Sentences with phrase «isolated small fragments»

Not exact matches

Except that in this case, the fragment was too small to produce anything but a very large, very cold, and extremely isolated planet.

In the new study, a team led by Wiktorowicz ground up a small portion of each of the pottery fragments (or sherds), used detergent and other chemicals to dislodge any proteins stuck to them, and isolated and analyzed the protein fragments using various techniques.

Such small, isolated populations are essentially doomed: even if the forest fragments survive, sooner or later dwindling gene pools or disasters such as forest fires and disease outbreaks will wipe them out.

«We show that there are always the same few common species in small, isolated secondary forest fragments, so each time you go to another piece of forest, you will encounter the same common birds, a phenomenon called biotic homogenisation.

Unlike the large - scale paintings, Rauch's smaller works are softer and more graphic, with isolated figures and deserted landscapes, like fragments from completed pictures that have become independent.

As pockets of forest habitat are isolated, their edges are exposed to harsher, brighter, drier conditions and plant and animal dispersal between habitat fragments is made more difficult; in addition, habitat fragments may be too small to sustain populations of some species.