Sentences with phrase «observing plant populations»

Not exact matches

It has been observed in both lab and field how some plant and animal species have developed or split into two such that the populations can no longer interbreed to produce fertile offspring.

Scientists from the universities of Granada and Almería have now carried out an exhaustive analysis of the populations of this species, and have observed that the plants found in Málaga differ significantly from those found in Granada: they have flowers with a long and straight spur, which are uniform in colour and intensely violet, except for a yellow spot at the entrance to the tube of the corolla (the area called the palate), with subtle violet veins.

«These results warn against drawing over-optimistic conclusions from the relatively modest loss of mountain plant populations likely to be observed during the coming decades», says Stefan Dullinger from the University of Vienna, «because the final consequences of climate warming on plant distribution in the Alps will only become realized with a delay of decades or even centuries.»

However, individual species vary widely in observed dispersal velocity (Chen et al., 2011), and several studies report many plant populations lagging behind recent warming (Zhu et al., 2012, Corlett and Westcott, 2013).

Wildlife Biologists observe plant and animal behavior patterns, collect data and determine conclusions from specific habitats to determine environmental and population dynamics.