Sentences with phrase «of ecological niches»

Its members have adapted to the demands of a wide range of ecological niches, and many have developed highly specialized feeding habits.

This diversity of geographical characteristics coupled with variable climatic conditions creates an incredible number of ecological niches for flora and fauna to occupy.

The science of ecological niches asks how a niche was changed by the introduction of a new animal, for example.

The bottom line is that the psychological «meaning» attributed to any given social behavior is, in large part, a function of the ecological niche within which it is produced.

What's more, work with animals has led to the idea that personality traits evolve to help individuals survive in a wider variety of ecological niches, and this is influencing the way psychologists think about human personality.

One positive finding of the ecological niche modelling study is that while the ranges of many species are expected to contract, much of the remaining suitable habitat for many species will be located within existing protected areas, and that the recent creation of new reserves such as Itombwe and Kabobo in the Democratic Republic of Congo, have greatly increased the protection of some species under threat by future climate change.

They could still survive in the conditions predicted for 2100, but would grow more slowly, and in their weakened state could be pushed out of their ecological niche by seaweed and other organisms.

On the heels of those discoveries, many paleontologists suspect that the reason for dinosaurs» rapid expansion in the Jurassic is simply that the creatures took advantage of the sudden availability of ecological niches left behind by their long - dead cousins from the Triassic.

It was a kind of ecological niche that no one wanted to occupy, and so it's easy for anything to crawl in there.»

The early wave of colonization began with lots of different - looking fish and over time there was an eventual filling of ecological niches accompanied by a decrease in colonization, Price said.

Inclusion of paleontological data into the modeling of ecological niches of living species might show that many of them could live under very different conditions than today, that their ecological niche is much bigger as assumed.

Several properties of ecological niche modelling in its usual application (i.e., predicting species» geographical ranges) are critically assessed, and some of these problems also apply here.

I understand mangrove is more a description of an ecological niche than a species of tree, but I don't know that any of them have any useful products other than wood and charcoal.

it is precisely our discovery and increasing dependence on high - density fossil fuels over the past 150 years (i.e., oil), that has, solely, allowed the population of the planet to soar 6 times to its currently unsustainable level, the logical consequence of which has become our systematic pollution — to the point of destruction — of every ecological niche on earth.

Grinnell's study investigated how species distributions change with elevation — as a result of his findings he came up with the concept of the ecological niche.

The Child First campaign advocates that the traditional definition of LRE deprives deaf children of the ecological niche that most benefits their linguistic and social emotional development (Ceci, 1990).

That picture has begun to change, however, with the discovery of a number of early mammals that were well adapted to a variety of ecological niches, including eating plants that huge vegetarian dinosaurs also munched on.

Instead, she was likely accompanied by different australopithecines occupying a variety of ecological niches.