovered toad was threatened by logging, the search team worked quickly with local partner Fundacion ProAves to create a new protected are called Las Tangaras Reserve, purchasing land and building a research center to help ensure the species» survival.

Citizen scientists with birding experience can help New Jersey study its migrant shorebird habitats

Some populations of these eukaryotes have upped their survival odds even further by bringing their favorite bacterial food along with them to create a fresh crop that is seeded and consumed in the new habitat.

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.

In the new study, he and his colleagues sought to quantify those costs by mapping each corridor along with the estimated human occupancy and the environmental values, including endangered and endemic vertebrates, plant diversity, critical habitats, carbon storage, and climate - regulation services, inside a 50 - kilometer - wide band overlaid onto each corridor.

Pika populations were most likely to go locally extinct at sites with high summer temperatures and low habitat area, said Joseph Stewart, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz and first author of a paper reporting the new findings, published January 29 in the Journal of Biogeography.

The loss of habitats is the greatest threat to the endangered orangutans, and now a new study says their existence could be further jeopardized if conservation efforts don't include reintroducing these great apes into natural environments with enough high - energy food for them to survive.

Many scientists have predicted that habitat loss will force species into new geographical ranges — areas where they may begin to overlap, compete, and even mate with closely related natives.

But, just as with mosquitoes, it is unclear whether changes in the climate and conditions of new habitats will be as conducive to the Lyme bacterium and other diseases as they are to ticks.

For instance, a new biodiversity indicator weeds out protected areas that do not intersect with species» habitats, showing where national parks may be ineffective at protecting species.

«Banning commercial logging in natural forests, establishing nature reserves and helping residents in the reserve change behaviors that damaged habitat has been beneficial,» said Liu, who published Pandas and People (Oxford University Press) last year with four other authors of the new study.

Elizabeth Griffin Wilson, a marine scientist with the international conservation group Oceana, points out that the new paper does not specifically investigate the effects of factors like fishing bycatch or habitat destruction, so she urges caution in comparing the human and natural toll on sea turtles.

Areas with carbon - rich ecosystems with key wilderness habitats, such as tropical forests, were identified as those where new roads would cause the most environmental damage with the lease human benefit, particularly areas where few roads currently exist.

But birdwatchers don't have a new species to add to their life lists yet: Most observers agree with the study authors that further research on mating preferences, gene flow, and behavioral and habitat differences is needed before ornithologists split the common raven into two species.

New oviraptorid embryos from Bugin - Tsav, Nemegt Formation (Upper Cretaceous), Mongolia with insights into their habitat and growth.

Professor Poinar continues, «Mammoths were much better at adapting to new habitats than we first thought — we suspect that subgroups of mammoths evolved to deal with local conditions, but maintained genetic continuity by encountering and potentially interbreeding with each other where their two different habitats met, such as at the edge of glaciers and ice sheets.»

I had been working with Archean astrobiologists since 2014, exploring the link between early life habitats on Earth and the hot springs that I study (Jurassic - modern) in different parts of the world, including New Zealand.

After over three billion years of evolution in the oceans, multi-cellular life — beginning with green algae, fungi, and plants (liverworts, mosses, ferns, then vascular and flowering plants)-- began adapting to land habitats by creating a new «hypersea,» and adding anomalous shades of green to Earth's coloration more than 472 million years ago (Matt Walker, BBC News, October 12, 2010; and Qiu et al, 1998 — more on the evolution of photosynthetic life and plants on Earth).

As a result, life on Earth has flourished for over four billion years by recycling its own wastes and exploiting new habitats with physiological adaptations, through occasional environmental disasters such as catastrophic meteoric impacts.

Exploiting habitats that are often or mostly out of water required new symbiotic relationships to contain and move water, including the fusion of some fungi and algae to create lichen in communities with bacteria that survive extreme desiccation on land while breaking down rock into soil, and the association of mycorrhizae fungi and the root tissue of new vascular plants — culminating in trees that pump water high into the air — to exchange mineral nutrients (e.g., phosphorus) and usable «fixed» nitrogen from the atmosphere for photosynthetic products.

During the discovery of New Zealand's methane seeps, an unexpectedly dense habitat of heterotrophic infauna, dominated by ampharetid polychaetes, was found to co-occur with incredibly high methane emission.

With a new team of collaborators we are underway conducting spatial analyses of Passenger Pigeon observation records with various habitat factors to further clarify the ecological niche space of the specWith a new team of collaborators we are underway conducting spatial analyses of Passenger Pigeon observation records with various habitat factors to further clarify the ecological niche space of the specwith various habitat factors to further clarify the ecological niche space of the species.

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.

The dramatic explosion of flowering plant species that occurred about 100 million years ago was thought to have been good news for evolving mammals, providing them with new options for food and habitat.

Well - controlled laboratory as well as large - scale field experiments were conducted with keystone species and natural communities in a wide range of habitats in the North and Baltic Sea, the Atlantic and Arctic Ocean, and off Papua New Guinea, among other places.

Even though contamination with mercury, pesticides, and persistent organic pollutants (POPS) has become a widespread problem in salmon habitats and has often compromised the quality of salmon itself, there are still some good alternatives for wild - caught salmon including species caught near New Zealand, Norway, and the West Coast of the United States (including Alaska).

Some lists may be very long and will take time to load Note: A new dropdown list will appear if a country has a sub-country Agency with mission of conserving, protecting and enhancing fish, wildlife, and plants and their habitats for the continuing benefit of the American people.

New quattro technology This remarkable engine and transmission pairing has the very best habitat in which to demonstrate its capabilities thanks to the integration of the Dynamic Ride Control (DRC) adaptive damping system adopted from the RS 6, the sport differential which already brings acute adjustability to the S4 and S5 and the latest generation quattro all - wheel - drive system with crown gear differential.

New 5 - year plan links a healthy environment to a strong economy with a focus on the Arctic, oceans, freshwater and terrestrial systems that provide critical habitat for species

«The few that are able to adapt to the new environment may disrupt the ecological balance of our natural habitats by competing with our native species for resources,» he explains.

Adding a pile of rabbit hay to a pet's habitat gives them something new to play with, which can prevent boredom or undesirable behavior.

With TNR, there are no more kittens, and sterile adult cats are left in their territory to prevent new, intact cats from coming into the space — while allowing these top predators to remain in the habitat, preempting problems like the destabilization of the ecosystem.

Through our Petco Adoption Center in Overland Park, Kansas and 5 other local Petco stores with cat habitats in the Kansas City area, we placed 1,379 cats and dogs from our shelter into new homes in 2016 — resulting in 22 % of all adoptions from our shelter last year occurring through a partner Petco store!

Cat defenders say that the new estimates won't change their belief that cats are scapegoats for bird habitat loss, chemicals used in fertilizers and insecticides, and collisions with man - made objects.

Iv just got a new Syrian hamster, he is very nervous and was making squeaking noises when taking him out of he's habitat in pets at home, when we opened the cardboard box and he seen my partner he immediately started squeeking, he's very nervous, we have got him a huge cage with lots of enrichment and different tubes to go in, he is 9 weeks old and we are worried he won't take to us, has anyone any tips on how we can bond?

Cubic Feet: 1.9 Suitable Housing For: 1 - 3 Dwarf Hamsters (Campbell Dwarf Hamsters and Winter White Dwarf Hamster pairs generally need more floor space, Roborovski pairs get along better in this cage) Average Price: $ 35 - $ 65 New Pros: Flexible and durable plastic construction, well made accessories, integrated carrier, expandable with additional habitats and accessories, full length second floor with walls Cons: Floor space is partially dominated by wheel and tube access to second level.

Cubic Feet: 1.3 Suitable Housing For: 1 - 2 Dwarf Hamsters (Campbell Dwarf Hamsters and Winter White Dwarf Hamster pairs generally need more floor space, Roborovski pairs get along better in this cage) Average Price: $ 25 - $ 45 New Pros: Flexible and durable plastic construction, well made accessories, integrated carrier, expandable with additional habitats and accessories Cons: Not suitable for campbell dwarf hamster or winter white dwarf hamster pairs (roborovskis do better), floor space is partially dominated by wheel and tube access to top level.

Pet stores carry a variety of Bearded Dragon habitat kits that are complete with almost everything you need to build a comfortable home for your new pet.