Sentence examples for target habitats from inspiring English sources
Semi-natural grasslands are target habitats for ecological restoration in temperate Europe.
Mapping of habitats with relevance for nature conservation involves the identification of patches of target habitats in a complex mosaic of vegetation types not relevant for conservation planning.
Limiting the necessary ground reference to a small sample of target habitats would greatly reduce and therefore support the field mapping effort.
Hence, the target habitats that showed stability (persistence) between the two dates were excluded from the analysis, as well as the land cover classes not suitable for restoration (broad-leaved forests, arable land, artificial and other agricultural areas).
In the first step, a land cover map was obtained by image segmentation on the 1954 photographs and the patches classified as "target habitats" were used as a selection mask on the 2002 image.
Our framework can be used to detect gaps in available data, translate indicator systems into practical conservation, identify combined sets of indicators to monitor biodiversity in target habitats, and recognize most suitable surrogates when information for some indicators is missing.
Our study reveals the potential of coastal wolves to seasonally target prey habitat and adjust to altered landscapes, but successional forests had a limited period of use (<30 years), thus forestry practices could reduce availability of wolves' preferred habitat.
Attraction was facilitated when target habitat had a high profile.
The identification of their landscape-scale effects is the first step to target habitat management toward specific actions.
Habitat suitability modelling has shown itself to be an important decision support tool for those concerned with the problem of where to target habitat and landscape restoration efforts.
The scheme would pay farmers a premium if the site contains a set number of indicator species, which were selected based on vascular plant surveys of the target habitat type.
