Sentence examples for robust habitats from inspiring English sources

With the greater scrutiny of water and our ability to measure constituents at lower and lower levels, there is a perception that water quality is deteriorating, but the data, increasingly sophisticated (even elegant) treatment systems and the empirical evidence of more robust habitats do not bear this out.

Progress in using remote sensing together with field data for the development of robust habitat suitability models has been more modest.

Here we use data from Barro Colorado Island (BCI), Panama, to demonstrate how a variety of ground surveys and remote sensing data can be combined to create the kind of robust habitat model necessary for agent-based simulations of animal movement.

Without a full model including predictor interactions, disentangling the importance of the individual predictors remains guesswork and we were yet unable to produce robust habitat suitability maps.

The research revealed the devastating effect that anthropogenic impacts can have on a relatively robust marine habitat like an oyster bed and it is hoped these findings will act as a driver to investigate and map other vulnerable habitats within the region before they too become compromised.

But, Mr. Cook said, "Eco-tourism is not our primary objective; preserving these robust and abundant habitats is".

"Mr. Bigelow created Bigelow Aerospace with the express purpose of revolutionizing space commerce via the development of affordable, reliable and robust expandable space habitats," the company's website states.

We applied these techniques to produce robust estimates of habitat occupancy for a subset of forest breeding birds, a group that has been shown to be sensitive to urbanization, in a rapidly urbanizing yet biological diverse region of New York State.

Insufficient sampling of frenulates, however, does not allow robust comparisons between habitat isolation and developmental mode.

Density estimates are regarded as robust surrogates of habitat utilization [38].

This assumption is justified for most regions (especially remote areas) because: (1) specialised areas of high conservation value such as calving or mating areas and migratory corridors have not been identified; and (2) density estimates are regarded as robust surrogates of habitat utilization [38].