Sentence examples for ecological explanation from inspiring English sources

But perhaps those who seek an ecological explanation of this sort are, as it were, barking up the wrong tree.

The ecological explanation is that more and more the strong partner become a weak partner, thus we have extinction of the strong.

The new findings provide an ecological explanation for the Out-of-Africa hypothesis that all modern humans are descended from a small number of ancestors who survived a population bottleneck in Africa between 150,000 and 70,000 years ago and gave rise to offspring who migrated to Asia and Europe.

Shifts in diversity can be a sensitive indicator of system change, especially if knowledge of the life history enables a mechanistic (e.g., oceanographic, physiological, ecological) explanation.

The ecological explanation for the prevalence of host specialists comes from an optimal foraging model developed to describe the consequences of predator diet compositions.

A behavior variant was considered to be a tradition when it occurred at a habitual or customary level in at least one site while being absent in at least one other site without an ecological explanation [3], [32].

Of course, it is impossible to completely reject genetic and ecological explanations as possible influences on the acquisition of behavioral traits, especially for ecologically functional behavior, and it is likely that both factors play at least a minor role in explaining the patterning of variation in most if not all of the behavior patterns termed "traditions".

The fact that related species have similar social structures, presumably because the genes for social behavior are inherited from a common ancestor, "spells trouble" for ecological explanations, Joan B. Silk, a primate expert at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote in a commentary in Nature.

Interpretation of paleoecological data primarily concerns paleoecological reconstructions and ecological explanations for observed changes.

These results suggest that traditional ecological explanations do not adequately explain the relationship between seed and plant adult size, and that there will be other, complementary explanations.

Unlike investigations of predator foraging strategies that focus on the ecological explanations for specialization, investigations of parasite foraging strategies have focused on evolutionary explanations [e.g. 3], [4] often ignoring ecological explanations entirely [but see 5], [6].