Sentence examples for ecological radiation from inspiring English sources

To obtain the key patches in GI network, we conceptualized patches and merged them within the same ecological radiation scope.17 patches and 9 corridors were selected as the key components of GI network in Xuzhou urban area.

The ecological radiation of mammals to inhabit a variety of light environments is largely attributed to adaptive changes in their visual systems.

3 The wide ecological radiation and a corresponding range of behavioral and neural adaptations within the order Chiroptera offers excellent possibilities to test empirically evolutionary adaptations predicted by findings from other species.

Copepods are highly diverse and abundant, resulting in extensive ecological radiation in marine ecosystems.

Thus, taxa with mixed breeding systems coupled with high dispersal should possess a weak capacity for rapid ecological radiation compared to strict asexuals and sexuals [ 11, 23- 26].

This ecological radiation coincides with a series of biological and physical changes in the structure of shallow marine habitats during the early geological development of the Isthmus of Panama.

In particular the visual system is important for understanding ecological radiations in nocturnal and diurnal lineages, because most reef fish are highly visual foragers [ 10, 11].

Thus the fossil record and molecular data broadly agree on the timing of these ecological radiations, which are temporally correlated with changes in habitat structure and productivity.

Further development of nuclear genomic datasets and further incorporation of the fossil record are required to address central questions on rates of genomic versus morphological evolution, gene and species trees, molecular and fossil ages, molecular and morphological differences, and the recognition and timing of ecological radiations and dispersal events in Ruminantia.

While the study by Johnson et al. is by far the most rigorous phylogenetic treatment of the Ischnocera to date, denser taxon sampling is required to rigorously test whether replicate ecological radiations or vicariant diversification across hosts is more prevalent among avian lice.

It remains to be studied whether such non-ecological radiations can be used to estimate the proportion of non-ecological speciation in related groups in which species differ in their host use, because some proportion of host switches also in these groups undoubtedly have occurred well before or after speciation events (cf. [ 33]).