Sentence examples for area-sensitive from inspiring English sources

The protection and proper management of these habitats, especially those used by area-sensitive, rare, or declining species, is the most effective means of conserving grassland bird populations.

Habitat fragmentation is thought to create a barrier to individual movements particularly for area-sensitive species which, by definition, prefer to breed in large tracts of forest.

For two breeding seasons, we radio-tracked an area-sensitive species, the scarlet tanager Piranga olivacea, in a fragmented landscape in northeastern PA.

Given the extensive progression of industrial forestry in boreal regions that reduces the area of old-growth forests and considerably increases the amount of sharp edges, important declines are to be expected among old-forest specialists area-sensitive or edge-avoiding boreal birds.

We examined the influence of habitat fragmentation at the landscape-scale, divided into habitat amount and configuration, on feather length FA in the Eurasian treecreeper (Certhia familiaris), an area-sensitive old-growth forest passerine breeding in boreal forests that are currently under intense management.

Ricketts Glen State Park has extensive acreage of "interior forest" that is far from open space; several bird species that are area-sensitive are found within these forests in the park, including the black-throated green warbler, red-eyed vireo, dark-eyed junco and black-capped chickadee.

The value at each flux represents the total CSC area sensitive to point sources with fluxes at least that large.

The studied zone is a 23 km² catchment located in a coastal lagoon area sensitive to eutrophication risk.

Both savanna and woodland sites in the open landscape had a higher percent of species of conservation concern, while at both site and landscape levels, woodland was associated with a higher percent of area sensitive species and habitat specialists.

The ANOVAs indicate that significant difference is due to the temporal variability of a) breeding forest interior birds rather than edge birds or generalist species and b) breeding area sensitive species rather than area non-sensitive species.

Human occipital-temporal cortex features several areas sensitive to faces, presumably forming the biological substrate for face perception.