Sentence examples for biotic exchange from inspiring English sources
Traditionally, the view has been that animals migrated between the Americas through the Isthmus of Panama, in what is known as the great American biotic exchange, in seven significant waves.
Fossil evidence suggests that biotic exchange between the two parts of Beringia was limited during the Pleistocene; populations of steppe insects did not move across the Bering Land Bridge (BLB), while tundra species had more flexibility.
This approach has recently been used in continental biogeography to infer rates of biotic exchange between ecological and geographically isolated regions in Africa (Sanmartín et al. 2010).
The patterns of biotic exchange have been controlled by the history of climatic and hydrographical circumstances, but also by the thermal tolerance and dispersal characteristics of the taxa.
The subsequent accretion of the Indian plate into Eurasia during the Early Tertiary [ 13] was a potential catalyst for biotic exchange between the subcontinent and the Eurasian mainland.
The main driver of biodiversity loss is land-use change, followed by climate change, nitrogen deposition and biotic exchange (Sala et al. 2000).
Ecologists have long documented abiotic and biotic exchanges across ecosystem boundaries1.
The first is the opening of biotic exchanges between North and South America at various times in the Tertiary [ 1, 17].
The Makassar Strait is implicated to have caused a disjunction and a physical barrier to biotic exchanges or gene flow between the common ancestors of all extant mycalesines on the mainland Asian and Sulawesi at the time.
Indeed, the exchange of biotic invaders between agricultural and biomedical contexts demonstrates in striking terms the importance of evolutionary principles in applied management schemes.
