Sentences with phrase «of species in»

These should be assembled with a specific species or group of species in mind.

There were enough males of each species in the tank to prevent any one male from dominating or any one male taking the brunt of male - on - male intimidation.

While animals within a species tend to mate with others of the species in the same area, new blood flies, walks or swims in all the time.

There are a variety of species in our large animal department including horses, mules, donkeys, goats, sheep and pigs.

If you can find an experienced caregiver of the species in question, try to spend some time visiting and gathering first - hand information.

to the losses of species in grasslands and shore.

Feral cats help themselves to a phenomenal number of species in Australia — 400 different vertebrates.

He now enjoys outdoor activities and working with his wife Emma, on a variety of species in their new home in Minden Nevada.

Out of the millions of species in existence, very few animals have ever been truly domesticated, and of that select list only dogs have reached to status of «man's best friend.»

Like many of the species in this genus, Yang Tao is part of traditional Chinese medicine.

For a pet store to sell birds effectively, it must offer a variety of species in different colors and at various price points.

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment project reports on the loss of species in the last 30 years of the 20th century.

In the Species - Area relationship locations of high biodiversity are examined in terms of the number of species in each location and subjected to a regression of values according to the relationship of increasing numbers of species with increasing area.

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It's pervasive throughout this seemingly casual, meticulously - constructed, 24 - hour baton - pass through bohemian Austin, Texas, in which characters confront intimations of death, their own or that of the species in general, and respond with rhetoric, bemusement, a fatalistic shrug, or a joyride.

One has now left our solar system, entering interstellar space and will remain the last recordings of our species in existence long after we and our planet have perished.

Because of the diversity of species in this classic novel, bringing it to life on the screen has always presented a challenge.

Analysis: The trailer is fantastic and over the top, taking elements from «Jaws» and blending them with «Die Hard» — all with a prehistoric shark that is the largest of its species in history.

Charles Darwin published his theories in the book On the Origin of the Species in 1859.

Speciation of zinc in pumpkin seeds (Cucurbita pepo) and degradation of its species in the human digestive tract.

In fact, Jones and her colleagues conducted the first survey of the species in Madagascar, shortly after another research team made the discovery.

Combining field and lab approaches, Ana's research seeks to understand how aggression shapes the spacing behavior of species in the wild, as well as how the brain controls the acquisition and consolidation of the dominance - subordinate status.

Aedes albopictus adults were collected in three states (Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York) covering most of the known geographic range of this species in northeastern USA.

The stellar classification system is taxonomic, based on type specimens, similar to classification of species in biology: The categories are defined by one or more standard stars for each category and sub-category, with an associated description of the distinguishing features.

To celebrate its 25th year in 2018, the Institute is sequencing 25 new genomes of species in the UK.

PCR is used to amplify a barcode region, such as the 16S or 12S ribosomal RNA genes, and NGS reads are used to identify the variety and abundance of species in samples.

The report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is expected to predict the loss of thousands of species in temperature - sensitive biodiversity hotspots such as the Great Barrier Reef, off the east coast of Australia, if temperatures go on rising.

Europe's large carnivores (brown bears, wolves and lynx) don't know the meaning of borders: 29 of the 33 populations of these species in the EU are transboundary.

And maybe one day, the sun set on part of that continent, stranding half of the species in the dark, where they evolved under a changing atmosphere.

This included building barcode sample by species curves to see how many times we needed to sample to get an accurate estimate of species in a sample.

Accordingly, certain giraffes had longer necks through pure chance, and thereby had an advantage over other members of their species in reaching sources of food that had been hitherto inaccessible to them.

Papers were presented together in 1858 at the Linnaean Society of London, and I rushed to complete The Origin of Species in 13 months, the task that had eluded me for the previous 20 years.

Simply calculating the fraction of species in the database that are woody gave misleading results, due to missing data and sampling bias towards economically important or temperate species.

Both of the endangered species, and 14 of the 19 vulnerable species appear on the roster of species in public aquariums [22](Table 2).

The report uses colored heat maps to represent the variety of species in a given area — warmer colors indicating greater diversity — and are based on the distribution of more than 1,000 fish, crayfish and mussel species in almost 300 watersheds spanning 11 states.

The researchers based their findings on the interaction of species in a community of invertebrates (such as clams, shrimps and worms) obtained from marine seabed samples collected in Galway Bay, Ireland.

This final map provided very specific predictions of which locations offered protection to the greatest number of species in addition to giant pandas.

Biodiversity, it states, doesn't have to be just about the number of a species in an ecosystem.

Yet the future of this species in Malaysian Borneo may rest on the hairy shoulders of this singular beast.

Simultaneous work is being done on the evolutionary histories of species in an ecosystem in an attempt to understand and mitigate the effects of biodiversity loss.

In this respect, the spectrum of species in Lake Victoria is now similar to that found in Lake Tanganyika or in marine habitats, where fish with pharyngeal jaws have existed alongside competitors without such jaws for up to 60 million years and have therefore never become specialized for predation on large fish.

The key to resilience is diversity — both of species in ecosystems and approaches in governance systems.

«We were shooting for understanding what goes on with ant communities that exist in a cooler northern latitude and how their responses compare to the same suite of species in populations that occur in the warmer lower latitude.»

«The Nile perch, preying on cichlids, did indeed decimate stocks of these species in Lake Victoria,» says Matt McGee, who studied the ecology and evolution of fish - eating cichlids for his doctoral thesis at the University of California, Davis, and is now carrying out research on invasive fish species with Ole Seehausen at Eawag and Bern University.

To add to this problem, little is known about the numbers of some species in the wild: there are simply too many species for all of them to be studied.

«We assume this linked to road salt, because most of the species in these recurring groups are highly tolerant of salt; they're actually maritime species that have moved in from the coast.

«The discovery of the site provides a window into the movements and ecology of the species in a region that we were not necessarily expecting to see them in such high numbers.»

The GEF's priority is to help countries to manage their environments, said Gummer, and it is funding projects in countries such as Zimbabwe, the Seychelles and the Philippines, as well as supporting projects aimed at conserving biodiversity and the sustainable use of species in East European and former Soviet Union countries.

A theoretical ecologist, Allesina approached the problem in a way that is «akin to computing how many species of trees we should find in a quadrant given the frequency of the species in a forest,» he says.

Then team members counted the number of plants of each species in each plot.