Sentence examples for dominated communities from inspiring English sources

Seep endemics dominated the communities of younger aggregations, but non-endemic species dominated communities of older aggregations.

Our results demonstrated that light, considered here as a direct physical stressor, slightly modulated the acute toxicity of isoproturon on these diatom dominated communities.

The graminoid dominated communities were distinguished by higher levels of extractable ammonium, soil organic matter (SOM) as represented by loss on ignition (LOI).

We determined whether graminoid and lichen dominated communities differ significantly in edaphic factors from the surrounding forest herbaceous layer vegetation matrix (ericaceous dominated community).

and lichen moss dominated communities (Cladonia spp. and Polytrichum juniperinum Hedw)., in close proximity to one another, from three different forest locations were examined.

The lichen moss dominated communities are distinguished by more bare ground, low bulk density, low nitrogen availability and a preponderance of microbial biomass in the upper 5 cm of the soil profile.

On high temperature vents of the Juan de Fuca Ridge, Alvinellid-dominated communities colonizing first mineral surfaces are followed by a succession of communities with different species composition.

Herb-dominated communities, possibly with isolated populations of Larix, characterized northern WB with only a slight shift from relatively warm to cool summers during the mid-interstade.

Whyte, M. A., Romano, M. & Elvidge, D. J. Reconstruction of Middle Jurassic Dinosaur-Dominated Communities from the Vertebrate Ichnofauna of the Cleveland Basin of Yorkshire, UK Ichnos 14, 117 129 (2004).

Such decreases in live coral cover have increased the availability of hard substrata, which consequently may result in a phase shift from coral-dominated communities, to hard-bottom systems dominated by algae (e.g., [153] [155]).

To test this hypothesis we used long-term (1995 2004) vegetation data from permanent plots to quantify population, compositional, and community cover stability [2], [39] in pre-invasion Bouteloua-dominated plant communities and post-invasion Larrea-dominated communities at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge (SNWR), central New Mexico, USA.