Sentence examples for ecological flexibility from inspiring English sources
House crows have the reputation for being invasive species and, once established, are probably impossible to eradicate due to their behavioural and ecological flexibility combined with their legendary intelligence, which according to the research, appears to rival or exceed that of humans.
The limited ecological flexibility of pygmy panda may have contributed to its demise during climatic fluctuations in the Pleistocene.
In the latter case, biological factors such as dispersal abilities, population size, body size, ecological flexibility, and so on will play a large role in determining which species survive and which do not.
Mammals and birds with high ecological flexibility (indicated by the number of different types of food they consume or the number of different types of habitat they use) also tend to be more invasive than other species [69, 81, 82].
This suggests that P. acnes, although characterized by a highly conserved core genome, has the potential for ecological flexibility as indicated by the striking loss of genes involved in carbohydrate metabolism in division I-1 strains relative to the division I-2 and division II strains.
The inverse of specialization is a measure of the species' ecological flexibility or "tolerance" [ 46, 59].
We do not know enough about the ecological and behavioural flexibility of orangutans to predict how the species would react to significant density suppression, but we recommend that researchers keep this idea in mind when they study orangutans: How would the species behave if natural densities were 10 animals/km2?
Their ecological and behavioral flexibility allows them to thrive in human-altered environments.
Overall, these results highlight the phenomenal ecological and evolutionary flexibility of this mosquito, as well as the extraordinary complexity of the population structure and dynamics of this biological model – a lesson not only for students of speciation, but also for vector control.
Riparian management has a strong human dimension in that it must build and maintain ecological resilience and social flexibility through participatory approaches.
GAMS are particularly suitable for the interpretation of ecological data given their flexibility and capacity for non-linear responses that potentially mirrors how animals respond to fluctuations in their environment.
