Sentence examples for ecological if from inspiring English sources

These interactions can be either ecological, if justified, for example, by natural mechanisms of dispersal (plant species dynamics), or crop successions in anthropized landscapes, or statistical (geometrical).

Simply put, for example, a disease will be spread among species if they entertain ecological relations, if their geographical ranges overlap, and so on.

This would not only be odd, it should—if ecological theory is correct be unstable.

What I think we're seeing now is a combination of size and intensity — ecological momentum, if you will.

There are probably millions of them who would be willing to set aside pride, self-respect and ecological awareness if only they could catch something.

I asked Shafland the same question I had asked every biologist I'd interviewed: Would you turn back the ecological clock if you could?

These talks have gone on for years, but before Mexico's election this summer, there is a rare ecological opportunity, if only political forces seize it.

"Even a heavily logged area can serve a really vital ecological function if about half of the understory vegetation can be left intact".

But it also would allow more fire-restoration work like the thinning of trees and prescribed burning, which he said could have ecological benefits if planned carefully.

Many biologists argue that if Aedes aegypti, or, indeed, all mosquitoes, were to disappear, the world wouldn't miss them, and other insects would quickly fill their ecological niche — if they have one.

"It was built over such a long time that by the time they finished it [in 1986] they finally realized it would have been an ecological disaster if they had completely sealed off the sea," Bunge said.