Sentence examples for ecological groupings from inspiring English sources

This tremendous diversity of life is organized into natural ecological groupings.

In agreement with previous findings N isotope values seem to be related to ecological groupings and ontogenic changes.

We used a large dataset of multiple population samples replicated over time for 20 parasite species and carried out assessments both intraspecifically and interspecifically, across taxonomic and ecological groupings.

Williams identifies 15 subgenera that are seen to be monophyletic, fewer in number, diagnosable from morphology, and at least roughly correspond to behavioural and ecological groupings: Bumblebees are varied in appearance, but are generally plump and densely furry.

There are distinct ecological groupings that can be made according to dietary (Mowat and Heard 2006), environmental, and life-history characteristics (Ferguson and McLoughlin 2008).

These results suggest that rate heterogeneity among viral subtypes and ecological groupings should be taken into account when estimating evolutionary rates and divergence times.

The team then assessed the proportion of extinction-prone species among major ecological and geographical groupings.

The uneven spread of extinction-prone species across ecological and geographical groupings will likely mean "even greater ecological consequences and ecosystem dysfunction than global figures suggest," says Stuart Butchart, coordinator of BirdLife International's Global Species Programme in Cambridge, United Kingdom.

In this way, we investigate to what degree the economic categories "weed" and "noxious" correspond to ecological and taxonomic groupings.

Most of the biodiversity work on ciliates has focused on tintinnids or loricate ciliates, while studies involving naked ciliates tend to use groupings based on ecological morphotypes and only rarely include detailed taxonomical work [e.g., [155],[166]–[168]].

Additional groupings also based on ecological knowledge of the species were further tested, namely: birds up to 5y old (noted as 1 5 in models), birds from 6 to 8y old, and individuals being >8y old.