Sentence examples for ecological distinctions from inspiring English sources
One hypothesized explanation for the persistence of morphological and ecological distinctions among species despite hybridization is divergent natural selection at ecologically relevant genes, such as those involved in biotic or abiotic stress responses [ 24].
Safina's book thrums with fascination where he explicates, one by one, these evolutionary and ecological distinctions.
Cryptic hybridization can obscure both invasion history and, potentially, ecological distinctions that may prove relevant to the assessment of risks associated with biological invasions [23].
The phylogenetic trees also reveal a molecular signal of the ecological distinction between marine and freshwater fish.
Globigerinoides ruber showed a clear ecological distinction between its Type Ia/Ib(1) and Type II lineages, supporting past opinions that Types I and II represent independent species [ 5, 9, 31].
In the Arabian Sea we indeed see a clear ecological distinction between the G. ruber Type Ia and Type II lineages; Type 1a occupying only the oligotrophic southern water mass, and Type IIa almost exclusively occupying the more eutrophic north.
In West Africa, the main ecological distinction between the presumed ancestral S form and the derived M form of A. gambiae (Costantini et al. 2009) is the larval habitat; M breeds in irrigated rice fields and thus may have originated in association with rice domestication in Africa.
Statistically significant distinctions in ecological condition among validation samples were predicted by the resultant spatial model.
I found this image redolent of an ascendant theme in ecological thought: that the distinction between what is nature and what is not has blurred beyond recognition.
To conceptually separate the stakeholders and their knowledge systems, we use a three-fold distinction of ecological knowledge, distinguishing between local, policy, and scientific.
The elements of metacommunity structure (EMS) framework gives rise to important ecological insights through the distinction of metacommunities into several different idealised structures.
