Sentence examples for modified landscapes and from inspiring English sources

Already in prehistory, humans modified landscapes and affected the distribution of many species.

Humans and regional economic growth may be facilitating this population expansion, as A. punctulatus is able to rapidly occupy human modified landscapes and traverse unsealed roads.

Understanding the impacts of human activities on the environment from a local to a global scale requires an adequate representation of human modified landscapes and an explanation of the relationships between socioeconomic and biophysical factors.

With a much sparser evidence base, we also estimate that a further 44 million birds are killed annually by feral cats in highly modified landscapes, and 61 million birds are killed annually by pet cats, summing to 377 million birds killed yr− 1 (i.e., just over 1 million birds per day) by all cats.

clutch size, habitat affinity, diet, tolerance of human modified landscapes, and range extent (see [17] and references therein)—related to population trend and assessed changes in rainfall, proportional area of vegetation types, and survey coverage per vegetation type as possible determinants of population and general trends.

Mice are the only small mammal found throughout much of this highly modified landscape, and the diets of foxes [20], cats [21] and snakes [22] therefore contain a high proportion of house mice.

Although other power infrastructure, like fossil fuel and nuclear power stations, can also modify landscapes and habitats, onshore wind turbines are typically more spread out than other large-scale energy infrastructure projects and so can affect a larger area.

These include habitat affinity [23], mean clutch size and bird weight (proxies for life history characteristics [24]), diet [25], [26], tolerance of human modified landscapes [27], and range extent [28].

Many bird species use these heavily modified landscapes [1] and both positive [2], [3] and negative [4], [5] effects on birds have been documented.

SLOSS (single large or several small) analysis revealed that in modified landscapes, several small and medium trees supported an equivalent number of individuals and species as a single large tree, but the same pattern was weaker in reserves.

This information will assist conservation managers and planners to establish sound adaptive management plans to conserve biodiversity and ecosystem function in natural and modified landscapes.