Sentences with word «biogeographic»

It accounts for marine biogeography and connectivity; for example, kelp forests occur in temperate biogeographic regions, whereas coral reefs occur in tropical regions.

These discoveries have suggested the existence of separate biogeographic provinces in the Atlantic and the North West Pacific, the existence of a province including the South West Pacific and Indian Ocean, and a separation of the North East Pacific, North East Pacific Rise, and South East Pacific Rise.

This study provides a new approach to integrating archaeological, paleontological, and biological datasets to examine biogeographic patterns of wild animals and plants and the evolution of endemic and endangered species.

Researchers dubbed this concept the global ocean biogeographic information system (OBIS).

It is no surprise therefore that coastal marine species have shown some of the fastest responses to climate change in any system, with species - specific responses to thermal stress causing poleward shifts in biogeographic distributions towards cooler environments, as well as changes in phenology and regime shifts.

The discovery of this mammal, an ancestor of the present - day rabbit, represents an important biogeographic link that confirms the widespread distribution of this group as well as the relationship between Asia and Europe during this period.

Some of the study participants used a biological definition to discriminate native from non-native species («species from a different biogeographic region»), while others referred to culture («species not familiar to local people»).

«The fundamental importance of this process in freshwater wetlands across broad biogeographic provinces underscores the critical role that anaerobic oxidation of methane plays on Earth, even in freshwater habitats.»

There are a variety of factors that can impact diversity in geographically - clustered ant communities, but it can be difficult to decipher the most important biogeographic influences on these ant populations.

«Impact of invasive species varies with latitude, highlighting need for biogeographic perspective on invasions.»

«Our continental - scale biogeographic perspective allowed us to have some insights into the heterogeneity of invasions that are not possible for smaller scale studies,» she added.

«Because the wild relatives of rice are adapted to different biogeographic ranges and can tolerate many biotic and abiotic stresses, they continue to be an important reservoir for crop improvement.

Overall, our evidence for a separate biogeographic province for the ESR is consistent with the history and present physical environment of the Southern Ocean.

When she spoke to us in September Prof. Boetius suggested that it was possible that Karasik hosts a completely new biogeographic province, inhabited by a fauna previously unknown to science and associated with methane release.

The wildlife sanctuary covers a region of low - lying forested mountains and is located in the middle of a fascinating transition zone that lies between the northern Indochinese and the southern Sundaland biogeographic regions.

Patricia Wepfer, Dr. Benoit Guénard (currently at the University of Hong Kong), and Prof. Evan Economo from the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST) unravelled the web of biogeographic components to find the influences that most significantly affect ant communities.

«There's a lot of biogeographic complexity at Sulawesi.

Some of these new species are restricted to the Colombian Western Cordillera and Chocó biogeographic region.

Montagud explains that the divergence of these lineages, in many cases, matches biogeographic patterns, «which reinforces the logic of these results.

Elucidating the dynamic distribution of organismal lineages has been central to biology since the 19th century, yet the difficulty of combining biogeographic methods with shifts in habitat suitability remains a limitation.

Finally, we evaluated these relationships in several other sponge - inhabiting pontoniine shrimps from the Caribbean as well as other biogeographic regions, by examination of their morphology and diet.

The area also supports the most diverse array of vegetation types in South Africa as five of the country's seven terrestrial biogeographic areas are represented in the Eastern Cape.

Part of the reason the Channel Islands» underwater habitats are so rich with life is that they lie between two extremely diverse biogeographic provinces (the Oregonian and the Californian), and so include the myriad of marine species from both.

Taxonomic and biogeographic relationships of the island fox (Urocyon littoralis) and gray fox (U. cinereoargenteus) from Western North America.

From 2003 through 2005 staff from NOAA's National Center for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) conducted a regional biogeographic study that included further analysis of a range of boundary options.

The Galapagos trench and many other Pacific, Indian Ocean (possibly related to a SW Pacific biogeographic province) and mid-Atlantic trenches have been slowly «unearthed», until recently the faunal diversity was found to be centred on the Antarctic Ocean.

(A) Main biogeographic regions, basins, and administrative divisions of the Mediterranean Sea, (B) Annual mean sea surface temperature (°C)(2003, NOAA), (C) Annual mean relative primary production (2002, Inland and Marine Waters Unit, Institute for Environment and Sustainability, EU Joint Research Centre, Ispra, Italy), and (D) maximum average depth (m)(NOAA).

Evidence from the distinctive fauna, the unique community structure, and multivariate analyses suggest that the Antarctic vent ecosystems represent a new vent biogeographic province.

Biogeographic forcing involves alterations in plant species composition.

There are considerable ecological and biogeographic differences between these forest types, yet the impacts of disturbance are remarkably similar,» Sunderland says.

The approximate orientations and locations of Silurian continents can be reconstructed using a combination of paleomagnetic, paleoclimatic, and biogeographic data.

«This collection of papers is a major step toward understanding the evolutionary history and biogeographic history that have given rise to the species that we see in South American today, and it will play a key role in identifying conservation priorities for species,» Alfaro said.

Mammals underwent profound evolutionary and biogeographic changes at the Paleocene — Eocene boundary.

Grassle solidified his contributions to documenting marine biodiversity by helping launch the Census of Marine Life and the Ocean Biogeographic Information System, which is an essential tool in marine conservation efforts.