(v. t.) The natural abode, locality or region of an animal or plant.
(v. t.) Place where anything is commonly found.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ecologic studies of small mammals in Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) were conducted in 1974 in order to identify the specific habitats within the Lower Montane Forest that support Colorado tick fever (CTF) virus.
(2) pipiens disappeared in larval habitats by December but An.
(3) We have a moral duty to conserve them and to educate people about their habitat, health and the threats they face."
(4) Aggregated abundances of G. pulchrum resulted from variation generated across host sex subpopulations, while the dispersion patterns of T. turki appeared to be unaffected by the habitat variables examined in this study.
(5) Eighteen lichens from a variety of habitats were treated with 4-chlorobiphenyl (4-CB).
(6) Anopheles philippinensis, the usual vector in the paddy field habitat, was not present, but 1.4% of parous An.
(7) Seasonal and habitat influences on the egg-laying activity of four species of Culex were compared in south Florida using jar- and vat-type oviposition traps.
(8) The CDC light traps were useful in determining the seasonal and habitat distribution of Anopheles stephensi and An.
(9) It is clear that the metric takes something – biodiversity and habitats – that are inherently very complex and tries to simplify them for easier decision-making.
(10) As part of a concerted effort to avoid the in danger listing, the Queensland government came up with an alternative plan to dump the sediment within an enclosed area of the Caley Valley wetlands, which is considered nationally important habitat for more than 15 species of migratory birds.
(11) Abundance varied between years, related to availability of larval habitats.
(12) Since the epithelium is now known to be the parasite's habitat, its response to infection is important.
(13) The proposed $1.2bn Shenhua coalmine in New South Wales has been given the go-ahead to destroy the habitat of 262 koalas, which will be moved to another location if the mine goes ahead.
(14) People talk about poaching, but in the long-term it’s also about securing space for habitat.
(15) However, it is not the loss of habitat that is causing the current cat crisis in the Cairngorms.
(16) gaps) between species in habitat space, and why are there missing links between species in time as evidenced in the fossil record?
(17) There is, however, a converse way of looking at the situation, Which is often neglected but which may be of general biological interest: does the evolution of adaptations to desert environments necessarily involve loss of viability in more mesic habitats?
(18) These concentration gradients were, however, far less than those reported for bacteria from other habitats.
(19) A large number of source materials were collected for isolating entomopathogenic bacteria from larval mosquito habitats in Kirinyaga District, Kenya.
(20) Culicoides byersi, whose larval habitat was previously unknown, was reared from a cottonwood tree hole.
Heathland
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Enjoy riding through the natural beauty of pine forests and open heathland, before taking the Sand Worm (a tractor-trailer ride) across vast sand dunes to the colliding waves of the North and Baltic seas.
(2) Ten of the 13 species that depend on specific habitats - heathland, coppices, woodland glades, bracken, hedgerows and so on - have fared better on sites where farmers had agreed to tend the landscape with wildlife in mind.
(3) The path runs through a wild and protected area of dunes, woodland and heathlands with views of the islands in the Gulf of Morbihan.
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Coastal heathland around the shack community of Temma on the west coast of Tasmania, which has been reduced to ash after a bushfire.
(5) Specific needs, such as pig-raising or bee-keeping, supported the formation of particular landscapes, e.g., sparsely wooded forests and extensive heathlands.
(6) * According to Wikipedia a chaparral is "a shrubland or heathland plant community found primarily in the US state of California and in the northern portion of the Baja California peninsula, Mexico".
(7) The destruction or conversion of grasslands, heathlands and scrub to grow more crops – often using pesticides – has decimated many bird populations.
(8) Stonechats, warblers and linnets chatter from the heathland.
(9) It involves activities such as restoring heathland, burning brash – cuttings left over from wood management – digging ditches, path widening, coppicing, scrub clearance, fence removal and pond maintenance.
(10) Glover says the commission is not a guardian of our woods, having "for most of its existence ... gone about ripping up ancient forests and heathlands and covering them in industrial coniferous monoculture".
(11) Our rarer blues, the large, chalk hill, Adonis and silver-studded, use very specific habitats; heathland for the latter, southern downland for the first three.
(12) Goonhilly, a sparse heathland at Britain's most southerly point, could have been designed for satellite broadcasts by a benevolent god familiar with the nature of the radio wave.
(13) The rare heathland broad-headed bug was discovered by the trust's biological survey team on Dunkery Beacon in Exmoor, along with the scarce cow-wheat shieldbug.
(14) Chilworth to Guildford, Surrey This eight-mile walk crosses heathland dotted with pretty villages before dropping down to follow the Wey Navigation , where there are many swimming places.
(15) Photograph: Exmoor Tourism Partnership (ETP) The Quantock Hills are a sumptuous mix of woods and heathland, and the birthplace of Romantic poetry.
(16) In a sign of the opposition companies are likely to face from local communities and environmental groups, however, the Countryside Council for Wales warned that the land around the possible mid-Wales source of water for transfer from the Severn to the Thames was home to many protected species including important bog and heathland, and hen harriers, peregrine falcons and merlins.