"island" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Theoretically, forest fragments take on the characteristics of habitat islands in proportion to their degree of and length of time of isolation (Harris 1984).
- All of the structures were undamaged; however, two small natural habitat islands, Round and Disappearing Islands, were affected substantially.
- Widespread development has squeezed the animals into "habitat islands," or small areas where a shortage of food forces them to forage on private property.
- Island biogeography theory also led to the development of habitat corridors as a conservation tool to increase connectivity between habitat islands.
- There once were tigers and Malayan sun bears here, but today it's a habitat island that still suffers from timber poaching.
- The peak is an isolated habitat island on which endemic invertebrates and plant species have existed for millions of years.
- Type two is secondary or "satellite" habitat "islands" which occur in native grasslands on smaller serpentine outcrops.
- One reason for the very high level of endemism is that the geomorphology is diverse, resulting in habitat islands where distinct subspecies have evolved.
- Transitional waters tend to be biodiverse; each case is a "habitat island" due to variability of the environmental, or abiotic, factors from locality to locality.
- American pikas, however, cannot easily migrate in response to climate change, as their habitat is currently restricted to small, disconnected habitat "islands" in numerous mountain ranges.
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