Sentence examples for ecological refuge from inspiring English sources
Caiman Ecological Refuge has been operating for more than 17 years.
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Besides, a kelp forest is an ecological refuge that can be installed in the only real estate that is readily available.
To the Editor: I was distressed to see the Caiman Ecological Refuge, a so-called eco-lodge, featured in "Adventure in the Pantanal" (Oct . 26 by Tony Smith.
Last fall, the commission's staff experts recommended denial of Banning Ranch's proposal for a 1,375-home 1,375-homeproject on the grounds thandthotelte, though disturbed by nearly 70 years of oil projection, remained a crucial ecological refuge for plantheand animals all but groundsom coasthatSouthern California.
They provide critical breeding sites for many top order mammalian and avian predators; nesting sites for colonial species such as seabirds, bats and swifts and ecological refuges for ancient lineages.
T. geyeri is found today in open calcareous or loessic grass and scrublands with a sparse vegetation cover on mountaintops, carstic highland plateaus and disturbed pastures, which are thought to constitute ecological refuges [ 17].
The 10-02 may or may not contain a lot of oil — estimates range widely — but it is clearly the ecological heart of the refuge, the summer breeding ground for two hundred thousand caribou and millions of migratory birds.
Nevertheless, adaptation to local ecological conditions in different refuges can also accelerate speciation when divergence affects phenotypic traits involved in mate choice [ 1, 4- 6].
By integrating these diverse data we are able to reconstruct the evolutionary history of the A. brunneus complex in the southwestern Mediterranean region, and illustrate how late Pleistocene climate changes may have shaped its current diversity by promoting ecological differentiation within a southern refuge.
An important component of this heterogeneity is the occurrence of unburnt patches within the fire boundary: these fulfil a number of ecological functions including serving as refuges for fire-sensitive organisms.
