Sentences with phrase «beetle species»

The warming of the northern hemisphere will result in the northern spread of several beetle species and the faster growth of fungal infections.

Here I'll try to give background on the issues related to bark beetle outbreaks, working from proximate to ultimate causes, and focusing on the one beetle species currently doing by far the most damage, the mountain pine beetle (MPB), Dendroctonus ponderosae.

As the climate has warmed, various beetle species have marauded across the landscape, from Arizona to Alaska.

It is widely accepted that aggressive beetle species overwhelm the trees» physiological abilities to produce defensive tissues and chemicals by recruiting threshold numbers of individuals (Christiansen [1985]; Wallin and Raffa [2000], [2004]; Huber et al. [2004]; Franceschi et al. [2005]-RRB-.

«Macaques and gibbons are known to disappear completely from forests which have been converted to rubber, and our review shows that numbers of bird, bat and beetle species can decline by up to 75 percent.»

[T] he standing value of timber dropped from $ 10,460 per hectare to $ 2,010 per hectare after two logging rotations, yet these forests retained over 75 percent of bird and dung beetle species found in primary unlogged forest.

With jewel - like collage art, this over-sized edition examines different beetle species and their distinctive characteristics.

This is a male specimen of the new long - horned beetle species Borneostyrax cristatus gen. et sp. nov..

The deceit is so successful that it has evolved independently in at least 12 parasitic rove beetle species — a phenomenon called convergent evolution.

Researchers announced the discovery of 98 beetle species previously unknown to science.

«When you combine the current increase in meat consumption around the world with the steep declines in many dung beetle species, overall emissions from cattle farming can only increase.»

Yet many dead - wood beetle species are dependent on such large - sized wood, because the rotten trunks provide them with stable and sufficiently humid long - term habitats.

While some of the used poisons are derived from certain plants, others have been found to come from specific beetle species.

That's why Will and his adviser, entomologist James Liebherr, were surprised to find a new beetle species in Cornell's collection, one that had escaped the scrutiny of bug experts for 85 years.

Cephaloleichnites strongi, as the new species has been dubbed, represents the earliest known rolled - leaf beetle species, hundreds of which still exist today.

As ecologist Donald Strong — the beetle's namesake — showed in the 1970's, each beetle species leaves a unique chew mark on the plant's leaves.

«Love conquers all: A new beetle species from Cambodia named after Venus.»

To demonstrate this, the authors used an engineering technology called finite element analysis — computer modeling of a structure to calculate the strains and stresses experienced when different forces are applied to it — to simulate the mechanical performance of the weapons of different rhinoceros beetle species under both the species» own style of battle and other species» fighting styles.

Meanwhile, Elias and others discovered the presence of certain beetle species that live only in specific temperature zones, suggesting that the temperatures on the land bridge during that time would have been relatively mild compared to other regions.

«Even though it is known that some beetle species use their fecal excretions to pass information to their conspecifics, we were surprised about how highly attractive even the smallest amounts of frass were to vinegar flies,» reports Ian Keesey, the first author of the study.

In addition, the team found that some of the beetle species that used the same pheromone stayed true to their species by segregating their mating activity by season of the year.

The research team's paper, «Cerambycid beetle species with similar pheromones are segregated by phenology and minor pheromone components,» is featured on the cover of the May issue of the Journal of Chemical Ecology.

«Contrary to expectations, we found concave - shaped relationships between logging intensity and biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, demonstrating that sensitive dung beetle species and important processes may be lost following even low intensity anthropogenic forest disturbances,» said co-author Professor Jos Barlow of Lancaster University.

«The dung beetle species richness and biomass, and the soil removal rates were negatively affected by increasing the logging intensity.»

While carrying out a biodiversity study, a Mexican - Italian research team discovered three new dung beetle species in montane forests disturbed by livestock grazing.

«So I was really surprised when I discovered three dung beetle species.»

Six hundred significant beetle species are covered in color.

Not exact matches

But no human being will ever be able to be enriched by the experience of hundreds of thousands of species of beetles.

A bit of «back of the envelope» math quickly shows that «Noah's Ark» would actually have to have been an armada of ships bigger than the D Day invasion force, manned by thousands and thousands of people — and this is without including the World's 300,000 current species of plants, none of which could walk merrily in twos onto the Ark, nor the 400,000 species of beetles, nor the gnats that live for a few hours, nor for that matter, human beings!

While you're at it explain ANY of Noah and how Polar Bears and Elephants coexisted on 1 400 foot wooden arch and how even two of each of the 150,000 species of BEETLE made it onboard and oh what they all ate when the waters receded.

Hell, there are over 300,000 distinct species of beetle.

You ignorant nutters have to believe in a super duper double top secret magical hyper macroevolution to account for all these species of beetle!

And since you nutters claim that Noah would have one «kind» of beetle on the boat, that means that a brand new species of beetle had to evolve every 5 days for the past 4,000 years!

Yes now she can babble mindlessly about talking snakes, talking fiery bushes, big boats that held 250,000 species of beetle along with wooly mammoths and snow leopards, guys that floated into the clouds in front of everyone (yet somehow the Jews and Arabs still just don't buy that he was the saviour), parted water / wine to water / walking on water / healing water, food from the sky....

If someone were to create this planet, universe, and all the life that exists, they wouldn't waste their time creating 350,000 different species of beetles, or 12,000 different species of roundworm, or the countless number of other species that have inhabited the earth.

One study suggests arthropod diversity alone — wasps, beetles, spiders, ants — found on a single tree species in shade - grown coffee plantations approximates that found under similar conditions in undisturbed tropical forest.

With 300,000 named species, beetles comprise about a quarter of the grand total of 1,122,637 known species of life.

Did you know beetles make up about 40 % of insect species?

Now, in the main collection here we have, as I said, about 260 or 270,000 species represented of beetles.

With 350,000 known species, and scientific estimates that millions more have yet to be identified, the beetle's abundance is as indisputable as is its variety.

Darwin's beautiful idea explains why there are hundreds of thousands of species of beetles and flowering plants, why birds» feathers are ideal for flight and insulation, and why a desert plant possesses hairy leaves to reduce water loss.

In species like the flour beetle (Tribolium castaneum), the behavior may also impart a reproductive advantage, since studies have shown that cannibalistic individuals produce more eggs than non-cannibals.

Tree Eaters On The Loose Bark beetles, a group of species that includes the mountain pine beetle, western pine beetle, and pine engraver, have thrived in North American forests for at least 12,000 years.

Pinyon pine, an iconic and dominant species in the West, has suffered nearly 100 % mortality at sites in Colorado and Arizona, where climate change has made trees more susceptible to bark beetle outbreaks that in turn result in increased wildfires.

Plus, it is essential to get routine down in determining the species of larvae, pupae, adult flies, and beetles — which is a frustrating, painstaking process.

Adult ground beetles of the genus Calosoma fit the bill perfectly as they eat a variety of caterpillar species in the wild and take down prey bigger than themselves.

Now, research from Florida State University has illuminated the piecemeal patterns of recolonization among a hardy species of beetle regularly affected by these managed burns.

«The principles demonstrated with this beetle could also apply to other, rarer species vulnerable to frequent fires.»

In species with biparental care, such as burying beetles, most birds and humans, our results indicate that males are followers not leaders in the evolution of family life.

While studying their diversity at conserved forests and cattle grazing sites across the mountains of Mexico, the researchers found some new species of dung beetles.