habitat

The plant's habitat is slowly being destroyed.

In its natural habitat, the hibiscus will grow up to 25ft.

Trees provide a habitat for three-quarters of the planet's biodiversity.

Careful habitat management increased this number to over 300 birds, but the single population remained vulnerable to local catastrophic events.

Farming in Kansas and eastern Colorado (central and western United States) proceeded rapidly in the 1870s and 1880s, but this was about 50 years before raccoons started to spread out from their major habitat, the wooded river bottomlands.

The place where the plant or animal lives, you know, its habitat.

The Artie is its niche, the habitat it's adapted to survive in.

But for biologists, the concept of a niche also includes the way an organism functions in its habitat, how it interacts with other plant and animal species, with the soil, the air, the water and so on.

Maybe it could find some new way of functioning in its habitat so that it wouldn't have to compete with the dominant species.

Keep the same habitat but not the exact same niche.

Forest and shrubland burning appears to have reduced the prime habitat of many moa species.

Because major habitat destruction seems to have occurred after moa populations already were depleted, and because some habitat that could have sheltered moa populations remained, it would seem that other factors were also at work in the extinction of these birds.

Earlier experiments have used a more generic habitat, basically a wide open circle, which was originally designed to test magnetic navigation in other animals.

Then in the second part of the experiment, the magnetic field was altered but only for the trip home, a specially constructed set of magnets was used to shift the magnetic field around the habitat 19 degrees eastward.

Archaeologist Donald Henry suggests that the combination of a rich habitat and sedentism (permanent, year-round settlement) led to a dramatic increase in human population.

What ecological pressures might have caused fishes to gradually abandon their watery habitat and become increasingly land-dwelling creatures?

Thus, by the Devonian the land habitat marginal to freshwater was probably a rich source of protein that could be exploited by an animal that could easily climb out of water.

How did the first tetrapods make the transition to a terrestrial habitat?

Species whose habitat lies in the temperate latitudes are confronted by lethal low temperatures in winter, while species dwelling in semiarid regions are exposed to long dry, hot periods in summer.

Many plants depend on wind for dispersal and produce abundant quantities of small, relatively short-lived seeds to compensate for the fact that wind is not always a reliable means If reaching the appropriate type of habitat.

And global warming is expected to significantly reduce or eliminate this tree's habitat.

Water temperature can fluctuate seasonally or even daily and changing level of rainfall can lead to fluctuations in the concentration of chemical in the water or even to period in which the aquatic habitat dries up.

Countless species have disappeared due to over-hunting, habitat destruction and habitat fragmentation, pollution and other unnatural human causes.

Their major point was that the distribution of a given species was controlled by the habitat requirements of that species and that therefore the vegetation types were a simple consequence of the ecologies of individual plant species.

Evidence points to hunting by humans and habitat destruction as the likely causes for the current mass extinction.

Few countries have as rich a diversity of habitat as South Africa.