Sentence examples for ecological edge from inspiring English sources

Groups that show an increase in variability, for example, might have been evolving into more species, giving them an ecological edge.

(He has lived for some years now in Hawaii, where his interest in the preservation of rain forests has prompted a number of lovely, intense poems with a strong ecological edge).

They say that "dinosaur groups that showed an increase in variability might have been evolving into more species, giving them an ecological edge, while decreasing variability might be a sign of extinction in the long term".

The current upslope migration of tropical species due to climate change will encounter an ecological edge at the treeline which will challenge their very survival.

At higher elevation, "The treeline should be one of the first and most obvious shifts in ecological edges".

Peck was over 40 before he suddenly found fame, and a certain amount of fortune, as the distraught police officer, Craven, looking for the answer to his daughter's death in the seminal mid-1980s BBC ecological thriller Edge Of Darkness.

But it also means that blue whales live on a ecological knife's edge, at the mercy of oceans — increasingly warm, increasingly polluted — that must continue to stay unusually rich.

The main objectives of this study were to: (1) quantify the rates and extent of forest fragmentation from deforestation and logging within the Brazilian Amazon, and (2) contextualize the spatio-temporal dynamics of this forest fragmentation through a literature review of potential ecological repercussions of edge creation.

A central issue in landscape fragmentation is the ecological effect of habitat edges, but edge characteristics and associated metrics have not been widely used in landscape fragmentation studies.

The 31 reference species were classified in three groups sharing similar life history traits and ecological attributes: "forest-edge", "grassland" and "weed" species.

Once a crumbling asphalt strip inclined to flood, today it is "the greenest street in America": a $15m showcase for cutting-edge ecological technologies such as photocatalytic cement to reduce smog and landscaped shallow troughs known as bioswales, which act as environmentally-friendly drainage, filtering and absorb polluted water.