Sentences with phrase «species on»

A mass extinction about 200 million years ago destroyed at least half of the species on Earth, but left the dinosaurs standing.

Acuña et al. (2012)[8] posit that the H. hampei LGT may be responsible for processing galactomannan, which is the most common polysaccharide in coffee beans, thus facilitating specialization of this pest species on coffee plants.

Sharma, professor of integrative biology, came to UW — Madison from the American Museum of Natural History in 2015 and brought with him research on some of the creepiest, crawliest species on the planet, like venomous scorpions from Arizona, tarantulas from Colorado and enormous, blind sea spiders from Antarctica.

The findings may help explain how an ancient, ocean - dwelling invertebrate evolved into one of the most intelligent species on the planet.

Of the 300,000 plant species on earth, we've successfully domesticated less than 200 for large - scale agriculture, and most of the world's farmland is dominated by just three: wheat, corn and rice.

Some, such as the sceptics S. Fred Singer and Dennis Avery, see no danger at all, maintaining that a warmer planet will be beneficial for mankind and other species on the planet and that «corals, trees, birds, mammals, and butterflies are adapting well to the routine reality of changing climate».

Some of the Earth's ecosystems host an exceptionally high number of plant species, and infertile shrublands in warm semi-arid regions support 20 % of the world's plant species on 5 % of the land surface.

«I don't like the argument that we think the niches are taken,» he said, citing the success that many invasive species on Earth have had when pushing into previously occupied niches.

These features distinguish the early species on the Homo lineage from the more apelike early Australopithecus, yet the fossil's primitive, sloping chin links it to a Lucy - like ancestor.

The passenger pigeon was once among the most numerous species on earth.

There are currently more than 900 endangered animal species on the planet, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Dogs are possibly the most varied - looking mammal species on the planet.

Prof. Hildebrandt has made it his mission to save the most endangered mammal species on Earth.

If fibroblasts could be used to create baby birds then the world of bird de-extinction would open up expansively, and the frozen fibroblast cell lines of endangered bird species at the San Diego Frozen Zoo could be used to rescue species on the verge of extinction.

Josh Donlan (Advanced Conservation Strategies, Utah and France) laid out the potential to eradicate invasive species on islands using genomic technology.

Any two species on this planet share a last common ancestor.

Lonesome George Until 2012, Lonesome George was the most endangered species on the planet.

Few species on earth play such a critical role in the food chain.

FunCoup provides interactive facilities for «comparative interactomics» to analyse subnetwork conservation in multiple species on the website.

Introducing NEON: The National Ecological Observatory Network was created to understand and forecast the impacts of climate change, land use change, and invasive species on continental - scale ecology by providing an observational infrastructure to support research, education, and environmental management in these areas.

At that rate, by the year 2400, the oceans may become acidified by the same amount seen in the Great Dying — when nearly every living species on Earth went extinct.

Getting old is something that happens to everyone and nearly every species on this planet, but the question is: should it?

For example, sites in western Europe have lost more than 20 - 30 % of their species on average since the Industrial Revolution (late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries).

Imagine if we can develop protocols to take advantage of the best of technology and build on the most efficient proven practices so that species on the edge of extinction today are recovered a century from now.

Both cultural and genetic evolution worked together to help make us the most cooperative species on earth.

Dinosaurs exploded after a mass extinction, allowing them to become the dominant species on Earth.

I work on something called the Microbiome Project, which estimates that there are well over 50 million bacterial species on Earth.

As Weir points out, it likely owes its survival as a species on being geographically isolated from its parental species at some point during a past ice age when rainforest coverage contracted, and wide rivers formed natural barriers.

By contrast, species on the medium - and high - saltwater panels barely suffered at all.

«Animals start to look different and you see different species on one continent versus another.

«Primates Playing Poker» by Nathaniel Gold Humans are one of the most cooperative species on the planet.

They've already used their findings to advise North Carolina NGO Saving Species on where to invest money in land for conservation.

Tools have helped us to become one of the most successful species on Earth.

Archaeologists with The Australian National University (ANU) have discovered fossils of seven giant rat species on East Timor, with the largest up to 10 times the size of modern rats.

Making molecules of arbitrary complexity on demand is an ability that reinforces humans» position as the dominant species on our planet as much as any other.

To determine which island invaders were doing the most damage, Hanna and her research adviser Marcel Cardillo created and analyzed what she calls a «ridiculously large» database comprising 934 living and extinct populations of 107 mammal species on 323 Australian islands between the early 1800s and today.

Research into nematodes is causing biologists to radically revise their estimates of the number of species on the planet.

The reality is that in order to document, understand and launch conservation strategies, where needed, for most species on this planet, we have to kill and study them.

Discovery of a new insect species on purple loosestrife is unlikely, Kiviat says, but not impossible, given how little attention people pay to loosestrife ecology.

Methods routinely used to estimate the number of species on land suggest that there are many tens of millions of marine species, and up to 100 million nematodes alone, he says.

«The animal species themselves on the other hand can certainly tell the difference, as it is crucial for their reproductive success,» says Sylvia Ritter, PhD student from the Department of Community Ecology at the UFZ.

«What we often assume is that if we lose one species on a reef, there are many others that can step in and take over their job,» Professor Bellwood explains.

Biased and prejudiced, yet a member of the most supremely cooperative species on the planet.

Some have hailed the method as the savior of taxonomy, claiming that in the near future handheld DNA barcoding devices will help identify new species on an unprecedented scale.

Cooke says the evidence supports the idea that the monkeys survived longer than monkey species on other Caribbean islands — long enough to have overlapped with the arrival of native people from South America, around 800 A.D.

Such unique species on so isolated an archipelago led him to wonder if they had adapted over time to their environment.

Sometimes the fervor seems xenophobic: «The American people expect native species on their forest lands,» declared a forest service official recently.

Of all the species on Earth, which one has visited the moon in greatest number?

The researchers said human facial expressions are very similar to other species on the whole, more so than human language, which is unique to humans, but these findings suggest that even though they look the same, they may be produced in different contexts.

Neither are fungi, diatoms, nematodes, tardigrades, slime moulds, algae or most other species on the planet.