Sentences with phrase «species in a range of environments»

The current interglacial brought a replacement of larger with smaller species in a range of environments.

Not exact matches

The authors cite examples of animals that migrated from mainland environments to colonize an island for which they were too large and those species that grew in response to a new, relatively colossal home range.

In the new study, the authors began with a set of 75 webs of interacting species that other researchers had previously described from a wide range of terrestrial and marine environments.

We study the diversity of life histories and evolutionary adaptations and their limits (including diseases) of free - ranging and captive wildlife species, and their interactions with people and their environment in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

We study the diversity of life histories and evolutionary adaptations and their limits, including diseases, of free - ranging and captive wildlife species, and their interactions with people and their environment in Germany, Europe and worldwide.

More than 30 million people, especially those in urbanized environments, will reside within the Asian tiger mosquito range, and will be potentially subjected to high biting populations of this species and impending arboviral threats.

Plant species environments range from 1 to 7 with ruderal strategy species existing in locations of highest species numbers through competitive to stress tolerant species in more extreme environments.

However, they are not a substitute for providing sheltered cats control over their environment by creating multiple opportunities to engage in any of the full range of natural species behaviors.

Additionally, over 250 species of birds, ranging from water fowl such as pelicans, to majestic bald eagles and horned owls, also call the park home, thanks in part to the wetland environments that make up some of the Elk Island's topography.

Scientists and volunteers who now keep vigil over the seals are trying to outmaneuver the species» extinction in a rapidly changing and sometimes hostile environment by using a range of tactics — including relocating some seals to what they predict will be safer shores.

Despite faster rates of warming in terrestrial systems compared to ocean environments, the velocity of range shifts for marine taxa exceeds those reported for terrestrial species.

A key simplifying assumption is the «equilibrium postulate» [51]--[52] that species» current ranges are in equilibrium with their environment and there are no time lags on the influence of past climate on current species distributions [53].

We addressed questions on the vulnerability of sea urchin larvae to changes in ocean conditions in species from a range of environments (intertidal / subtidal) and latitudes (tropical to polar).