Sentence examples for ecological times from inspiring English sources

"Carson has taken on the status of a prophet, creator of a new testament for our ecological times".

However, post-disturbance levels of local diversity remain much lower that pre-disturbance ones, at least within ecological times.

Reef corals that brood their larvae internally and release mature larvae are generally believed to show little exchange of larvae over ecological times scales [11].

Reef corals that brood their larvae internally and release mature larvae are believed to show little exchange of larvae over ecological times scales and are therefore expected to recover extremely slowly from large-scale perturbations.

However, the ability to associate with novel symbionts would most likely have to evolve over time scales longer than the ecological times scales over which global warming is acting.

The wide spatial distribution of polyploids, coupled with their occurrence at different levels in the phylogenetic tree (Figs  2 and 4) suggests that polyploids have arisen on multiple independent occasions, including contemporary ecological times to the present.

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.

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