Sentence examples for ecological position from inspiring English sources

There were no other tetrapods on the land and the amphibians were at the top of the food chain, occupying the ecological position currently held by the crocodile.

The statement was offered not as a rigid or dogmatic manifesto but rather as a set of fairly general principles that could help people articulate their own deep ecological positions.

Birds occupy a wide range of ecological positions.

As has been reported previously, there was no strong association between ecological context and position in the phylogenetic tree.

In A QUESTION OF PRIORITIES by Edward Higbee (Morrow, $6) we are confronted with something quite different, an attitude toward man and nature which is the extreme op posite of the ecological or conserva tionist position.

An article in Business Day on Friday about the hurdles delaying the construction of a trans-Siberian oil pipeline misstated the name of an environmental group whose executive director called the project a test case of whether Russia would consider ecological issues in positioning the terminal.

In the present review we summarize information on major bat-associated emerging infections and discuss specific characteristics of bats as carriers of pathogens (from evolutionary, ecological, and immunological positions).

Consistent with prevailing approaches to promoting health in Indigenous populations, a holistic social ecological paradigm clearly positioning the individual within their environmental context is essential to understand the factors that perpetuate smoking in AHWs [ 22, 42].

The particularity, strategic position and ecological threats of the "Gold-Cross" were analyzed in this paper.

Large terrestrial carnivores, e.g. wolves or bears, often play a key ecological role from their position at the apex of trophic systems.

Because of the interface position and ecological diversity of Myanmar, the genetic diversity of Myanmar rice varieties is expected to be high.