Sentences with phrase «ecological niche which»

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.

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

Not exact matches

Feminist utopian literature depicts these hidden communities in isolation from patriarchal civilization, which poses a threat to the creative and peaceful ecological niches imagined by women.

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..

Anytime you prohibit some product or activity or service legally which has a demand in society, you create an ecological niche for organized crime to cater to that demand.

«The flies can exploit this ecological niche because they have a larger and sturdier ovipositor, which is capable of penetrating the tougher skins of ripe fruits.

These two host worms were closely related and shared similar morphology and ecological niche, which might allow Inquicus fellatus to infest one of them initially and then also colonise the other.

«Knowing which microbes live in various ecological niches in healthy people allows us to better investigate what goes awry in diseases thought to have a microbial link, like Crohn's disease and obesity,» says George Weinstock, associate director of the Genome Institute at Washington University in St Louis and one of the Human Microbiome Project's principal investigators.

This latest study is one of only a few well - documented examples of what evolutionary biologists call «character displacement,» in which similar species competing with each other evolve differences to take advantage of different ecological niches.

The latest technique for making these predictions is so - called ecological niche modelling, in which researchers log the locations of known species sightings, then gather environmental data for those places to define the ecological limits of the species» range.

In this study, the research team, which included scientists from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Oxford University (UK) and the University of Toronto (Canada), established the ecological niche for Zika virus in the Americas (where Zika virus transmission has been reported or where conditions are suitable).

«This is possibly one of the best examples of ecological speciation, that is the process by which selection generates new species, in the marine environment because the species evolved by adapting to different ecological niches, rather than by being separated by geographic barriers for a very long time,» says Paolo Momigliano, post-doctoral researcher from the Ecological Genetics Reseecological speciation, that is the process by which selection generates new species, in the marine environment because the species evolved by adapting to different ecological niches, rather than by being separated by geographic barriers for a very long time,» says Paolo Momigliano, post-doctoral researcher from the Ecological Genetics Reseecological niches, rather than by being separated by geographic barriers for a very long time,» says Paolo Momigliano, post-doctoral researcher from the Ecological Genetics ReseEcological Genetics Research Unit.

Tan and other researchers in the laboratory of Georgia Tech Professor Lin Jiang tested that hypothesis using P. fluorescens, which rapidly evolves into two general phenotypes differentiated by the ecological niches they adopt in static test tube microcosms.

This paleo climatic data and the distribution of archaeological sites associated with the HP, as well of that of the Still Bay tradition, which existed in the same environments about 5,000 years before (76,000 to 71,000 years ago), enabled the researchers to model the emergence of these traditions with two predictive algorithms that permitted them to reconstruct the ecological niche associated with each tradition and determine whether these niches differed significantly through time.

Although an evolutionary innovation can open up new ecological niches, traits which are essentially beneficial can put species at a disadvantage in the context of rapid environmental changes.

ecological species concept: A concept of species, according to which a species is a set of organisms adapted to a particular, discrete set of resources (or «niche») in the environment.

Perhaps a better approach is to allow for people to act the way people tend to do, but design systems such that people have their own ecological niche, which, through good design, allows them to behave in self - interested ways that benefit the common good.

Given no better models or reasoning, we can only assume that the new ecological niche will create new biomass opportunities (which as I've said earlier, is only a one - time reduction in CO2) at the expense of the biomass currently exploiting the current niche.

There are also reasons to believe that the effects of television may in fact be different by different levels of parental education and cognitive ability.13,16,18 - 20 Jordan19 has proposed an «ecological» paradigm for media research, in which the effects of television viewing may be different within distinct sociocultural niches.