Sentences with phrase «sympatric with»
Channel Islands slender salamanders are broadly sympatric with black - bellied slender salamanders (B. nigriventris) on Santa Cruz Island, where both species tend to occupy similar habitats (Campbell, 1931b; Schoenherr et al., 1999).
https://amphibiaweb.org/
A population refered to B. nigriventris is sympatric with this species on Santa Cruz Island.
Not exact matches
The Jehol birds faced competition with pterosaurs, and occupied sympatric habitats with nonavian theropods, some of which consumed birds.
The East African cichlid fishes of Lake Malawi are ideal for investigating behavioral adaptation to environment, as within genera, fine - scale niche partitioning has resulted in sympatric sister species that live in definable microhabitats with distinct selection pressures.
A recent study found that genetic differentiation was much lower throughout a large fraction of the genome between the now sympatric species pair Helianthus annuus and H. petiolaris, which have diverged for ∼ 1.0 million years, than between more closely related species with non-overlapping geographical ranges [34], [35].
Thus, frequent interaction with humans and reduced predation are likely the most important factors that distinguish the study population from sympatric commensal house mouse populations [16].