Sentence examples for river species from inspiring English sources
This is a prized fishing spot for both ocean and river species.
More commonly called "rock snot," it prefers shallow, sunny streams that trout like, and it grows in huge mats that can smother insects and other marine invertebrates that trout and other river species depend on for food.
Meanwhile, the seawater brought with it the marine ancestors of several river species found in Amazonia today, including dolphins and stingrays, says Nathan Lovejoy, an evolutionary biologist at the University of Toronto, Scarborough, in Canada.
This paper presents a validity and sensitivity analysis of a model (BIO-SAFE) for assessment of impacts of land use changes and physical reconstruction measures on legally protected and endangered river species.
However, recent evidence of high genetic diversity in Patagonian river species suggests the existence of aquatic refugia in this region.
Dietary differences between the Hayle and Teign fish may be influenced by many environmental variables, although may not be entirely unrelated to metal contamination because metal exposure is well-known to alter food webs through changes in river species assemblage [e.g., ref (55)].
Both are tidal-river species, tolerating salinities up to about half that of marine salt water, and both include large amounts of fruits and leaves from waterside vegetation in their diet.
The smallest river dolphin species, the La Plata river dolphin (Pontoporia blainvillei), also lives in South America.
Jennifer Lewis, director of the Tropical Dolphin Research Foundation in Alexandria, Virginia, is particularly concerned about the impact the spill will have on two rare river dolphin species: the Irrawaddy and Ganges river dolphins.
Of the four river dolphin species currently recognized, three are classified from vulnerable to critically endangered by IUCN.
Because river herring species are so depleted, fishing for them is banned in most states--including in the coastal waters that extend three nautical miles from shore.
