Sentences with phrase «weedy species»

However, rapid movement by natural dispersal is unlikely on a century time - scale, except for weedy species with short generation time and highly dispersable propagules.

«There will probably be a few weedy species that can handle these nasty conditions, but we'll lose a lot of the biodiversity.»

Over the course of the last two decades, pantropical weedy species declined, while West - African forest species increased in numbers.

Like domestication, de-domestication, or evolution from the crop species of unpalatable weedy species that have many wild - like traits, also seems to have happened twice.

The research also suggests that the microbial succession on a cadaver operates similarly to the colonization that occurs in plant communities, where «at first, weedy species thrive — they scoop up the easy - to - eat stuff,» says DeBruyn.

We'll probably see a transition from really diverse reefs to reefs with fewer species that are tougher, weedier species that can deal with these dramatic conditions.

Not exact matches

«A Wild Weedy Scourge,» page 24 «Resource Heterogeneity, Soil Fertility and Species Diversity: Effects of Clonal Species on Plant Communities,» by J. Alexander Eilts and colleagues in May issue of The American Naturalist describes how plants like cogon grass, which spread through expansive underground networks, reduce biodiversity even in soils that are thought to boost it.

Invasive species or successful colonists or weedy generalists — think kudzu and rats — may be spreading into new places, keeping the local species tally up, even as the planet's overall biodiversity is degraded.

Different corals — fast - growing but short - lived «weedy» species — then took over the reefs, outcompeting most of the remaining tree - like corals.

S. cordicitum and the varieties that are newly elevated to species belong to section Androceras, which is a group of weedy Solanum plants native to the central and southwestern U.S. and Mexico.

I spent my PhD trying to disentangle how selection and drive shape genetic variation in the weedy plant species Capsella grandiflora.

DNA from wheat species that are little more than weedy grasses is bred into wheat using various tricks of the trade.

The authors warn against expanding agriculture in saiga territory, noting that plowing or herbicide use would simply lead to mass growth of the weedy toxic species in the cleared area.

The coral community on the outer reef in South Tarawa is different from that at the other outer reef sites studied; South Tarawa is dominated by the weedy encrusting species Porites rus, while at the other sites the coral community is dominated by massive Porites spp., Heliopora spp., Montipora spp. and Favia spp. [47].

Interestingly, weather and habitat loss has been shown to have a very strong impact on more common species of butterflies, or «weedy» species.

«Some of the «weedy» species have been touted as great success stories, in which native butterflies had successfully adapted to the changed conditions created by European colonization of California.