Sentence examples for distributed taxa from inspiring English sources

However, little is known about how these events might have shaped the diversification patterns among the widely distributed taxa.

Of the 8 species present in the landscape, Amynthas alexandri and Metaphire anomala were the most widely distributed taxa, with the former absent only in RAL and the latter only in HDNF, while Bimastos parvus and Perionyx excavatus were confined to MDNF.

Analysis of the metagenomic data collected during this journey revealed two groups of organisms, one composed of taxa adapted to environmental conditions of 'feast or famine', and a second composed of relatively fewer but more abundantly and widely distributed taxa primarily composed of plankton.

Here we test the hypothesis that globally distributed taxa have different macroevolutionary responses to environmental change by comparing genus duration, per-interval geographic range size, and paleoenvironmental occupancy.

First, we are not comparing widespread taxa to narrowly distributed taxa; we are assessing whether or not two groups of taxa have different spatial and temporal distributions.

The efficiency of quadrat sampling is dependent on the size and distribution patterns of the target organisms and may not be as effective in assessing patterns of highly patchily distributed taxa such as echinoderms [70] [71].

These candidate cohesive barriers should be evaluated in the context ring-distributed taxa with lower dispersal tendencies or, more generally, with population biologies or histories that are broadly similar to Acacia or Ensatina.

Thus, even physiological and macroevolutionary studies that use relative mass values or distribute taxa into discrete mass 'categories' based on scaling equation estimates should take the maximum range of values or error inherent in these equations into account.

Figure  2b is attempting to distribute taxa along the left right axis in an objective way, thus eliminating device no. 5, but it is extremely unbalanced, thus using device no. 4. Every taxon's relative place was determined according to the number of described extant species within the taxon.

We sampled the broadly distributed isidiate taxa M. elegantula (100) and M. exasperatula (105) across their known distributions, representing common taxa reproducing vegetatively.

Taxonomic expertise in Australia is unevenly distributed across taxa, and declining.