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Elephant corridors are narrow strips of land that allow elephants to move from one habitat patch to another.

The reasons behind the argument that “ larger is better ” include the reduction in the negative impacts of patch edge effects, the general idea that species richness increases with habitat area and the ability of larger habitats to support greater populations with lower extinction probabilities.

Through simply moving from one habitat patch to another, the dispersal of an individual has consequences not only for individual fitness, but also for population dynamics, population genetics, and species distribution.

An ecosystem depends critically on the ability of individuals and populations to disperse from one habitat patch to another.

Population ecology is important in conservation biology, especially in the development of population viability analysis ( PVA ) which makes it possible to predict the long-term probability of a species persisting in a given habitat patch, such as a national park.

There are hundreds of palm trees remaining, mainly in a single patch of this habitat.

When the prey would go extinct locally at one habitat patch, they were able to reestablish by migrating to new patches before being attacked by predators.

which consist of subpopulations each of which inhabits a habitat patch

Levins ' original model applied to a metapopulation distributed over many patches of suitable habitat with significantly less interaction between patches than within a patch.

Inventory and evaluate wildlife habitat resources in cooperation with other Federal agencies and with the States in which National Forests and Grasslands are located, as a basis for orderly development of wildlife habitat improvement and coordination programs, including ( A ) big-game, gamebird, and small-game habitat surveys and investigations on the 186 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands, ( B ) fishery habitat surveys and investigations on the 81,000 miles of National Forest fishing streams and nearly 3 million acres of lakes and impoundments, and ( C ) participation in planning, inspection, and control phases of all habitat improvement, land and water use projects conducted on National Forest lands by States, other Federal agencies, and private groups to assure that projects will benefit wildlife and be in harmony with other resource values.

According to Scott Simpson, the Gona Project's physical anthropologist, the fossil evidence from the Middle Awash indicates that both A. kadabba and A. ramidus lived in " a mosaic of woodland and grasslands with lakes, swamps and springs nearby ," but further research is needed to determine which habitat Ardipithecus at Gona preferred.

This could possibly be because the plants need a stronger network to survive in a harsher environment, so their interactions between species, such as cross-pollination or mutualistic actions, become more common to cope with the severity of their habitat.

In the last few decades there has been a rapid decline in the numbers of wild mountain bongo due to poaching and human pressure on their habitat, with local extinctions reported in Cherangani and Chepalungu hills, Kenya.

Animal populations with impoverished genetic diversity are inherently less able to adapt to changes in their environment ( such as climate change, disease outbreaks, habitat change, etc .).

The western / lowland bongo faces an ongoing population decline as habitat destruction and meat hunting pressures increase with the relentless expansion of human settlement.

illegal logging activities throughout the country and strip mining for gems in the western region along the border with Thailand have resulted in habitat loss and declining biodiversity ( in particular, destruction of mangrove swamps threatens natural fisheries ); soil erosion ; in rural areas, most of the population does not have access to potable water ; declining fish stocks because of illegal fishing and overfishing

Due to its proximity to the Sahara, most of the Cape Verde islands are dry, but on islands with high mountains and farther away from the coast, by orography, the humidity is much higher, giving a rainforest habitat, very degraded by the strong human presence.

Opposing the terrain to a front of warm, moist air mass, it forces to increase the height above sea level of that body wet and warm air mass, which cools and decreases the dew point, causing it to condense part of the moisture that falls as rain or fog, creating an habitat especially cool, saturated with moisture in the air and soil.

Comorian waters are the habitat of the coelacanth, a rare fish with limblike fins and a cartilaginous skeleton, the fossil remains of which date as far back as 400 million years and which was once thought to have become extinct about 70 million years ago.

General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty ; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use ( which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity ), although this has been changing ( see Nile Crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000 ).

Many of the animals in lakes and rivers are dependent upon the wetlands of littoral zones, since the rooted plants provide habitat and food.

In the habitat part of the rooted plants, Hydrophasianus chirurgus, Metopidius indicus, and others were reported ; once abundant now show a declining trend.

North of Esher the old river channel is dominated by floating pennywort, a highly invasive weed, which cuts off all light to the river bed, reducing oxygen levels and resulting in a poor habitat for fish.

They are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes that are their preferred habitat.

Depending on the species and habitat, the nests may consist of unlined scrapes in the ground, or of flimsy collections of sticks on trees or floating vegetation.

* Lauren E. Nolfo-Clements: Seasonal variations in habitat availability, habitat selection, and movement patterns of Myocastor coypus on a subtropical freshwater floating marsh.

African Jacanas ( Actophilornis africana ) are waders in the family Jacanidae, identifiable by long toes and long claws that enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat.

The jacanas are a group of waders in the family Charadriidae, which are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes that are their preferred habitat.

Jacanas are a group of waders in the family Jacanidae that are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in shallow lakes, their preferred habitat.

After working in the water, they rest and live in a dry pressurized habitat on or connected to a diving support vessel, oil platform or other floating work station, at approximately the same pressure as the work depth.

Tom has been involved designing and installing floating islands and floating reedbeds in China and Australia since 2004 for purposes including habitat provision, water quality improvement and treatment, wave dampening action to reduce erosion in ponds, lakes and wetlands.

Besides, the alteration of the streams of water affected the dynamics of the floating vegetation that in the system Iberá is the habitat of many endemic species.

The jacanas are a group of wetland birds, which are identifiable by their huge feet and claws that enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes that are their preferred habitat.

The jacanas are a group of wetland birds, which are identifiable by their huge feet and claws which enable them to walk on floating vegetation in the shallow lakes that are their preferred habitat.

These included apartments designed by architect Kisho Kurokawa featuring detachable building modules and more significant designs including a floating habitat made of fiberglass designed by Jacques Beufs for living on water surfaces, concepts for living underwater by architect Jacques Rougerie and the Don Metz house built in the 1970s which took advantage of the earth as insulation.

In urban rivers, addition of large wood to provide habitat, modifications to walls and other structures to mimic natural banks, floating islands to provide habitat, and buffer areas to reduce pollutants can all increase biodiversity without reducing the flood control and water supply services currently obtained from the system.

They are found on every continent except Antarctica, in every habitat on the planet that contains insect-pollinated flowering plants.

In Scotland, the berries were originally wild-harvested but with the loss of suitable habitat, the plants have become so scarce that this is no longer done.

air pollution from manufacturing and power plants contributing to acid rain ; water pollution from industrial wastes, agricultural chemicals ; habitat loss threatens wildlife populations

* Native plant gardening is concerned with the use of native plants with or without the intent of creating wildlife habitat.

This may have an advantage to local wildlife by providing a habitat for birds, animals, and wild plants.

Some specialists recommend using seaweed mulch or spray on the plants and minimize the insect habitat by cleaning the garden area of debris and weeds.

Most plants are one metre in height when mature, but may vary according to locality and habitat from 0. 35 m to 2 metres in height.

The narrow, deeply incised valleys of the north also provide a habitat for rare plants and animals, especially the European Otter, a protected species.

New Mexico contains extensive habitat for many plants and animals, especially in desert areas and pinon-juniper woodlands.

Waterfalls provide spring water for humans, animals and plants for survival and also habitat for marine organisms.

The rain forests also offer prime habitat for more than 500 species of birds, including the Philippine eagle ( or monkey-eating eagle ), some 800 species of orchids, and some 8, 500 species of flowering plants.

It contains about 1, 000-2, 000 species of shrubs, herbs, and lianas, many of which are keystone species in their native habitat The diversification of this taxon is of interest to understanding the evolution of plants.

One habitat is rocky, sea-side cliffs, where the plants are bushy with broad leaves and expanded inflorescences ; the other is among sand dunes where the plants grow prostrate with narrow leaves and compact inflorescences.

Swimming is also used in marine biology to observe plants and animals in their natural habitat.

Finally the mound springs of the Great Artesian Basin are important habitat for a number of plants, fish, snails and other invertebrates.

A second theory, the fire cycle hypothesis, argues that periodic flowering followed by death of the adult plants has evolved as a mechanism to create disturbance in the habitat, thus providing the seedlings with a gap in which to grow.

Most occur in heathlands or low woodlands ; of the eastern species, B. integrifolia and B. marginata occur in forests ; many south-western species such as B. grandis, B. sphaerocarpa, B. sessilis, B. nobilis and B. dallanneyi grow as understorey plants in Jarrah ( Eucalyptus marginata ), Wandoo ( E. wandoo ) and Karri ( E. diversicolor ) forests, with B. seminuda being one of the forest trees in suitable habitat.

Another effect of dew on plants is its role as a habitat for pathogens such as the fungus Phytophthora infestans which infects potato plants.

Its divine aspect combined with its habitat in the earth between the roots of plants made it an animal with chthonic properties connected to the afterlife and immortality.

A fennec fox's typical den is dug in sand, either in open areas or places sheltered by plants with stable sand dunes considered to be their ideal habitat.

The word is used in at least three senses: ( 1 ) most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage or mangal, for which the terms mangrove forest biome, mangrove swamp and mangrove forest are also used, ( 2 ) to refer to all trees and large shrubs in the mangrove swamp, and ( 3 ) narrowly to refer to the mangrove family of plants, the Rhizophoraceae, or even more specifically just to mangrove trees of the genus Rhizophora.

The area provides habitat for a large number of rare plants and animals.