Sentence examples for engines of diversification from inspiring English sources

This means that islands are engines of diversification in their own right and far more important to global patterns of diversity than we once thought.

Only a few areas have functioned as major engines of diversification.

The engine of diversification has been IFIL, a holding company that is 54percentt controlled by the Agnellis.

The majority of the Bursera lineages originated in the southwest region, which our results suggest has functioned as a major engine of diversification of the genus.

The presence of genetic structure in natural populations, and its role as an engine of diversification, is an essential element of modern evolutionary theory.

Colonization of novel host plants is an evolutionary process that is capable of generating new variation in host use, and could thus conceivably be the "missing fuel" in the engine of diversification.

While this region of Africa appears to be an engine of diversification in chimpanzees, the proximate mechanisms that make this region so important for this species remain unclear [ 8- 10].

The results revealed that hybridization acted as a powerful engine for diversification of AP as it caused heterotic expression of the studied traits, simultaneously.

Some areas have had a higher tendency to function as engines or sources of diversification whiles other tend to maintain species without generating them [5].

The tourism sector is among those poised to be the focus of these governments and is among the sectors expected to form the engines of economic growth and diversification in countries such as the UAE (Abu Dhabi Vision 2030), Qatar, Kuwait and Oman (Gössling et al. 2012).

Our findings are therefore consistent with the hypothesis that maturation, possibly via the cognitive demands of mating behaviour, places high demands on cognitive ability and can be an important engine of brain morphology diversification both at the intra- and interspecific level.