Sentences with phrase «different island populations»

And it might even show how the practice may have been transferred between different island populations.

Not exact matches

If overwash becomes too severe, populations will have to consider relocating to a different island or perhaps a different country.

Eighty percent of a population of Burmese long - tailed macaques on an island in southern Thailand use stone and shell tools to crack open seafood, and do so using 17 different action patterns, according to a study published May 13, 2015 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Amanda Tan from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and colleagues, under an 8 year field project led by Michael D Gumert, also from NTU.

«It's like a giant natural experiment with populations spread across hundreds of islands with different political institutions and modes of subsistence.

But populations on the two islands experienced markedly different fates over the next 11 months.

«The populations on the islands have very different genetic compositions.

The researchers find that Italian sparrow populations from different islands probably result from independent hybridization events between their parent species, the house sparrow and Spanish sparrow.

They analyzed 15 different locations in the birds» DNA and found that it's likely that the Kapiti Island population, which at some 1200 birds is by far the biggest, is losing some of its precious genetic variation with every generation, for reasons that are unclear.

These species were introduced by people at different stages in the island's human history and became invasive, negatively impacting wildlife populations and island food security for the small human population.

This survey should provide an updated list of breeding sites, a good estimate of the size of the population, and data about survival rate of different age classes: together with the high resolution data from our intensive study of Sea Lion Island this new information should provide the parameters needed to determine the current status of the population and forecast its future.

Sea Lion Island shelter a small, localized population of elephant seals, that we are studying in great detail by marking almost all breeding individuals every season, by spending a large amount of time in the field doing behavioural observations, and by using a mixture of different techniques to gather accurate measurements of different aspects of individual phenotype of males and females.

Rene Vellanoweth, an archaeologist, believes that inbreeding depression can be managed by mixing the different island fox subspecies populations much as the indigenous peoples did, by moving them from island to island, creating a higher genetic diversity and assisting them in recovery.

Over 8000 of these islands are inhabited and the population speaks over 300 different languages, Indonesia is rightfully proud of its» motto «Unity in Diversity».