If climatic fluctuations caused broad scale changes in vegetation and habitat, leading to population divergence, then the phylogeographical patterns of giraffes should also be found in other species.
Elevated rates of sediment run-off, as a result of changes in land-use and climate, are a significant threat to marine coastal communities, with a potential to cause broad-scale, long-term alteration of habitats.
This is suggestive that an inversion caused historic broad scale changes in recombination rate.
On a broad scale, this can cause vicious declines in longer-term assets, and paralysis across the system if the selling turns into a panic.
After making the argument in speeches, articles, two books, and even an appearance before the Supreme Court, his cause has not been adopted on a broad scale.
They were embedded in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act and in the FISA Amendments Act signed by President George W. Bush in 2008, which recklessly allows eavesdropping on a broad scale, without any particular cause for suspicion, even without a target.
Brown had envisioned a small amount of violence causing a chain reaction that would lead to a broad scale slave uprising.
In this context, species that are locally abundant or widely distributed can be informative on how broad scale processes of habitat loss and fragmentation, as those caused by intensive human occupation, affect population genetic structure.
We quantified colour morph frequencies in eight populations of C. decresii and examined their relationship with geographic distance, genetic divergence, broad scale environmental gradients and microhabitat features, to elucidate the causes of geographic variation in polymorphism.
"Either broad scale or carefully targeted".
This proves its value on a broad scale," he said.
