Sentence examples for between morphological and ecological from inspiring English sources
In addition, we tested whether dietary breadth mediates the relationship between morphological and ecological factors and extinction risk.
In addition, we also found correlations between morphological and ecological traits driven by water dependence.
Behavioural, ecological, physiological and historical factors can interact to influence the strength of the congruence between morphological and ecological characters [ 78].
To determine whether DDI is mediating the relationship between IUCN ranks and morphological or ecological variables, we performed traditional and phylogenetically-controlled correlations between these morphological and ecological variables and DDI.
In this study, we tested: (1) the hypothesis of the tendency towards terrestriality, with shifts from aquatic to terrestrial breeding and the existence of obligatory intermediate stages; and (2) the association between reproductive modes and morphological and ecological features that are potentially related to water dependency.
We also addressed the association between reproductive modes and the morphological and ecological features.
Given the clear morphological and ecological differences between these two species and the apparent absence of morphologically intermediate individuals [ 31, 34], it seems reasonable to deduce that allele sharing in RAG-2 (see Results), which is limited to the ancestral allele, is the result of incomplete lineage sorting rather than ongoing gene flow between the two species.
In the Southern hemisphere, morphological and ecological differences were noted between some of the five distinct paraphyletic clades of D. antarctica[ 64] and between East and West lineages of D. potatorum in Tasmania [ 61].
The divergence between A. montana and A. laubenfelsii should also be assessed based on morphological and ecological characters, in order to confirm or reject our hypothesis that they form a single species.
