Sentence examples for a consequence of ecological from inspiring English sources

They concluded that the shift in size was primarily a consequence of ecological responses to climate change that produced milder winters over the previous two decades.

Adaptive radiation is often considered a consequence of ecological opportunity [1], [2] arising through colonization of a new habitat with abundant niche-space, extinction of antagonists, and/or the origin of a key innovation [3].

It has been shown that Ldh variation is associated with differentiation between two closely related Daphnia species that occupy contrasting habitats, and may be a consequence of ecological speciation.

The absence of cod in warmer waters may be a consequence of ecological factors that we do not include within the model: competition from warmer water specialists, temperature effects on food availability, better escape behaviour of warm-water prey or effects on early life stages of cod.

When critically reviewing the concept of resilience, whilst there is more explicit reference to the idea of environmental systems recovery as well as human system recovery [likely a consequence of the ecological systems origins of the concept (Alexander 2013)] the attention to 'timely efficiency' is again entirely anthropocentric in nature.

Classically indirect effects of fragmentation have been defined as a consequence of altered ecological interaction within the communities [1], [6], [37].

Coevolution between pairs of different kind of entities, such as providers and users of information, involves reciprocal selection pressures between them as a consequence of their ecological interaction.

In some instances, as in the case of the inter-domain transfer of PheRS, or the extreme thermophilic bacteria, horizontally acquired genes may come from more evolutionary distant sources, more as a consequence of shared ecological niches [ 13] and may indeed create highways of gene transfer between distant relatives [ 11].

Whilst changes in climate may have impacts on distributions of vector-borne diseases as a direct consequence of ecological pressure on vectors, it is also important to take into account changes in host factors, such as exposure and immunity, in considering health consequences (11).

One hypothesis would be that the bottleneck was a consequence of a narrow ecological niche of A. baumannii.

In this sense, previous studies have suggested that differences in birds' and mammals' diversity patterns can be based in the more restricted distribution ranges of mammals in southern and western zones of the biome [ 41] or could be produced as a consequence of difference in ecological requirements related to habitat use [ 43].