Mann and her colleagues compared the strength of social connections between both male and female spongers and non-spongers that lived in the same area, thereby eliminating differences in habitat that could potentially affect grouping behavior.
In 1998 he was appointed head of design at Habitat, then later creative director, staying on as a consultant even after founding his eponymous company in 2002 (he left Habitat in 2008).
Specimens have washed ashore on beaches but never before have been filmed in their normal habitat deep in the ocean, researchers say.
The bittern, which lives in reedbed habitat, was once widespread across the UK, but stopped nesting in the UK in the 19th Century after drainage of wetlands.
See if he really is hammering those nails in the Habitat for Humanity houses or if it's only a photo op.
"The Fish and Wildlife Service is really interested in trout habitat, designing culverts so fish can move to cooler waters, " Prickett said.
But a Bush administration mandate to fast track energy development across the West has energy companies eager to drill in its habitat.
One of the only places on Earth to see them in their natural habitat, the wax palms in Cocora Valley can grow to 60m tall, and hundreds of them randomly dot the cleared grassland like floral pinwheels, towering above fields of grazing livestock.
The workshop will be held at the Cultural Center Bernardino Rivadavia in Rosario, Argentina, as part of the activities of the Ministry of Water, Public Services and Environment (MWSE) and Habitat Secretariat in the framework of World Habitat Day.
UNESCO: Programa Hidrol��gico Internacional: Workshop - Online Forum: "Water and Habitat"
The team targeted the animals in their natural habitat to analyse individual variation and consistency in behavioural response.
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
Deforestation and habitat loss in Virunga because of illegal charcoal production continue to threaten key gorilla habitat.
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is getting involved by spearheading the Joplin Challenge in association with Habitat For Humanity.
If you want to do more than simply observe animals in their natural habitat, consider a more interactive travel experience.
So if you destroy the habitat in which these fish feed and breed then you're going to destroy sustainability of that fishery.
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Biologists scrambling to make decisions about the habitat in southern California found neither a vegetation map nor any demographic data on the gnatcatcher.
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The committee's motion called on the executive to introduce measures to protect and restore the modiolus habitat in line with the EU's habitats directive.
Marine biologist David Black(ph) of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography says the abyssal plain is at once the most common and least studied habitat in the world.
In Little Loch Broom a bed of the coral-like algae maerl was identified as one of the richest examples of the habitat in this part of Scotland.
But every day, hundreds of ASF volunteers battle for the species on the ground, rebuilding and restoring river and fish-spawning habitat in the Atlantic Canada provinces and Maine.
Apparently they've managed to create some supa' fast memory chips by coating 30-nanometer-long bits of tobacco mosaic virus (pictured above in its natural habitat) with itsy-bitsy platinum nanoparticles.
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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.
In fact, according to the New York State Biodiversity Research Institute, that man-caused influence comes in fifth behind habitat degradation and loss, non-native invasive species, pollution, and overuse of resources.
If you take the numbers counted, give consideration to their catholic tastes in terms of habitat, the density at which they can breed, and scale it up, the estimate is 53, 900 pairs!
Researchers at the University of Arizona's Controlled Environment Agriculture Center (CEAC), in collaboration with Sadler Machine Company (SMC), have come up with one solution: to house plants and astronauts in an inflatable habitat.
The monkeys are wild, but they are accustomed to visitors, and more importantly, the guides know where they hang out, so kids can see the monkeys howling it up in their natural habitat.
Earlier the inquiry at Lymington Town Hall heard that Wightlink had agreed with Natural England that material dredged from the river would be used to replenish Boiler Marsh, a natural habitat in Lymington Harbour.
In the framework of efforts to reduce Co2 gas emissions, the Executive Heads participated in the inauguration of the new energy efficient office building for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN-Habitat in Nairobi.
Joseph Garner, of Stanford University, thinks the answer is to keep the labs cool, but let mice cope with the low temperatures as they do in their natural habitat: not by eating more but by building nests.
The Maryland researchers concluded that while many fish launch out of the water into the air to capture prey, migrate, or avoid predators, the guppies have a different evolutionary motive: to reach all the available habitat in Trinidad's mountain streams.
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