Sentence examples for ecological opportunities from inspiring English sources
Several in-depth examples of abiotic and biotic disturbances, including the ecological opportunities they create, are provided below.
This combination has permitted the primates throughout their evolutionary history to exploit the wide variety of novel ecological opportunities that have come their way.
In contrast to a slightly diminished economic performance, the suitable areas of the "ecological benefits" scenario came with a considerable increase of ecological opportunities (Fig. 7e, f).
Cross-clade comparisons of adaptive radiations are much needed to determine whether similar ecological opportunities can lead to the same outcomes.
That spate of evolution among angiosperms, which occurred millions of years before the mass extinction that claimed the dinosaurs, opened new ecological opportunities that multituberculates then diversified to exploit, the researchers suggest.
One interesting possibility is that evolutionary escape from parasite attack could open up a range of previously inaccessible ecological opportunities, thereby allowing diversification of the host so-called "escape and radiate coevolution" (Ehrlich and Raven 1964).
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.
The demise of the dinosaurs created the ecological opportunity for the diminutive prehistoric mammals of the time to become the largest creatures on Earth today, scientists have demonstrated conclusively for the first time.
Escape from herbivory opens an ecological opportunity that allows the newly defended plants to undergo rapid and repeated speciation events.
Second, when the evolution of a novel defense or counter-defense provides ecological opportunity for new species to form, the tempo of speciation is quick.
The insects can then feed on the plants, opening an ecological opportunity for them to diversify onto the new lineage of plants.
