Certain beetles have special ecological relationships.
Note that these ecological relationships are between eaters and whole foods, not nutrients.
This project will address one of the main concerns regarding climate change: how is it affecting the ecological relationships between pollinating insects and flowering plants?
But its food chain doesn't end there, because the corn itself grows somewhere else, where it is implicated in a whole other set of ecological relationships.
The loss of dogwoods from lower elevation forests could have a damaging effect on soil acidification, nutrient availability and numerous ecological relationships, Dr. Jenkins wrote.
The division of the major regions into minor subdivisions helps to elucidate more recent events in Earth history as well as the dispersal capabilities, adaptive strategies, and ecological relationships of the biota.
The study, described yesterday in Entomology Today, shows how an invasive species can restructure ecological relationships.
In order to evaluate patterns in dam-regulated hydrology and associated ecological relationships, a broad framework is needed.
Experts laud the study, based on thousands of fossils of nibbled leaves, for its groundbreaking reconstruction of past ecological relationships.
Bacterial communities in soil play an important role in the maintenance of ecological relationships.
Such systems are considered multi-equilibrium, occurring in diverse combinations of social and ecological relationships (Berkes and Turner 2006).
