Sentences with phrase «ecological niches for»

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.

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).

The results, published in the current issue of the journal Science Advances, suggest that the ecological niche for calcifying algae will become narrower in the future.

The results suggest that the ecological niche for calcifying algae will become narrower in the future.

There is no ecological niche for wild domesticated cats; their coats are too thin to keep them warm, or too long for them to keep clean; they don't hibernate and so they freeze to death; they have no food supply except putrid garbage, unless they're fed by one of the thousands of caring women who do this daily.

These dumped cats don't live very long outside: there is no ecological niche for them.

When humans went from mobile hunter / gatherer societies to sedentary villagers, they created a new ecological niche for neighboring wolves.

Shape your animal tribe and find an ecological niche for it to live in!

Not exact matches

«In a country like India, with a high population density and a high level of poverty, virtually every ecological niche is occupied by some occupational or cultural human group for its sustenance.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

It was a kind of ecological niche that no one wanted to occupy, and so it's easy for anything to crawl in there.»

What these shifts provide is a wedge that opens up novel ecological niches, new possibilities for the search engine of evolution to explore.

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.

Our finding is broadly consistent with recent estimates for placental mammals -LSB-(100), but see SM12 (101)-RSB- and thus supports the hypothesis that the K - Pg transition was associated with a rapid species radiation caused by a release of ecological niches following the environmental destruction and species extinctions linked to an asteroid impact (2, 4, 5, 102).

«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.

Hare thinks bonobos became domesticated by occupying an ecological niche that favored selection for less aggressive tendencies.

While the Still Bay era is also characterised by highly innovative technologies — including engraving of ochre, use of personal ornaments, manufacture of highly stylised bone tools, heating silcrete (red rock) to produce better material for knapping bifacial points (spear points) using hard hammer and finally pressure flaking technology — the research team points out that HP's ecological niche expansion coincides with the development of technological innovations that were both efficient and more flexible than those of the Still Bay.

By looking at variables such as day and night temperatures and seasonal rainfall and vegetation types, for instance, researchers can identify the ecological niches best suited to certain insects.

For these migratory whales, geographical barriers do not exist in the vastness of the ocean, instead some rorquals differentiated by inhabiting different ecological niches.

For this general overview, large collections of SAGs will be analysed at the 18S rDNA level to obtain a biodiversity inventory, and to identify a set of related uncultured lineages potentially occupying a similar ecological niche (i.e. bacterivory) as ascertained by their phylogenetic placement.

Biodiversity can also be explored by investigating how species» traits evolve in close interaction with the environment, for example by analyzing ecological niches.

The reason for that is that their genes were shaped in different ecological niches.»

The science of ecological niches asks how a niche was changed by the introduction of a new animal, for example.

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.

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.

Some species will be so disadvantaged they will go extinct and ecological niches will develop that offer opportunities for new species to arise.

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.