Sentence examples for distinctive ecosystems from inspiring English sources

The Bronx Zoo has opened a spectacular new series of dioramas devoted to the distinctive ecosystems of Madagascar.

The Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts of northern and north-central Mexico are characterized by sparse desert scrub vegetation, although at higher elevations distinctive ecosystems including short grasses, scattered shrubs, and a variety of cacti and other succulents have evolved.

Conservation justifiably prioritizes tropical moist forests (see tropical forest) because they hold such a large fraction of the global total of species, but a comprehensive strategy must also include the conservation of other distinctive ecosystems.

To provide a more representative selection of Earth's distinctive ecosystems, scientists working in the United States at the World Wildlife Fund WWFF) have compiled what they call the world's "ecoregions," which are drawn from the planet's terrestrial, freshwater, and marine major habitat types.

Wetlands are distinctive ecosystems.

The Interim Biogeographic Regionalization for Australia (IBRA) [21] was used to subdivide the Australian continent into 80 distinctive ecosystems.

We love our Macs more than our PCs because Apple was more interested in harnessing and inflecting the affective resonances of its technology and in restricting a smaller coterie of elites to guard and guide these affects so as to create a distinctive ecosystem.

This requires scientific knowledge on the creation of new habitats with distinctive ecosystem services in the urban and peri-urban landscape.

London has its own, distinctive political ecosystem, but Khan's capture of City Hall holds valuable lessons both for those who are defiantly upbeat about their party's national fortunes and those who are in despair, wherever in Britain they may live.

Ecosystems consisted of distinctive plants, e.g., crop plants were limited to anthropogenic systems and most trees only occurred in forests; this is leading to high specificity of AMF for certain ecosystems and distinct ecosystemic composition because of high host specificity of AMF.

Regionally-distinctive open oak forest ecosystems have been replaced either by intensive agriculture and grazing fields or by denser forests throughout eastern North America and Europe.