Our analyses reveal at least two coherent patterns of ecological change that are manifest in each of the four datasets, patterns which may have been overlooked by a single-variable, empirical orthogonal function approach.
In a program note, Fure says that she wishes to evoke "the mounting hum of ecological anxiety around us" — changes that are too slow and too vast to be immediately grasped.
Clownfishes experienced rapid and convergent morphological changes that were correlated with the different ecological niches offered by the host anemones.
Although the primary idea of the reversal gene drive is a recovery switch from the inserted genetic changes, it cannot be said that it is a recovery switch for the ecological changes that would be introduced to the ecosystem.
"Explosive" island adaptive radiations are accompanied by tremendous phenotypical and ecological changes that suggest many genes might be under fairly strong positive selection.
We must take the lead in stemming the tide of ecological destruction and global climate change that is killing our oceans, destroying our forests, and wrecking the natural systems that maintain life, as we know it, on our planet.
Thus, if the ecological niche of A. baumannii were more restricted than that of other species, its population size may have been contracted by ecological changes that reduced its habitat.
Evolution towards increased virulence can be accompanied by ecological changes that reflect specialization of pathogenic bacterial clones to their new lifestyle.
Economic value-at-risk can be seen as a product of two components: ecological (plausible ecological changes that might result from the introduction of a known invader) and economic (the economic costs that might be associated with the above ecological changes or resulting mitigation).
Following the shifts in selection exerted by the dramatic physiological, morphological and ecological changes that accompany metamorphosis, our prediction is that different genes and gene pathways will be under selection at different life stages, and those will appear as outlier loci (higher genetic differentiation relative to the background) when comparing glass eels vs. silver eels.
