Sentences with phrase «environmental niches»

But this nice example of adaptive radiation — a single ancestor giving rise to an array of species all exploiting slightly different environmental niches — has been largely overlooked by biologists before now.

They can also involve modeling species observed environmental niches, or observed physiological processes.

This increased the area of continental shelf, produced shallow seas, thereby also expanding the diversity of environmental niches in which animals could specialize and speciate.

Most species are evolved to live in specific environmental niches, and researchers have long been studying how quickly species» geographic ranges are changing in response to climate change.

According to herpetologist and co-author David Wake, a University of California, Berkeley professor of the graduate school and a curator of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, new frog species likely radiated rapidly throughout the world because so many environmental niches were available after the animals occupying them disappeared.

«We also need to choose particularly suitable environmental niches so that we are not just looking, «under the street lamp» — at environments that we have already previously studied.»

The evolutionary development of the eye is observable even today becuase its various stages are still there in extant species with each stage fulfilling the organism's needs in their respective environmental niches.

Collaborators in the rice - growing world are equipped to apply knowledge to a particular variety of rice growing in a particular environmental niche and eaten by people of a particular culture, she says.

The common bacterium Bacillus cereus, however, possesses a unique resistance to the metal, allowing it to survive in a relatively vacant environmental niche: soil loaded with the adored ore.

As the fish later inhabited new environmental niches within the lakes, new species could form quickly through selection.

Along with that I am also interested in the genetic adaptation events that followed the occupation of diverse environmental niches out of Africa.

The drawings begin as empty environmental niches, become populated, and diversify.

If not, what is it that enables us to push beyond any specific environmental niche, to act beyond what is materially determined, for example to fast despite being hungry?

At PNNL, she leads research into the microbiome, a term for the collective communities of microbes that reside in many environmental niches, including the human gut and soil.

Animals are conditioned by their environmental niche.

A human being who does not receive a purpose and pattern of life from the material factors that make up his environmental niche, rather he sets before himself agoal of his own choosing.

Natural selection presupposes the ordered relationship between animal and its environmental niche.

Moreover, it is a goal that entails us going beyond our environmental niche.

The research results showed that although the two sub-species occupy different climate niches in their respective recession zones, they have kept their environmental niches throughout their evolution.

So far, little is known about the actual physiology of these archaea in their environmental niches or about their potential syntrophic relationships with other organisms, but recent findings highlight the importance and wide occurrence of these metabolic regimes in a wide diversity of archaea from anaerobic environments.

But the evidence around us suggests that this doesn't actually happen: environmental niches are almost always far more complex than the simple set - ups used in most lab experiments, and yet sexual species abound.

The resulting map indicates the number of births in the Americas potentially at risk for ZIKV (for 2015), assuming ZIKV currently fully occupies its environmental niche and that births are evenly distributed throughout the year.

To fully comprehend the challenge of systems biology we need to think beyond piecemeal approaches and instead seek information regarding the multiscale organizational networks that drive an organism to thrive and adapt to any environmental niche.

RE: «I've been told off and on that we'll know society is really absorbing the idea that humans are influencing important Earth systems when the discussion spills out of the environmental niche and into the broader cultural discourse.

«We'll know society is really absorbing the idea that humans are influencing important Earth systems when the discussion spills out of the environmental niche and into the broader cultural discourse.

I've been told off and on that we'll know society is really absorbing the idea that humans are influencing important Earth systems when the discussion spills out of the environmental niche and into the broader cultural discourse.