Sentences with phrase «nesting habitat selection»

Not exact matches

«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.»

«It suggests that the findings we can manage locally, like pesticides, habitat destruction and planting companion plants, can actually make a difference because these factors can buy pollinators time for natural selection and evolution, thus allowing the species to keep pace with the things that we can't manage locally,» said Galen.

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.»