Sentence examples for ecological refugia from inspiring English sources

This research characterizes unburned areas within fire perimeters, which provide ecological refugia and seed source for post-fire regeneration.

Many contain endemic, rare or relictual species of plants, fishes and invertebrates and are recognized as globally important biodiversity hotspots and evolutionary and ecological refugia.

Atlantic forest remnants within the caatinga domain (created between 25  and 17 000 years ago), where the CE populations originated probably constitute ecological refugia produced by successive amplification and retraction of the most suitable habitats for this species.

An increase in such diversity increases the kinds of ecological refugia in which livestock influenza can avoid extirpation.

While those short wet or dry reaches may have significant ecological meaning as refugia or barriers, this approach acknowledged the potential for cumulative location errors inherent in the GPS units (e.g., due to atmospheric distortions of the satellite signal), and simplified data collection in areas with short gaps or small pools.

It is probable that the Wolbachia infection in M. arion populations preceded both the expansion from glacial refugia and ecological specialisation.

Additional support is provided by phylogeographic studies in two plant species, Eucalyptus regnans [ 51] and Nothofagus cunninghamii [ 52], as well as vegetation modelling based on palynological and ecological data, which predicted refugia in this region for rainforest, grassy woodland and eucalypt species during the LGM [ 50].

Dating analyses placed main diversification events in the Pleistocene, and multiple Pleistocene refugia, identified using ecological niche modeling (ENM), are compatible with allopatric differentiation of lineages.

Here, we explore a novel method for locating and describing Pleistocene refugia [19] [20], the use of ecological niche models (ENMs) in conjunction with paleoclimatic reconstructions.

Refugia can be identified through ecological criteria.

Recent molecular and ecological evidence strongly supports the existence of two refugia in China (Gong et al., 2008a, 2008b; Tang et al., 2012).