Sentence examples for altered community from inspiring English sources

The altered community composition reflected these metabolic shifts between phases 1 and 2 (Figure 3b).

Fragments with thinner riparian zones had lower beetle richness in warmest seasons and an altered community composition.

Guidebooks produced since 1970 suggest a coarsening progression in sport and an altered community demography, yet these texts also illustrate how change reinforced climbing's values and customs.

Experiments conducted in simple two-patch habitats containing eight protozoa and rotifer species tested how dispersal altered community composition in both communities that were disturbed and communities that connected to refuge communities not subject to disturbance.

Intensive sampling influenced measures of relative abundance of species and thereby altered community structure.

This fauna has recently been severely affected by anthropogenic disturbances (Minckley and Marsh 2009), which have dramatically altered community structure.

Researchers report that obese mice carry altered communities of intestinal bugs, which produce DNA-damaging acid that leave the mice more susceptible to liver cancer.

Habitat alteration has major impacts on biodiversity, but we do not fully understand how changes in vegetation structure alter community interactions among vertebrate predators and their prey.

This observation was not surprising, because change of running manner has been shown to greatly alter community composition for adaptation to environmental changes (Turner et al. 1998; Wells et al. 2009).

Broom (Cytisus scoparius L. (Link)) is a large, deciduous leguminous shrub that can grow rapidly to form dense stands, excluding native plants and altering community structure of prairies, woodlands and young forests (Bossard and Rejmánek 1994; Wearne and Morgan 2004; Caldwell 2006; Prévosto et al. 2006; Wearne and Morgan 2006).

Conversely, changes in top-down pressure can alter community composition by changing prey abundance, behavior, and stoichiometry [30] [32].