The salt marsh provides a habitat for wading birds and other animals and plants.
An example might be Vermont: it has few natural advantages as a habitat for humans in winter.
The plants create a habitat for creatures like protozoans and microscopic crustaceans that eat the dead and dying bacteria.
Managing a habitat to preserve certain species is, in any case, highly controversial.
ECONOMIST: Wild-life conservation: Landscape or animals first? | The
One of her brides, says Ms. Weiss, corralled her girlfriends into painting a Habitat for Humanity dwelling for a poor family.
WSJ: For Brides and Grooms Who Have Everything, Something to Ease the Conscience
All six victims were found in the same area, a Habitat for Humanity neighborhood called the Rancho Brazos subdivision, the sheriff said.
The mill's proposed site adjoins a habitat for three endangered marsupials: the Tasmanian devil, the spot-tailed quoll and the eastern barred bandicoot.
The tiered structure also prevents erosion and provides a habitat for insects, birds and butterflies, which act as natural predators, reducing the need for pesticides.
They also provide a habitat for fish and other species of ecological and commercial interest, such as orange roughy, swordfish, tuna, sharks, turtles and whales.
"It's important to realise that bee hives can't just be stuck in urban space without creating a habitat for them, " says Michael Smith, the co-founder of Johnny's Garden.
Dr Clay's reasoning is that changes made to the vegetation of the eastern United States over the past century have created a habitat that is ideal for cicadas.
With its network of canals and artificial islands, it testifies to the efforts of the Aztec people to build a habitat in the midst of an unfavourable environment.
At the time, it was also used as a habitat for a range of wildlife, including buffalo, zebra, gazelles and leopards, which frequently strayed onto the farmland from the neighbouring grasslands.
Together with the island's other ecosystems such as seagrass meadows, coral reefs and sandy shores, the mangroves serve as a habitat for a variety of birds, fish and plants.
It was supposed to be dedicated Saturday, with a single mother of five moving in, said Michelle Kennedy, a Habitat for Humanity staffer who was helping with the tornado response.
About the size of a golf ball, it is what's known as a habitat specialist, found only in caves of a certain kind of volcanic rock along streams in southeastern Puerto Rico.
Environmentalists treasure Plum Island as a home to rare plants, a site where seals rest on rocks in large numbers, a stopover point for migratory birds and a habitat for endangered species like the roseate tern.
"Typically a habitat is less than the cost of large rocketry, " Michael Griffin of NASA told AP, and successfully utilizing the native materials on the moon will be a crucial to creating a viable base there.
The Ouse Washes includes a large floodplain which is looked after by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and provides a habitat for the Bewick's swan and whooper swan and wintering birds of prey, including the hen harrier, merlin, peregrine falcon and short-eared owl.
Schettino faces allegations of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, abandoning ship, failing to report an accident to the coast guard and destroying a natural habitat, a prosecutor said last month.
He faces allegations of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, abandoning ship, failing to report an accident to the coast guard and destroying a natural habitat, a prosecutor said this year.
CNN: Wrecked Costa Concordia to be raised from Italian sea bed
He faces possible charges of manslaughter, causing a shipwreck, abandoning ship, failing to report an accident to the coast guard and destroying a natural habitat, a prosecutor said last month.
It borders the Bridgwater Bay National Nature Reserve which was designated under the Ramsar Convention as a wetland habitat of international importance and a special protection area.
This perhaps explains why Pench Tiger Reserve, 140km to the south, also vies for the title of Jungle Book territory, while Satpura National Park, 300km to the west, is a core habitat for the utterly delightful sloth bear (Baloo from the stories), with a few also found in Kanha.
Mr. Nagy's program helps protect juveniles from birds and allows for research in a natural habitat.
WSJ: An Army of Biologists Are on Nature Patrol at Military Bases
At the Lincoln Park Zoo, we turned a 19th-century picturesque pond into a real habitat.
WSJ: A Renegade Architect Connects Cities and the Natural World
The churchyards also make a perfect habitat for wildlife such as butterflies, slow worms, lizards and bats.
Left unmanaged, a natural habitat will become dominated by certain species, often invasive aliens introduced by human beings.
WSJ: Ecology and Change: Nature Has No 'Balance' for Us to Keep | Mind & Matter
They don't require freshwater to flourish, and can thrive off saltwater or wastewater, making sewage farms a natural habitat.
应用推荐