Sentences with phrase «found ecological niches»

Also like the Australian dingo, there is controversy around the classification — is it a primitive breed of domestic dog that found an ecological niche and returned to being wild, or a unique subspecies of wolf that evolved without human intervention, or somewhere in between?

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

Not exact matches

The findings help resolve long - standing questions about whether eastern coyotes have filled the ecological niche left vacant when the eastern wolf became threatened, Benson said.

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.

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.

Over generations, the animals changed and adapted themselves to their respective environments, finding their way into as yet unoccupied ecological niches.

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).

Part of the answer can be found in a new study appearing this week in Science that shows how the sudden emergence of just one or two new genes can profoundly transform organisms» appearance, behavior and ecological niche.

In this study, the team found that the snow leopard had unique amino - acid changes in both genes that may have contributed to snow leopard's acquisition of an alpine, high altitude ecological niche.