Sentence examples for ecological competition from inspiring English sources

In this moditional ecology, useful native species are outcompeted by nonnative ones due to ecological competition and/or human preference, while native species are preserved mostly for ceremonial and cultural purposes.

The next 20 years carried the automobile business deep into the second stage of ecological competition.

In Darwin's original theory, it is reproductive competition between individuals within a species that drives evolution, not ecological competition among different species.

I have examined the impact of ecological competition between musical genres on changes in the distribution of cultural consumption preferences in the American population, the use of racial profiling in state counter-terrorism practices, and the construction of race and national identity in American high school curricula.

Many authors investigated the ecological competition systems governed by differential equations of Lotka-Volterra type.

In the late 1980s, Wiens provided a concise definition of ecological competition.

Hence, the CS-1 inoculation effect may be associated with an ecological niche competition, because the relative abundance of Aspergillus spp. increased significantly in the CS-1 treatment group, whereas these fungi were undetected in the control group.

The remaining two mechanisms are consequences of environmental influences on the nature and strength of ecological interactions: competition (along edaphic gradients) and pressure from plant enemies (along climatic gradients).

On the other hand, if speciation involves a shift in host plant or some other ecological dimension, competition between sister-species would be reduced, and overlap could be favoured.

The introduction of P. ridibundus in Western Europe is likely to cause complex interactions and perturbations in the native L/ E system, like ecological interspecific competition, waste of reproductive potential for native taxa when they mate with the invasive species or population replacement through hybrid production and asymmetric backcrosses with parental species.

Here I consider the implications of the two formulations under two broad ecological scenarios: scramble competition for an equally divided resource (e.g. food) and contest competition for an unequally divided resource (e.g. nest sites).