Sentence examples for functional habitats from inspiring English sources

This paper uses data from over 4000 surveyed UK river reaches in the UK River Habitat Survey (RHS) database in order to seek linkages between surface flow conditions (flow biotopes), local channel morphology (physical biotopes) and biologically distinct vegetative and minerogenic habitat units (functional habitats).

Hence, a habitat from this viewpoint is the intersection and union of the necessary complementary resources (i.e., consumables and conditions) for an organism at all its life stages, where resources are connected by daily movements to give functional habitats by combination and overlap (Dennis et al. 2003).

Maintaining biodiversity requires a wise combination of protection, management and recreation of habitats to secure representative and functional habitat networks.

In conclusion, this study detected only a minor effect of a fragmented agricultural landscape on functional habitat connectivity in three common grasshopper species.

To group different (and sometimes scattered) ecological resources into functional habitat zones, we derived a measure of space-use from mark-release-recapture data.

We therefore develop an integrated method for assessing the habitat fragmentation that combines habitat suitability with dispersal distance data to assess the patch isolation, within-patch fragmentation and identify the functional habitat fragmentation categories.

These findings suggest that non-crop habitats have differing effects on ladybeetle populations, both in their spatial scale and over time, and the continuity of functional habitat types is essential to support ladybeetle populations.

This study assessed the effects of a fragmented and intensively used agricultural landscape in Switzerland (study area: 95 km2) on functional habitat connectivity of three common grasshopper species with different levels of habitat specialisation, Chorthippus albomarginatus, C. biguttulus and Gomphocerippus rufus.

Our model can be used to determine E. affinis functional habitat (i.e., the spatial relation with structuring factors), to carry out retrospective analysis, and to test future distributions.

This study investigates the effects of vegetation management (slashing), on: (1) timing of small mammal recolonisation; (2) vegetation characteristics that drive small mammal responses; and (3) the point where corridor resources are sufficient to provide functional habitat for native species.

While mesic areas associated with anthropogenic features of the landscape reduced nest survival (Dzialak et al. 2011a), DSR of nests was reduced when in proximity to any mesic area, likely due to the functional habitat value of the area for a wide number of avian and terrestrial predators.