Sentence examples for ecologically successful from inspiring English sources

Vanuatu is distinguished by having come top of a global index that measures how ecologically successful (low in impact) nations are at producing good lives for their people – so-called "happy life years".

In addition to the adaptations that make grasses ecologically successful, the grass spikelet has apparently been a competent means of protecting the flower, developing the fruit, and dispersing the seed.

These projects are a more costly, not typically ecologically successful, and commonly call for wetland relocation resulting in the extirpation of local populations.

Wetlands lobbyist Julie Sibbing of the National Wildlife Federation in Reston, Virginia, welcomes nationwide standards but worries that they aren't explicit enough and won't lead to restoration projects that are ecologically successful.

These phyla are ecologically successful, with many thousands of living and extinct species [ 64].

These are all ecologically successful and widespread inhabitants of marine waters and alkaline lakes, respectively.

Mutualistic symbioses also often represent major and ecologically highly successful transitions in evolution [ 2].

First, the latter is difficult to understand looking to nature, as O2-respiring bacterial osmotrophs are ecologically extremely successful.

Thanks to increased research in this field and improved genetic tools, meanwhile several hybrid taxa have been identified that are ecologically very successful and seem to have reached an evolutionarily old age [ 16– 16].

On the basis of our evidence of migration events, we propose that the trans-oceanic dispersal and colonization of ecologically highly successful clonal complexes (e.g., the A group) may also have played a substantial role.

Therefore, a few isolated non-pairs in Helix 3 do apparently not reduce fitness and viability of the respective organisms, since e.g. the three families listed above belong to the ecologically most successful green algae in marine and coastal environments [ 42, 76].