Sentences with phrase «of microhabitats»

«We expect that a closer look at ant - other arthropod relationships will yield numerous examples similar to ours and provide a better understanding of the complexities of microhabitat choice and its ecological ramifications.»

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In Sonora and southern Arizona, chiltepíns grow in microhabitats in the transition zone between mountain and desert, which receives as little as ten inches of rain per year.
In Sonora and southern Arizona, chiltepíns grow in microhabitats in the transition zone between mountain and desert, which receive as little as ten inches of rain per year.
Most times you won't find anything of relevance during routine checks, but this way you get the expertise and feeling for what is going on in the complex microhabitats.
This research shows that individual animals» behaviors can increase their chances of survival by allowing flexible, real - time adjustments to the many different microhabitats encountered in the wild.
«This strongly suggests that lizards rest on backgrounds that heighten their own camouflage to reduce the risk of being attacked by birds, and that individual behaviors have an important role in enhancing camouflage across different microhabitats,» says Marshall.
The study, «Relationship between diet and microhabitat use of red - legged salamanders (Plethodon shermani) in southwestern North Carolina,» appeared in the journal Copeia.
Water then interacted with impact - heated rock to enable synthesis of complex organic molecules, and the enclosed crater itself was a microhabitat within which life could flourish.
The East African cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi are ideal for investigating behavioral adaptation to environment, as within genera, fine - scale niche partitioning has resulted in sympatric sister species that live in definable microhabitats with distinct selection pressures.
Comparative genomic analysis from 82 wild and wild - derived species grouped by microhabitat - use identified variation corresponding with one of these QTL, further supporting broad association with habitat use across the Malawi cichlid radiation.
Together, these integrated results suggest that evolution of gene expression at the NCAM locus has accompanied behavioral adaptation to microhabitat, which could ultimately reinforce speciation through spatial isolation.
Even after three decades of work, researchers continue to find new hydrothermal vents in remote locations, new species, adaptations, behaviors and microhabitats — some in well - known settings.
Notably, the portion of the focal region behind the robotic fish identifies the microhabitat in which the flow perturbations induced by the robot beating tail are expected to generate relevant effects on golden shiners» swimming, as demonstrated in [20].
An advantage of clear over white egg mass morphs in metabolically demanding microhabitats suggests a role of symbiotic algae in the maintenance of a polymorphism in the spotted salamander (Ambystoma maculatum).
Corals, branching Acroporids especially, contribute greatly to habitat complexity, or rugosity, of reefs increasing the microhabitats for other reef creatures.»
As art of teaching microhabitats my class and I created one large bug hotel in our garden area, it could also be done in any for...
The eggs, larvae, and pupae develop within microhabitats of carpeting.
Herptiles most often inhabit microhabitats, areas of very specific biological components (temperature, humidity, lighting and decor).
On our Kayak Tour you will explore 3 distinct microhabitats in what the Kumeyaay Native Americans named Woholle or «the land of holes».
They are exploring ways of integrating this network with local community garden activity; enabling data from these microhabitats to affect the communication system.
The team used drone flights, regular sampling, and a series of reference poles to track how seven different microhabitats — among them streams, bare ice, and slush — were evolving in terms of albedo, cryoconite formation, and biological activity.
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