He deserves the ecological equivalent of the Victoria Cross, though, knowing him, he would probably turn it down".
Today, the couple are the ecological equivalent of rock stars, such is their standing in environmental circles that they both get top billing wherever they go to talk in the world.
In the southern hemisphere, the ecological equivalent of the polar bear is probably the leopard seal, and the leopard seal preys on penguins and seals from underneath.
Van Daele et al. [ 17] likened brown bear exploitation of T. traskiana amphipods as the ecological equivalent of myrmecophagy (termite and ant consumption), which is important for some brown and black bear populations (e.g., [ 67, 68]).
Recent practice in the UK has been to develop multifunctional ecologists to act as ecological equivalents of "family doctors".
The vertebrate and arthropod faunas include many rare and relict species, and, on the basis of descriptions and the illustrations of Winnicki & Zemanek (2003), some appear to be ecological equivalents of those of the Southern Appalachian balds.
Bears are often considered ecological equivalents of large primates, but the latter often respond with fear, avoidance, and alarm calls to snakes, both venomous and non-venomous, there is sparse information on how bears respond to snakes.
Although this study does not refute completely the irreversible accumulation of slightly deleterious mutations in nonrecombining mitochondrial genes, we argue that the rate of the Muller ratchet in modern mammalian mitochondrial genes is at least slower than that in the ecological equivalents of mitochondria, obligate intracellular endosymbionts.
"That one day can have the equivalent of an ecological impact of a whole lifetime of a low-income individual when we're spending $20,000 or $30,000 or even $50,000 on an average American wedding," Assadourian said.
It is the marine equivalent of a young tree shooting skyward to fulfil its ecological role in a forest.
