Sentence examples for ecologically specialized from inspiring English sources

Many members of the order are ecologically specialized to tolerate salty or desertlike environments.

The assumption that T. alpinus is more ecologically specialized can be provided as background information or students can arrive at this understanding for themselves by comparing the descriptions of the study species available on Animal Diversity Web (animaldiversity.org).org

Another strain that is ecologically specialized on rodents and insectivores had the smallest effective population size.

Crosses used nine species of haplochromine cichlids from Lake Victoria, Lake Malawi and East African rivers (Table 1), representing different, ecologically specialized groups.

Conversely, ecologically specialized species with narrow geographic ranges became extinct without producing daughter species because of the general shutdown of vicariant speciation during this interval.

In this study, ecologically specialized frugivores (i.e. primary frugivores) were shown to be more important for maintaining the whole network structure.

Thus, a species may be legitimately viewed as unspecialized ecologically, but specialized evolutionarily, if it is more specialized than its ancestors.

On the other hand, those species that are ecologically more specialized turned out to be very generalistic according to the network concept, as they interacted on many fruit species within their networks.

" Urbanus belli" is viewed as well-categorized taxonomically and ecologically as a single species that has become specialized to feed on the leaves of tropical herbaceous or shrubby Asteraceae, i.e., composites [ 11] (http://janzen.sas.upenn.edu).upenn.edu

Noxious high temperatures appear to be a potentially ecologically relevant noxious stimulus for crayfish that can be detected by sensory neurons, which may be specialized nociceptors.

In the course of the radiation of the Tropheini from a generalist riverine ancestor into >20 endemic, ecologically diverse species in Lake Tanganyika (Salzburger et al. 2005; Koblmüller et al. 2010), Tropheus specialized on browsing filamentous algae covering the hard substrate in the shallow rocky littoral (Yamaoka 1997).