Sentence examples for ecological escape from inspiring English sources

Because only the diploid stage is susceptible to lytic viruses, this life-cycling is thought to function as an important ecological escape strategy [ 17].

This pattern of pelvic spine loss and an overall reduction in spines has been demonstrated in several species of stickleback [ 16, 19, 34] and may be due to an ecological escape from predation pressure, an ion deficiency related to calcification and bone deposition and/or increased invertebrate predation pressure in these populations [ 16, 20, 35].

In the ecotype model, a new ecotype forms when the acquisition of an adaptive mutation allows a derived population to invade a new ecological niche and escape from the effects of drift and selection imposed by the ancestral population.

Thus, despite notes of the vast abundance of predatory spiders for insects [48], it appears that when D. gigliotosi switches from air-borne sound to tremulations under some ecological conditions it escapes a stronger predation pressure in the public mode of communication, than it suffers from predation in the private mode.

Blue Planet Society, a conservation organization, mused in a blog post about whether the escape spellled ecological disaster.

The F.D.A., in its analysis, basically agreed that the chance of escape or ecological disruption was small.

Costanero Sur Ecological Reserve: A nature escape opening to the Rio de la Plata.

In general, active dispersal is quite restricted in snails (e.g., [ 4- 6], preventing them to escape changing ecological conditions.

In this way bactsimDF simulates ecologically isolated sympatric populations and approximates the conditions required for divergence via the ecotype model, in which an adaptive mutation permits a subpopulation to occupy a new ecological niche and to escape the effects of selection and drift in the ancestral population (Cohan 2002).

Our results should therefore encourage investigations in these hybrid zones to test the extent to which hybrids can escape the ecological niche of their parents through the attraction of pollinators that are not involved in the pollination of their parents [ 19, 21, 25, 84].

Allelopathic properties may be a particular ecological hazard, should accidental escapes become successful bioinvasions [ 59].