Sentence examples for ongoing habitat from inspiring English sources

"Our wildlife intake continues to rise and, sadly, with ongoing habitat destruction, there seems little hope on the horizon that this trend will reverse," Mark Townend, the chief executive of RSPCA Queensland, wrote in the charity's latest annual report.

Connectivity is increasingly of conservation concern due to ongoing habitat fragmentation, land-use dynamics and climate change.

In critically evaluating this position I argue that offsets, along with biodiversity and ecosystem valuation, use economic logic to legitimise, rather than prevent, ongoing habitat destruction.

We propose that both extinction debt in the classical sense and ongoing habitat change frequently contribute to species' decline in modified landscapes.

An estimated 90% of the species' global population overwinters on the island of Hispaniola, where ongoing habitat loss is a severe problem.

The team identified nine general impacts to penguin populations, but attributed the greatest risks to ongoing habitat destruction from livestock and introduced species, pollution from oil spills and marine debris, and food scarcity and injury resulting from increased fishing pressure.

In the context of ongoing global habitat loss, this approach provides a pragmatic, but also potentially biologically meaningful, way of incorporating defensible and quantitative ecological process targets or biodiversity persistence goals into conservation plans.

As distance between suitable habitats increases, the ongoing process of habitat fragmentation is expected to generate strong selection pressures on movement behaviour.

Add to this the ongoing rate of habitat destruction — including deforestation, often for fuel but usually for producing more food — and other threats like the growing production of biofuels, and it is hard to argue that there isn't a profound conflict between what our species will need to survive by 2050 and the needs of nearly every other species on this planet.

Our study provides a genetic benchmark to assess ongoing and future habitat restoration efforts across the HEC and beyond.

"What you are trying to do is balance the urgent needs of the present — the ongoing destruction of habitats that species need now — with the urgent needs of the future — places where they may end up if they are able to move in response to changing climate".