Sentence examples for small habitats from inspiring English sources

Small habitats and ecotones are recognized as key structures in preserving biodiversity and maintaining landscape connectivity.

"You have basically a large intact ecosystem that is big enough and intact enough to have viable populations of large mammals that are very threatened elsewhere in small habitats surrounded by a sea of rice paddies," Mr. Weiler said.

In contrast, β-diversity was highest in these landscapes indicating that small habitats are also negatively affected by distance to grassland.

This research aims to evaluate the structural connectivity for a source habitat (i.e., forest) with particular consideration of the roles of ecotones, small habitats, and barriers.

Within an econet, ecotones function as extension of forest edges which can increase the intrapatch connectivity; small habitats play the role of stepping stones which can enhance interpatch connections among forest habitats.

A multi-buffer mapping procedure based on vector data is applied on two comparative test sites for mapping ecological networks (econets) which are composed of forest patches, ecotones, corridors, small habitats, and barriers.

Here the abiotic conditions show dramatic gradients and extensive patterns of small-scale habitats (Körner 2003; Larcher 2012).

Liz Slooton, of the New Zealand Whale and Dolphin Conservation Trust, said the endangered hector's dolphin lived in a very small habitat surrounding Kaikoura – only 50km up or down the coast, or 20 nautical miles out to sea.

A small habitat for a polar bear, said Dr. Ian Sterling of the Canadian Wildlife Service, where they know about such things, would be 20,000 or 30,000 square meters, and bears have been known to range over as many as 300,000 square meters.

In intensively used agricultural landscapes the remnants of natural flora only persist in small habitat islands embedded in a hostile matrix.

Retention of small habitat patches can provide a life-boat function for some red-listed species, but the long term survival of these populations is uncertain.