Habitat
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202 examples of Habitat in a sentence
For example, you could plot the flow of carbon through corporate supply chains in a corporate ecosystem, or the interconnections of
habitat
patches for endangered species in Yosemite National Park.
With an average depth of the oceans of 4,000 meters, in fact, the high seas covers and provides nearly 90 percent of the
habitat
for life on this Earth.
But there has just been a study that was released in February that showed there are 200,000 pieces of plastic per square-kilometer now floating in the surface of the Sargasso Sea, and that is affecting the
habitat
for the many species in their juvenile stages who come to the Sargasso Sea for its protection and its food.
The Sargasso Sea is also a wondrous place for the aggregation of these unique species that have developed to mimic the sargassum
habitat.
It also provides a special
habitat
for these flying fish to lay their eggs.
They're essential to the
habitat.
The waters are all taken in to construct the wetlands for
habitat
restorations.
But when our species arose about 200,000 years ago, sometime after that we quickly walked out of Africa and spread around the entire world, occupying nearly every
habitat
on Earth.
You can find spiders in nearly every terrestrial
habitat.
Incredible
habitat
for half the bird species you find in North America, migrating here.
And also the last refuge for the largest herd of wild bison, and also, of course, critical
habitat
for another whole range of other species.
This type of
habitat
covers more of the Earth's surface than all other habitats combined.
And yet, we know more about the surface of the Moon and about Mars than we do about this habitat, despite the fact that we have yet to extract a gram of food, a breath of oxygen or a drop of water from those bodies.
We have huge grand challenges these days of
habitat
loss.
I'm not one of the many researchers around the world who's looking at the effects of pesticides or diseases or
habitat
loss and poor nutrition on bees.
It provides a surface for things in the ocean, and this surface, which is covered by seaweeds and other organisms in the ocean, will become enhanced marine
habitat
so it increases biodiversity.
That's someone who is designing a
habitat
on another planet's dream.
It turns out that there are swaths of
habitat
in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth.
That's classic thylacine
habitat.
During the day, they have a beautiful, large outdoor habitat, and at night, they come into this habitat, into their night quarters, where they can have a climate-controlled and secure environment to sleep in.
And so does every wild
habitat
on the planet, like the Amazon rainforest you're hearing behind me.
And every soundscape that springs from a wild
habitat
generates its own unique signature, one that contains incredible amounts of information, and it's some of that information I want to share with you today.
The first is the geophony, or the nonbiological sounds that occur in any given habitat, like wind in the trees, water in a stream, waves at the ocean shore, movement of the Earth.
The biophony is all of the sound that's generated by organisms in a given
habitat
at one time and in one place.
What I learned from these encounters was that careful listening gives us incredibly valuable tools by which to evaluate the health of a
habitat
across the entire spectrum of life.
The usual methods of evaluating a
habitat
have been done by visually counting the numbers of species and the numbers of individuals within each species in a given area.
(Frogs croaking) Mono Lake is just to the east of Yosemite National Park in California, and it's a favorite
habitat
of these toads, and it's also favored by U.S. Navy jet pilots, who train in their fighters flying them at speeds exceeding 1,100 kilometers an hour and altitudes only a couple hundred meters above ground level of the Mono Basin, very fast, very low, and so loud that the anthrophony, the human noise, even though it's six and a half kilometers from the frog pond you just heard a second ago, it masked the sound of the chorusing toads.
The good news is that, with a little bit of
habitat
restoration and fewer flights, the frog populations, once diminishing during the 1980s and early '90s, have pretty much returned to normal.
You've heard the impact of resource extraction, human noise and
habitat
destruction.
You've created the perfect malarial mosquito
habitat
that's right outside your door.
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