Sentence examples for communities of animals from inspiring English sources

In addition, the tropical rain forests in many parts of the region, with their great diversity of vegetation, have made possible the development of complex communities of animals that fill specialized ecological niches.

Instead, Hedin said, he and his colleagues have found for the first time that root diameter and reliance on fungi — or the lack thereof — are the traits that most consistently characterize the plant community across entire biomes, which are large distinct communities of animals and plants such as a desert, temperate forest or savanna.

Charles Peterson, of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has found that mathematical models of the communities of animals and plants in oyster reefs can help to show which animal species may successfully be re-established in a damaged reef.The most effective attempts at restoration, though, have been those in wetlands.

They found that the dead whales are home to bizarre communities of animals.

The discovery is one of the first to suggest how extensive the ecological effects of global warming are apt to be with entire communities of animals and plants subject to change as the loss of a keystone species is felt throughout a food web.

She varies from tiny sketches to large scale murals, each of which draws the eye into her communities of animals, objects, and people with a playful, cartoonish style.

At the moment, the environment represented by the rocks, the diversity of amphibians, and the lack of synapsids make the Pedra de Fogo community seem similar to the community of animals known from the Permian of Niger, which was at roughly the same latitude but somewhat to the east at the time.

In 1987, while surveying a region of sea floor in the submersible Alvin, Craig Smith of the University of Hawaii, Manoa, stumbled on an entire community of animals thriving on and near a submerged whale skeleton.

These smaller animals support communities of larger animals, including 70 species of land birds that breed within the Everglades, and 120 water birds, of which 43 breed in the area.

Officials in the tight-knit community of animal control agencies began hearing similar stories.

So seek out and support your own community of animal-loving groups, shelters, organizations, and leaders.