Sentence examples for Ecological shift from inspiring English sources

But it's like an ecological shift.

The abrupt ecological shift at the Permian Triassic boundary was coincident with and interrelated to a change in landscape attributes and fluvial style.

Swamp sparrows provide an excellent system in which to test the hypothesis that geographic variation results from genetically-based adaptation to a recent ecological shift from inland freshwater marshes to tidal salt marshes.

However, there are few studies that have actually demonstrated this ecological shift.

This study investigates how this extreme ecological shift has influenced disparity (morphological diversity) and rates of evolution in pinniped skulls, in comparison to their fissiped relatives.

Dental caries is a mixed species infection caused by an ecological shift from commensal toward cariogenic streptococci [ 2- 4], including Streptococcus mutans [ 3].

Furthermore, although we find some evidence for the role of ecology in speciation, ecological shifts did not show the associations with range overlap expected under sympatric speciation.

Meteorological and ecological shifts driven by climate change are creating a slow and often unpredictable bloom of novel public health challenges across the United States.

She is largely left to her own devices, but learns at school about the ecological shifts that threaten her ramshackle community.

Here, we use exceptionally well-preserved fossils from western Anatolia to demonstrate range and ecological shifts of the lineage probably leading to some of the modern dragon trees.

We know a tremendous amount about how major groups of organisms originated, how major new adaptations evolved, and how fundamental ecological shifts took place in the great lineages of plants, animals, and other creatures throughout the history of life.