Sentences with phrase «ecological roles cycling»
42 Great Basin springsnails: Living in isolated springs of the Great Basin and Mojave deserts, springsnails play important ecological roles cycling nutrients, filtering water and providing food to other animals.
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Turtles and tortoises are group of reptiles that can play key ecological roles, serving as both predators and prey, contributing to the cycling of nutrients, and acting as seed dispersers.
Another finding was the frequent association between nematodes and bacteria that play important roles in nutrient cycling, an essential ecological process for life on Earth.
Lichens play an important role in ecological processes such as soil formation and nutrient cycling and serve as bioindicators of environmental toxicity.
Turtles can play key ecological roles, serving as both predators and prey, contributing to the cycling of nutrients, and acting as seed dispersers.
Describing new species and their ecological roles, quantifying carbon and energy fluxes in the ecosystem, documenting the annual cycle of ecological processes, identifying hotspots of biological production, and contrasting the ecology of the different arctic seas are the objectives shared by several international and multidisciplinary research efforts that contributed to the Canadian IPY program.