Sentence examples for ecological axis from inspiring English sources
The Baekdudaegan is a Korean main mountain range that passes through the Korean Peninsula, and Korean people consider it to be the main ecological axis of the Korean Peninsula.
Their typically aloof temperament and propensity for murder has even seen one conservation organisation deem them the "ecological axis of evil".
The observed color morph divergence occurs along a benthic-limnetic ecological axis associated with durophagy.
Therefore, a much more exhaustively sampled phylogeny combined with data on benthic/pelagic habitat use should facilitate a more robust phylogenetic examination of whether this ecological axis has influenced diversification within OPM cyprinids.
In order to discriminate between the predictions from niche differentiation and alternative hypotheses, more data, including species range overlap, divergence along the ecological axis as well as robust and resolved within genus phylogenies, are needed.
Temporal resource and habitat partitioning is a major axis of ecological diversification in reef fishes [ 1, 2].
Given the intralacustrine diversification of Midas cichlids in other crater lakes, we hypothesize that this trait of thin- or thick- lips may be a novel or alternative axis of ecological differentiation exploited by crater lake cichlids.
All disparity analyses were performed using both weighted and unweighted species scores on each axis of ecological variation to determine whether our results were robust to the unequal inertia among axes in niche ordinations.
The resultant eigenvalues describe how much of the ecological variance was attributed to each axis.
Additional file 2: Factorial map of the Hill and Smith principal component analysis of the household and ecological variables examined in the study: first (x-axis) and second (y-axis) (a ), considering the quantitative variables only (b ).
Cowling et al. (2008) go further with their axis of 'status of social-ecological system' depicting a continuum of states from vulnerable to resilient.
