Sentences with phrase «species on other continents»

An international research team including Mark van Kleunen, ecology professor at the University of Konstanz, shows for the first time how ties to different habitats control the human - induced spread of European plant species on other continents.

Not exact matches

So far, more than 40 percent of the plant species growing in these habitats in Europe have been established on other continents.

The international research team documented the occurrences in different habitats for approximately 10,000 plant species originating from Europe — from which more than 2,500 have naturalized on other continents.

Subsequently the researchers studied whether plant species from certain habitats have spread particularly strongly on other continents.

As archaic humans, Neanderthals and other hominin species migrated out of Africa, what followed was a wave of size - biased extinction in mammals on all continents that intensified over time.

The origins for reptiles contrast with other famous Australian animal groups including marsupials and birds, which include many more species descended from ancestors that lived on Gondwana, a super continent that included Australia, Antarctica, South America, Africa and Madagascar.

The continent has suffered more than a quarter of all recent mammal extinctions, and many other native species survive only as small populations on one or more of the country's thousands of islands.

The first appearance of dandelion is subject to debate, but most scientists agree that the species emerged from Eurasia and was later introduced to other regions, resulting in its current naturalization on every verdant continent in the world.

It had bottlenose dolphins, marsh rabbits, ghost orchids, moray eels, bald eagles, and countless other species that didn't seem to belong on the same continent, much less in the same ecosystem.

Gregory Andrews, a threatened species commissioner, explained that «Australia is the only continent on Earth other than Antarctica where the animals evolved without cats, which is a reason our wildlife is so vulnerable to them.

A study funded by the European BIOFRESH project mapped 4203 freshwater species and 3521 land species on the African continent against preserves, large dam projects, protected species lists, and other factors.