Sentences with phrase «ecological niche on»

In the course of their spread from South America to North America via the Caribbean islands, anole lizards established themselves in every possible ecological niche on the ground and in the trees.

Spend 10 days sailing Indonesia in one of the most noteworthy ecological niches on the planet: Raja Ampat.

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So on average I think there's likely to be some froth or overvaluation in companies that are going to be No. 2 in an economic - ecological niche.

Marsupials have evolved in Australia several forms which occupy ecological niches held on other continents by placental mammals — wolf - like, squirrel - like, mole - like, woodchuck - like, etc..

The «ecological» concept focuses on ecological niches or adaptive zones.

Using data from several sources on 162 terrestrial animals and plants unique (endemic) to the Albertine Rift, the researchers used ecological niche modeling (computer models) to determine the extent of habitat already lost due to agriculture, and to estimate the future loss of habitat as a result of climate change.

They used these location data to define each species» ecological niche based on four conditions: temperature, precipitation, elevation, and vegetation.

The authors point out that extreme sized animals tend to be found on islands because they fill ecological niches left unexploited by other organisms that never made it to the island.

The research, publishing on March 24 in the Open Access journal PLOS Biology, identifies 122 new types of RNA bacteriophages in diverse ecological niches, providing an opportunity to define their contributions to ecology, and potentially to fight bacterial infections, particularly those resistant to antibiotics.

«Life on Earth has radiated into every conceivable — and in some cases almost inconceivable — ecological niche,» says Chris Impey of the University of Arizona in Tucson, US.

He collaborated on the article «Maximum Entropy - Based Ecological Niche Model and Bio-Climatic Determinants of Lone Star Tick (Amblyomma americanum) Niche» with faculty from Kansas State University's entomology and geography departments as well as other experts in the College of Veterinary Medicine.

That picture has begun to change, however, with the discovery of a number of early mammals that were well adapted to a variety of ecological niches, including eating plants that huge vegetarian dinosaurs also munched on.

Furthermore, only recently have researchers been able to consider both the ecological relationships among krill predators (e.g., niche overlap) and the potential effects of climate change on those relationships, specifically as they relate to the availability of their krill prey [14].

They fill the ecological niches occupied in other places by rodents and rabbits — some live in the desert, others in the rainforest, some are herbivorous, while others dine mostly on insects.

I know little on the subject but you brought to my mind the ecological niche, where integration and adaptation seem to occur by virtue of the?

Newer research shows even more subtle genetic adaptations to dietary and other ecological niches which are adaptations to grains on a smaller scale.

On the mainland and offshore islands, across every single ecological niche from the arid lands to our World Heritage rainforests, it's mopping up the remnants of Australia's rich and unique biodiversity.

On one point, extinction of any one line may be forever, but the presumption that ecological niches will never be filled by equally valuable species that adapt later to fill them is wrong.

True biotope entirely recyclable, this floating Ecopolis tends thus towards the positive eco-accountancy of the building in the oceanic ecosystems by producing and softening itself the oxygen and the electricity, by recycling the CO2 and the waste, by purifying and softening biologically the used waters and by integrating ecological niches, aquaculture fields and biotic corridors on and under its body to meet its own food needs.

Targeting a seminal species in the food web commonly serves science by predicting potentially wide - ranging impacts on the entire ecological niche which depends upon that species for survival.

In 1996, Japanese scientists discovered A. marina living on the light left over by Chl a organisms and able to stretch into the far - red and near - infrared through the novel pigment Chl d instead of Chl a. Research at GISS has quantified the photon energy use efficiency of A. marina in comparison to Chl a organisms, and is now turned toward investigating its light regime in nature to ascertain its kinetics of light use and competitive ecological niche.