Sentence examples for communities of organisms from inspiring English sources

The find represents the first direct evidence that whole communities of organisms can make long ocean voyages floating on organic rafts.

The components tracked can be inorganic or organic compounds, individual organisms, or populations or communities of organisms moving between locations in soils, within and among forest canopies, along elevation gradients or across landscapes.

Her specialty is communities of organisms that thrive in conditions that seem extreme from a human standpoint.

Because Laurentia remained nearly intact structurally, it is ideal for studying the relationships between Cambrian environments and communities of organisms around a low-latitude Cambrian continent.

In secondary succession, which follows a disturbance in an area with existing communities of organisms, biological remnants (such as buried seeds) survive, and the recovery process begins sooner.

But these researchers, working in relative obscurity, nonetheless have documented rich and surprisingly diverse communities of organisms in the deep sea.

Ecological integrity of managed forests includes the ability of an ecosystem to support a community of organisms with a similar species composition and functional organization as found in nearby natural systems.

Biologic integrity in the context of waterways is defined as the ability of a water body to support and maintain a balanced, integrated, adaptive community of organisms having a species composition, diversity, and functional organization comparable to that of a natural habitat of the region (Daniels et al. 2002; Karr 1991; Southerland et al. 2007, Sponseller et al. 2001).

Grassle's work ultimately revealed that a diverse community of organisms thrives along deep-sea hydrothermal vents, feasting on organic matter produced by sulfur-oxidizing bacteria instead of photosynthesis.

Since time immemorial, a very specific community of organisms — microbes, parasites, some viruses — has aggregated to form the human superorganism.

Crustacean Colonies Deep-ocean hydrothermal vent fields like those in the Juan de Fuca Ridge off the Pacific Northwest coast are hospitable places, the hot, mineral-rich waters giving rise to a diverse community of organisms, including crustaceans and worms.