Sentence examples for brush ecosystem from inspiring English sources
It marks "a new lease on life" for the sage grouse and some 350 other species that rely on the sage brush ecosystem, said David Yarnold, president of the National Audubon Society in New York City, in a statement.
Populations of greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) have plummeted by an estimated 90% as oil and gas drilling, mining, ranching, wildfires, and invasive species have consumed its critical habitat in sage brush ecosystems.
- San Diego County has refused to create a true fire department -- because for its leaders, the ideology of small government trumps the reality of millions of people living in a chaparral-brush ecosystem which will unavoidably go through periodic high-intensity fires.
Fires can actually benefit ecosystems by clearing brush and regenerating forests.
The company donated $2 million to preserve the wetlands and build eco-sensitive trails for visitors to explore the area — an ecosystem of native trees and scrub brush that is one of the largest bird habitats in the Bahamas.
"The tendency is to brush them away, but they're a necessary part of the industrial ecosystem".
The tortoises are a keystone species, acting as ecosystem engineers which help in plant seed dispersal, trampling down brush and thinning the understory of vegetation (allowing light to penetrate and germination to occur).
"This is an ecosystem to ecosystem battle".
They build an ecosystem".
