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unusual facts about habitat



Actihema msituni

The species name is derived from msituni (the Swahili word for in the forest) and refers to the name of the type locality and the habitat.

Agasthyamalai Hills

The hills are notable as the habitat for over 2,000 species of medicinal plants and as the abode of the Vedic sage Agasthya, founder of the Siddhar practitioners of Rasayana herbal medicine, who is often depicted holding a mortar and pestle.

Alberta Mountain forests

Large areas of natural habitat remain in Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, Kakwa Wildlands, Willmore Wilderness Park, Bugaboo Provincial Park and Ghost River Wilderness Area.

Almindingen

Almindingen's habitat has been described as a "green oasis" or a "Disneyland for nature lovers".

Archer's Lark

The grasses in their habitat, which they need to survive are being destroyed by the Parthenium hysterophorus weed.

Bell's Vireo

Historically, the Least Bell's Vireo was a common to locally abundant species in lowland riparian habitat, ranging from coastal southern California through the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys as far north as Red Bluff in Tehama County.

Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary

Bhimashankar Wildlife Sanctuary was created in the Ambegaon and Khed talukas of Pune District, in the Western Indian state of Maharashtra in order mainly to protect the habitat of the Indian Giant Squirrel.

Bird-voiced tree frog

Its favored habitat is wooded swamps near streams and rivers where the dominant species include cypress, birch, tupelo, and buttonbush.

Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex

The Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex is also well known for being prime Grizzly bear habitat, and the population density of this species is higher there than anywhere else in the lower 48 states.

Bog

Bogs even have distinctive insects; English bogs give a home to a yellow fly called the hairy canary fly (Phaonia jaroschewskii), and bogs in North America are habitat for a butterfly called the bog copper (Lycaena epixanthe).

California Gull

Seriously threatened birds that share the same South Bay habitat include the Snowy Plover and California Least Tern, while less-threatened birds including Black-necked Stilts, American Avocets, Forster's Terns, and Caspian Terns are also preyed upon by the abnormally large flocks of California Gulls.

Calling Lake Provincial Park

The marshy shores of the lake provides nesting grounds for waterfowl and habitat for American White Pelicans and Great Blue Herons.

Chiswell Islands

Starfish, barnacles and other sea life that thrive in a rocky habitat are abundant.

City development index

The City Development Index was developed for the Second United Nations Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II) in 1996 and measures the level of development in cities.

Colombian Grebe

The primary reason was loss of habitat: drainage of wetlands and siltation resulted in higher concentrations of pollutants, causing (eutrophication) across Lake Tota.

Delissea rhytidosperma

The plant's natural habitat is rocky cliffsides in moist forests dominated by Acacia koa.

Dex Hamilton: Alien Entomologist

Jenny 10 (Stephanie Anne Mills) – Created as part of the 'Jenny Project', Jenny 10 now works as Dex's mechanic at The Habitat.

Dorob National Park

It has been alleged that filming in the park in 2012 for the Mad Max sequel Fury Road caused significant damage to the park's habitat.

Dubautia waialealae

Threats to this rare localized endemic plant include damage to the habitat by feral pigs, feral goats, and invasive plant species such as Juncus planifolius and Andropogon virginicus.

Endangered arthropods

Delhi Sands flower-loving fly (Rhaphiomidas terminatus abdominalis), due to severely limited range of habitat and development

Fejervarya nicobariensis

It is relatively common in suitable habitat, particularly on Car Nicobar island.

Fiji Woodswallow

Its natural habitat is tropical moist lowland forests and savannahs, but it has adjusted to human-altered habitats and also lives in cultivated areas; there are even urban populations in Suva and Nadi.

Former UNESCO World Heritage Sites

Poaching and habitat degradation had nearly wiped out the Oryx population.

Gatepost

Gateposts give an additional element of character to the countryside and conurbations, significantly they also play host a habitat for many lichen, moss and liverwort species.

Gyrotoma

They were native to the main channel of the Coosa River in Alabama, where the last suitable habitat was destroyed by the filling of the reservoir Logan Martin Lake in the mid-1960s.

Habitat fragmentation

In the wheat belt of central western New South Wales, Australia, 90% of the native vegetation has been cleared and over 99% of the tall grass prairie of North America has been cleared, resulting in extreme habitat fragmentation.

Jaguarundi

Their presence in Florida is said to have been the work of a writer who at some point imported the animals from their native habitat and released them near his hometown of Chiefland and in other locations across the state.

Jeff Haslam

He has worked at most of Edmonton's theatres, including the Citadel Theatre (Burn This, Hello Dolly and Little Shop of Horrors - for which he won his third Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Award), Theatre Network (Habitat), Shadow Theatre (Almost Maine), Edmonton Opera (South Pacific and HMS Pinafore) as well as with playwrights Marty Chan, Conni Massing, Lyle Victor Albert, Raymond Storey, Doug Curtis, Jocelyn Ahlf, Cathleen Rootsaert and Belinda Cornish.

Karasjok

The inland habitats of Finnmarksvidda are known for their rich bird life with species like Bluethroat preferring areas with scrub.

Lake Hawdon System Important Bird Area

It also provides habitat for Orange-bellied Parrots, Australasian Bitterns, Rufous Bristlebirds and Striated Fieldwrens.

Lavinia Nature Reserve

The reserve provides habitat for many birds and other animals, including the critically endangered Orange-bellied Parrot, the extremely rare King Island subspecies of the Brown Thornbill, and the Southern Hairy Red Snail.

Lewisia brachycalyx

It is native to the mountains of the southwestern United States and Baja California, where it grows in moist habitat such as meadows.

Linanthus bigelovii

It is native to the southwestern United States and northern Mexico where it grows mainly in dry habitat, such as the Sonoran and Mojave Deserts.

Ludwigia decurrens

This plant grows in wet habitat types, often alongside Polygonum and Cyperus species.

Luzula parviflora

It can grow in highly disturbed habitat, as evidenced by its ability to survive volcanic eruption and to thrive in the destroyed ecosystem on the most barren slopes of Mount St. Helens.

Matschie's tree-kangaroo

In 2009 the YUS Conservation Area has been established to protect the habitat of Matschies’ in the northern part of the Huon Peninsula.

Mud adder

Further confirmation of the species' new habitat came with a report on the results of raising water levels for environmental purposes at several sites along the Murray River at the Victoria - New South Wales border, making special note of the snake.

National Museums of Kenya

The National Museum of Kenya was founded by the East Africa Natural History Society (E.A.N.H.S.) in 1910; the Society's main goal was and is to conduct an ongoing critical scientific examination of the natural attributes of the East African habitat.

Outer Brewster Island

It provides a nesting habitat for coastal water birds, including Cormorants, Gulls, Common Eider Ducks, Glossy Ibis and American Oystercatchers.

Piotr Parasiewicz

He is best known as a developer of the Mesohabitat Simulation Model, which provides computer simulation models of instream habitat for fish and mussels.

Pterospoda nigrescens

It occurs at moderate elevations in arid scrub and open woodland habitat, ranging from south-eastern Arizona and the Edwards Plateau of west-central Texas south to at least Durango, Mexico.

Rizal, Cagayan

Mount Malaueg: The Eco-tourism mountain still developing for becoming a pure habitat for rare animal-plant species.

Silbury Hill

The hill's vegetation is species-rich chalk grassland, dominated by Upright Brome and False Oat-grass, but with many species characteristic of this habitat, including a strong population of the rare Knapweed Broomrape.

Sous

The natural vegetation in the Sous is savanna dominated by the Argan (Argania spinosa), a local endemic tree found nowhere else; part of the area is now a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve to protect this unique habitat.

SPAWN

SPAWN’s water conservation program is focused on reducing the impacts of stormwater runoff on local streams and ensuring adequate in stream flow and spawning and rearing habitat for coho salmon and steelhead in the Lagunitas Creek.

Stephen F. Austin State Park

Habitat is typical East Texas riparian, upland areas are mostly pecan trees, while river bottom areas are dominated by cottonwoods and hackberry.

Tasman Island

Areas of grassland remain along with other vegetation communities of heathy scrub, regenerating scrub, sheoak woodland, sedgeland and coastal mosaic.

Trabuco Creek

Aside from the large mammals including mountain lions, coyotes, and bobcats (the last California grizzly bear in the Santa Ana Mountains was shot near Trabuco Canyon) the creek was once a productive habitat for steelhead trout.

Trifolium thompsonii

The Artemisia tridentata/Agropyron spicatum association is a drier habitat which includes many forbs such as Allium acuminatum, Agoseris grandiflora, Lomatium nudicaule, and Lupinus sericeus.

Yonaguni

The island is also the only natural habitat of a distinctive horse breed, the Yonaguni horse.


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