Sentences with phrase «species coexist»

Dining separately may be what lets the two species coexist in Antarctica, Friedlaender says.

The oft - fatal attraction may explain why the native species is apparently in decline where the species coexist, the researchers say.

«This broadens our knowledge of the mix of molecular species coexisting in the nuclei of Jovian - family comets, and the differences that exist after many trips around the Sun.»

... If the dates are right, we have three different species coexisting at the same time...» Science, V. 274, p. 1841, 12/13/1996

In other words, the benefit of the whole community (different songbird species coexisting) far outweighs the differences among individual species when taking on a predator (owl).

Not exact matches

While you're at it explain ANY of Noah and how Polar Bears and Elephants coexisted on 1 400 foot wooden arch and how even two of each of the 150,000 species of BEETLE made it onboard and oh what they all ate when the waters receded.

Neanderthals and hobbits aren't the only species that may have coexisted with modern humans.

Example: Cro - Magnons and Neanderthals were not 2 points in an evolutionary line, but rather two separate species of upright - walking hominids; they coexisted, but one was smarter and more dominant, and the other died off.

The coffee is being grown inside Indonesia's Bukit Barisan Selatan National Park, which has over 300 bird species and is one of the few places where the endangered Sumatran subspecies of tigers, elephants, and rhinos coexist.

Lordkipanidze and his colleagues say that the new skull supports the idea that the many species of hominin thought to have coexisted during this period are, in fact, a single species, H. erectus, which is simply more variable in appearance than previously thought.

Of these, six species would have coexisted at any one time, including two types of ankylosaurs (tank - like armoured dinosaurs), two types of hadrosaurs (duck - billed dinosaurs), and two types of ceratopsids (horn - faced dinosaurs).

Researchers theorize that these plant species evolved over millennia to coexist with traditional agriculture.

Throughout the entire United Kingdom, the only species that have survived into the modern era are those that are able to coexist with human domination of the land: others, from beavers to wolves, have been extirpated entirely.

The reason, says study leader Scott Collins of the National Science Foundation, seems to be that mowing opens up a «big, thick canopy» formed by the taller warm - season grasses, allowing sunlight to get through so that «a lot more species can coexist.»

The presence of alligator and Gavialosuchus fossils at several localities in north Florida suggest the two species may have coexisted in places near the coast, he said.

When Jérôme Chave stepped into a tropical forest for the first time, «I was even unable to identify a weed in my backyard at home, and the idea that hundreds of plant species were coexisting peacefully in tiny areas of forest astounded me,» he says.

The two species of bats coexisted for several thousand years.

«The problems were ultimately solved by scientists who clearly defined the problems and by managers and fishermen who sought innovative fishing methods to allow fisheries and protected species to coexist.»

Studies from islands including Flores, Sri Lanka, and others suggest that early colonizers often coexisted with native fauna, perhaps because their populations were smaller and their technology simpler, or because they did not introduce invasive species such as rats and dogs.

Stellar archaeologists had found the stellar equivalent of Neanderthals, a separate but similar species that coexisted with our suspected forebears.

The competitive exclusion principle, sometimes referred to as Gause's Law of competitive exclusion or just Gause's Law, states that two species that compete for the exact same resources can not stably coexist.

Maybe our direct ancestors and Neanderthals largely coexisted (as did many other overlapping hominid species before them), with occasional bouts of quasi-tribal warfare that ebbed and flowed.

As a consequence, competing related species often evolve distinguishing characteristics in areas where they both coexist.

«These are species that have always coexisted at these subalpine sites,» said Theobald.

«So, it appears that, at least in the Misiones province, the jaguar should not be modeled as an umbrella species because the results fail to capture the varied requirements of coexisting species across the breadth of potential habitats.»

But because canine distemper virus can infect so many different species of animals — including many that coexist with tigers as well as the domestic dogs often found on the edges of tiger territory — the big cats can have many opportunities for exposure.

Ants and aphids coexist in a symbiotic relationship that benefits both species.

Ole Seehausen, senior author and Head of Fish Ecology and Evolution at Eawag Aquatic Research, said: «African cichlid fish stand out amongst fish by their incredible richness of species that evolved without geographical isolation and that now coexist within individual lakes.

His chain of oversimplifications leads him into a glaring non-sequitur: «It is thus basic to evolution that if species B evolved from species A, that species A and species B can not coexist for an extended length of time».

Neanderthals and humans coexisted for thousands of years, but the relationship between the two human species was always a bit dysfunctional.

How a large number of plant species can successfully coexist while competing for space and limiting resources has puzzled ecologists for decades.

How the species can coexist while competing for limiting resources has puzzled ecologists for decades.

Our studies in Queensland confirm that species like yellow - spotted goannas learn to avoid toads as food, and so can coexist with toads.

A date younger than 2 million years would support the idea that many Homo species once coexisted in Africa.

In addition, overlap in use of nest sites with coexisting species may increase nest predation rates [21].

Genre shingle Vertigo Films was clever in that respect, transforming the shoestring sci - fier that launched Edwards» career (he graduated directly to «Godzilla») into a franchise, while preserving the notion that any number of pics — not to mention novels, games and other properties — could be created in this world, where the concept of mankind awkwardly coexisting with this invading species provides the throughline.

The movie blends live action and animation with a story that takes place in an alternate version of medieval China in which monsters and humans — two species that once coexisted peacefully — have settled into a more precarious truce.

(ref) At first, these wolf dogs looked quite the same as their wild cousins — the changes were inside, in their personalities and ability to coexist with a different species.

Some coexist with cats, birds, and other types of pets while others will not tolerate other species.

We humans need to learn to coexist with this native species.

The game is set in an expansive high - fantasy world where the player coexists with the likes of kings, knights, wizards, ancient species and various other mythical creatures.

And the non human species with whom we coexist aren't only vulnerable to natural disasters, but also to human induced disasters.

When their habitat is destroyed, they cease to exist, and species that coexist or depend upon those species also become extinct, resulting in the collapse of an entire ecosystem.

Eilperin's book details not just our conflict with sharks, but also the many ways in which humans can coexist with these animals, and the creative ways conservationists are helping to save species.