Sentence examples for over habitat from inspiring English sources

But zoos themselves do not have much control over habitat loss, and their breeding projects may help insure that there will be a supply of endangered animals to release if habitat-restoration groups are successful.

"I'd like to think that the awe people experience when they are surrounded by these gorgeous creatures will make them think twice about using toxic insecticides or paving over habitat," Hodges said.

Whereas the matrix effect model supposes that predator penetrate from habitat of higher predator density to habitat of lower predator density, thus causing an edge effect in the latter, according to the ecotonal effect model predators preferentially use edge habitats over habitat interiors.

However, as with any complex and intimate interaction, there is a mixture of common and divergent interests with opportunities for mutual benefit 11 and manipulation 12. Fitness interests of gut microbes are also often not aligned, because members of the microbiota compete with one another over habitat and nutrients.

They do so about as often as pandas turn over their habitat to developers.

Nor can I shake my insular chilliness toward a non-native species that in many areas has taken over trout habitat.

The Rev. Robert Knebel, who took over as Habitat's executive director in July, said that Christians, Jews, Muslims or anyone who shares the vision is welcome.

For all their grace and "greater abstract agility," they lack initiative, and have let a mindless, pancake-shaped creature take over their habitat, resigning themselves to eventual extinction.

As reds succumb, gray squirrels quickly take over the habitat.

But with so many invasive plant species seeded around the lake, it's feared that they took over critical habitat during the dry period and that the wild rice beds might not be able to come back.

What is more, Bush officials argue, with all the lawsuits over habitats, filed by developers and environmentalists alike, the Fish and Wildlife Service's ability to put new animals on the endangered species list ground to a halt last year.