Sentence examples for forest islands from inspiring English sources

We hope that our research in the kipuka — forest islands in the fields of lava — will yield new insights into how forest patch size and introduced rats influence food webs and native birds.

Scientist at Work David J. Flaspohler, an avian ecologist at Michigan Technological University who studies the effects of human activities on birds in Hawaii, posted to nytimes.com/scientistatwork: I am once again hiking across the sun-baked landscape of undulating lava on the Big Island of Hawaii, approaching one of the forest islands known to native Hawaiians as a kipuka.

After six months back at the Michigan Technological University in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, I am once again hiking across the sun-baked landscape of undulating lava on the Big Island of Hawaii, approaching one of the forest islands known to native Hawaiians as a kipuka.

This can also help to reduce pressure on forest islands.

This indicates that these forest islands are potentially at risk if regional fire frequency increases.

A study found that some small mammal species on forest islands, created by a hydroelectric reservoir, in Thailand became extinct in just five years.

In the future, they say, they will be more likely to move individual wild lemurs from one forest island to another as needed.

"I like to boast about it when I go abroad: the lochs and castles, the pine forests, islands and mountains.

Forested islands may have arisen, separating terrestrial populations and spurring speciation.

In the Gulf of Chiriqu the thickly forested island, which is home to howler monkeys, parrots and other exotic animals, is being developed with an eye toward environmental preservation.

THE screen saver photograph on Eleanor Sterling's computer is not of children or pets but an aerial view of a deserted, heavily forested island off the coast of northeast Madagascar.