Sentence examples for ecological links from inspiring English sources

"We can test what planting size best favors plant growth and reproduction, and best rebuilds ecological links, such as attracting pollinators," Professor Handel said.

"These sites have evolved since their early focus on urban greening to now include improvements to pedestrian and vehicular safety, creating ecological links and, most recently, storm water capture," Philip Abramson, a parks department spokesman, said in an e-mail.

Otherwise, she said, Greenstreets requests will now be rated and prioritized based on their location within priority sewer-drainage systems, storm-water-capture potential, alignment with other city improvements, maintenance difficulty and ecological links to other nearby green spaces.

Here, we present the results of acute copper toxicity tests on the free-living shallow-water marine nematode Halomonhystera disjuncta, which has close phylogenetic and ecological links to the bathyal species Halomonhystera hermesi.

In the most detailed study, Einoder and Richardson [20] took foot measurements (including claws) from a range of extant Australasian raptors, looking for ecological links with prey choice, size, "hunting-killing technique", and phylogeny.

Interspecies transmission is likely to occur because of strong ecological links between raccoon dogs and red foxes.

MDS analysis of the FA profiles of faecal material from P. erythodactyla showed that this species provides an important ecological link in estuarine systems by providing a substrate for the colonisation of bacteria.

In such a context, there may be a missing ecological link between aquatic birds and the environment, which fits into the fecal-water-oral route of transmission.

It could be considered as an ecological link along the food chain from livestock to humans.

One way of preventing undesired explosive growth is engineering a strong ecological link between organisms, whose interdependence turns into a limitation for their spread.

An ecological link between fructose supply and obesity prevalence has been proposed (Bray et al., 2004); however, data on obesity are too scant to make a formal (Gross et al., 2004) or statistically significant link (Livesey, 2009), especially given that other confounders have also changed (Anderson, 2007).