Sentence examples for continuous habitats from inspiring English sources

Methods based on species- and endemics-area relationships are well developed, but applications to date have concentrated primarily on the fragmentation of formerly continuous habitats such as forests and woodlands.

Based on a model for non-optimal animal movement in human-modified landscapes, we predicted that individuals that evolve or develop in fragmented landscapes, with daily exposure to risky boundary and matrix conditions, would have higher resistance to boundary-crossing and overall increased dispersal success than individuals from continuous habitats.

For instance, fragmented habitats may support less pollinators than continuous habitats due to limited resource availability for pollinators (area-related effects on animal populations).

Under ideal conditions (e.g. continuous habitats and sufficient gene flow) we would expect more seldom kin encounters in solitary than in gregarious species, where kin develop on or in the same host.

Brooding is presumably favoured by natural selection on continuous habitats, such as anoxic sediments that are almost continuous along continental margins, as the great expanses of suitable substratum make colonization of new habitats unnecessary.

This process could arise in our studied species because, contrary to a vast majority of songbirds living in more continuous habitats, skylark populations have a particularly fragmented distribution, mainly due to human activities, leading to distinct small patches of acoustic variability [10].

Along with the apes, they are all one continuous habitat.

"It was surprising, but it seemed to say they had one continuous habitat," said Dr. Rabinowitz, the zoologist.

Jill Nelson, CEO of the People's Trust for Endangered Species, said: "One reason for the hedgehog decline is lack of roaming space to find food and mates, as typically hedgehogs need to travel up to a mile a night, so interconnected continuous habitat is crucial... Unless we are prepared to make an effort as individuals, data suggests that hedgehogs face an uncertain future".

"MPAs often fail to reach their full potential as a consequence of factors such as illegal harvesting, regulations that legally allow detrimental harvesting, or emigration of animals outside boundaries because of continuous habitat or inadequate size of reserve," the paper states.

We genotyped 10 microsatellite loci in 280 individuals from 11 populations in fragmented and continuous habitat.