Sentences with phrase «many different habitats»

Teggart asserted social change results from «the collision of groups from widely different habitats and hence of different idea - systems.

It is important to realize that are many different species of worm, each suited to a different habitat.

«The reason why he was so important and difficult to get is what he did in the Premier League because obviously there are other good strikers in football but the Premier League is a very specific habitat, a different habitat, normally they need some time to adapt and Lukaku plays in Premier League for the last four or five seasons,» Mourinho told reporters.

Studying worms can also give you an opportunity to talk about composting, which creatures live in different habitats, and how some creatures help plants grow!

VISUALS: Shedd Aquarium Postdoctoral Research Associate Dr. Andy Kough has been working alongside partners to survey different habitats around The Bahamas for queen conch.

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Sight is really important in helping animals live, and since animals live in lots of different habitats, vision has evolved a lot.

The biggest differences were between different habitats rather than between different species.

Trapping and handling hundreds of woodrats (also known as packrats), the scientists found that the two species are highly associated with different habitat types, though they may live within meters of each other along the boundary.

The international research team documented the occurrences in different habitats for approximately 10,000 plant species originating from Europe — from which more than 2,500 have naturalized on other continents.

The researchers used GPS tracking to monitor 44 jaguars from 1998 to 2016 across different habitats representing the five biomes and an Atlantic Rainforest remnant in Argentina.

An international research team including Mark van Kleunen, ecology professor at the University of Konstanz, shows for the first time how ties to different habitats control the human - induced spread of European plant species on other continents.

If researchers can trace the bacterium's evolutionary history, they might be able to identify the key mutations that trigger virulence or adaptation to different habitats, for example.

Another factor feeding this fear is the beaver's ability to reproduce in different habitats, a skill that is surprising researchers.

Moths are a species - rich group of insects that occur in different habitats.

Over the spring and the early summer of 2010, a large team of scientists, led by Dr Christian Wurzbacher and Dr Norman Warthmann, affiliated with the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries and the Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Germany (currently at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Australian National University, Australia, respectively), collected a total of 216 samples from 54 locations, encompassing eight different habitats within Lake Stechlin in North - East Germany.

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.

This provides a uniquely clear example of how different specialists within the same species, in this case adaption to life at different habitat depths, can be maintained even within the same geographic population.

It found that local extinctions occurred in about half of the species surveyed across different habitats and taxonomic groups.

It could be due to environmental change, or perhaps mammals had acquired a «critical mass» of «key innovations» — such as live birth, hot bloodedness, and fur — that enabled them to thrive in different habitats and diversify ecologically,» said Dr Close.

The mouth has many different habitats — the nonshedding hard surface of the teeth, the soft, papillate surface of the tongue, the smooth inside of the cheek — and «what grows on the tongue is very different from what grows on the palate or on the teeth,» says Mager.

Nest site preferences in birds evolve over time based upon nest survival rates in different habitats, and may be confounded by the novel cues introduced by non-native plants,» adds Anna Chalfoun of the University of Wyoming, an expert on wildlife - habitat relationships.

One way of understanding such divergent transformations is to view each organism as a machine, adapted to a different habitat and function.

Scientists studying whether wildlife can adapt to climate change should focus on characteristics such as what they eat, how fast they breed and how well they survive in different habitats rather than simply on how far they can move, a conservation biologist at the University of Exeter says.

Spreading through the Americas, one lizard group, the anoles, evolved like Darwin's finches, adapting to different islands and different habitats on the mainland.

Spawning, as well as larval and juvenile development, will often occur in different habitats, and little was known about what the impact of changes in those environments is having on fish development, according to Harvey Walsh, a fisheries biologist at NOAA's Northeast Fisheries Science Center at the Narragansett Laboratory in Rhode Island.

The species involved in the collisions varied between services which operate across different habitats.

«They were not a major target for predators and scavengers because they occupied different habitats,» says Rayner.

Another study looking at lizard family trees will test whether these patterns might play a role in evolution on a larger scale: By giving lizards protection as they move around, stripes may allow them to explore different habitats, increasing the speed at which new species appear.

They are distinct from previously known Saurichthys species in the shape of the head and body, suggesting different habitats and diet.

This is likely important because most lake fish feed in multiple habitats during their lives, and the mercury and caloric content of prey from different habitats can differ.

A decade later, Richard Wrangham, working in both Gombe and the Kibale National Park in Uganda, showed that chimps can act much the same even when they live in different habitats and have different diets.

Today, Madagascar is home to a mosaic of different habitats — a lush rainforest in the east and a dry deciduous forest in the west, separated by largely open highlands.

Let me just say that the larger the landscape scale on which you examine diversity, the more likely you are to get very different habitats in your sample — hills and ravines and bottom lands and river courses — and the neutral theory at present doesn't encompass any heterogeneity of that sort.

It's becoming clear and clearer as people look at different stages of the plant's growth and in different habitats growing next to other plants that the stressors in the environment can really change the chemistry; because most of the medicinal compounds in the plants are what are called secondary compounds, so they are not things essential to the metabolism of the plant like sugar and water and ATP for energy and DNA.

For species conservation it is also important to be able to differentiate between species because with their different characteristics they mostly have different habitat requirements,» says Wiemers.

Professor Poinar continues, «Mammoths were much better at adapting to new habitats than we first thought — we suspect that subgroups of mammoths evolved to deal with local conditions, but maintained genetic continuity by encountering and potentially interbreeding with each other where their two different habitats met, such as at the edge of glaciers and ice sheets.»

Indeed, the species which evolved exhibit innumerable combinations of colours and are adapted to different habitats, such as sandy bottoms, rocky shores or open waters — ranging from the clear shallows to the permanent darkness of the turbid depths.

This also means the birds presented different competition intensity in different habitat types and varying levels of competition to other seed eating species.

Members of the Fellowship Committee also agreed that her proposal stood out from other candidates and follows up on previous Belgian microbiological research in the different habitats surrounding the Princess Elisabeth Station.

«The nearly 4 million hectares of Sabah's forests are a kaleidoscope of many different habitats and management histories, which required a wall - to - wall mapping effort to truly quantify the amount of carbon they contain,» Asner explained.

Research on marine benthos in different habitats coastal, continental shelf, and deep - sea.

This result agrees with the different habitats and ecological roles of each strain, being F113 a rhizospheric bacterium with biocontrol activities (32), similar to UM270; while UK4 is a biofilm former with no attributed plant - associated activity (15).

Assisted adaptation — often defined as management to assist gene flow or selection for specific genetic traits — may be a more useful tool than assisted migration whereby a species is deliberately moved to a different habitat; carefully consider implications of either action Identify potential climate refugia to focus restoration efforts Plant a mix of seeds genetically selected and adapted to likely future and current conditions (McLachlan et al. 2007; McKenney et al. 2009; Aitken and Whitlock 2013; Alfaro et al. 2014)

Distinct snail (Physa) morphotypes from different habitats converge in shell shape and size under common garden conditions.

Researchers found that due to warming waters, the edge of the sharks» range could shift as much as 40 miles poleward per decade, pushing the sharks away from the warming oceans near the equator into different habitats.

This phenomenon, commonly called adaptive radiation, means that the original (homogeneous) species eventually divides into subspecies that can be very different in physical appearance - so - called phenotypic differences - because they have been selected for and adapted to different habitats or specific niches.

The goal of the National Microbiome Initiative is to generate research that elucidates general principles of microbiome behavior by finding commonalities across different habitats.

Brown bears and polar bears have adapted to very different habitats — but they remain very closely related.

He also explain a little about the different habitats which can be created in a pond and how this benefits wildlife — both plants and animals.