Sentences with phrase «in habitat selection»

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From field studies of plants and animals, researchers have learned that habitat can influence morphology and behavior — particularly sexual selection — in ways that hasten or slow down speciation.

«Or selection pressure for maintaining color vision could have relaxed because it wasn't a big advantage in the habitat or types of hunting used at the time.»

They say this is the first evidence of natural selection maintaining separate specialised types of the same species of fish, each adapting to different habitat depths within a single population spanning two kilometres of depth in the deep sea.

Our findings show that parallel phenotypes can evolve in similar habitats and due to similar selection pressure, however, not necessarily in parallel evolutionary sequence,» explains the evolutionary biologist from Konstanz.

«Our observation that groups matched their compositions to the one optimal at their site of origin (regardless of their current habitat) is particularly important,» Pruitt and Goodnight write, «given that many respected researchers have argued that group selection can not lead to group adaptation except in clonal groups and that group selection theory is inefficient and bankrupt.»

Christopher Peck and colleagues used GPS telemetry data from males like this one to predict the behavior and habitat selection of bears exploring landscapes outside the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, on journeys that could bring them into contact with breeding grizzly populations in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem, and vice versa.

The topics covered across the three years are: Biology Humans as organisms - health, diet, exercise, nervous system, disease and control Living processes - respiration, reproduction, transport in cells, Variation, evolution, inheritance & genetics - cloning, mutation and natural selection Ecosystems and habitats - food webs, interdependence and extinction

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Some have suggested that these are hybrid coyotes whose parents mated with wolves; however, it is also possible that natural selection has allowed the survival of larger sized lines from successful populations residing in richer habitats.

Further, the influence of fire intensity on selection of habitat by cats was strongly affected by whether the habitats in question supported high densities of small mammals: sites in mammal - rich habitats that had recently been burnt at high intensity were especially strongly favoured.

Fauchald, P. & Tveraa, T. Using first passage time in the analysis of area - restricted search and habitat selection.

To test for such an interaction, we investigated fine - scale habitat selection by feral cats in relation to fire, grazing and small - mammal abundance.

Population trends of North Finnish land birds in relation to their habitat selection and changes in forest structure.

If you are looking for somewhere to do your PADI Advanced Open Water Course and want to see a wide selection of canarian marine life and habitats, then the best place to do it is in the Marine Reserve at El Cabrón near Arinaga.

Starling decided to return a selection of the plants to their natural habitat in southern Spain, documenting his journey through the UK, France and Spain.

Winter habitat selection by caribou in relation to lichen abundance, wildfires, grazing, and landscape characteristics in northwest Alaska