Sentence examples for acting as keystone from inspiring English sources

Our findings demonstrate that individual remnant trees contribute to landscape-level conservation of bird diversity, acting as keystone habitat structures by providing critical resources for species that could not persist in otherwise treeless agricultural fields.

In forest environments, drove roads increased ant species richness at the local scale, acting as clear keystone structures.

In a 1944 article for Partisan Review he wrote: "The function of the King in promoting stability and acting as a sort of keystone in a non-democratic society is, of course, obvious.

The tortoises are a keystone species, acting as ecosystem engineers which help in plant seed dispersal, trampling down brush and thinning the understory of vegetation (allowing light to penetrate and germination to occur).

Mistletoe is thus acting as what ecologists refer to as a keystone species: it supports an entire ecosystem, and removing it has drastic effects for the whole.Clearly, those effects are much greater than just a loss of berries and nesting sites.

(He is acting as his own lawyer).

"You are acting as if nothing happened".

They are acting as assassins".

Erica acting as the interviewer.

"We were acting as firemen," he says.

Oil is acting as an alternative currency.