Sentence examples for ecological time from inspiring English sources

Elephants lived throughout Europe, Asia, Africa and America until very recently in ecological time (30,000 years ago in Europe, 14,000 years ago in the Americas).

The distribution patterns of marine organisms are influenced by physical and biological processes in both ecological time (tens of years) and geologic time (hundreds to millions of years).

With an estimated 2,380 metric tons of fuel on board, the wrecked Costa Concordia cruise ship is "an ecological time bomb," the mayor of the Tuscan island of Giglio said.

It was a British headquarters map from this era that inspired Dr. Sanderson's 2009 book, "Mannahatta," a kind of ecological time machine that transports the reader back to the borough as it might have appeared in 1609.

Unfortunately the development of ecological time series considerably lags those for the physics and chemistry of the oceans.

Perhaps unlike most forest regions, along the southeast coast of Africa chronic disturbance has been a feature over recent evolutionary and ecological time.

Design: An ecological time-series analysis was performed for a period of 2 years (July 1998 June 2000).

Given the expectation of rapid climate change on ecological time-scales, no dispersal for ancient woodland indicators becomes a plausible assumption.

Since this time-period not only included two additional disturbance events, but also multiple generations for all protozoa and rotifer species (at least >20), we conclude that the results are robust and meaningful on ecological time-scales, and do not only reflect a highly specific set-up of microcosm experiments [61], [62].

An ecological time-series study.

First, we examined the study population as an ecological time-series design with countries repeatedly observed over time.