Sentence examples for ephemeral environment from inspiring English sources

However, this ephemeral environment calls for a delicately timed duet between the seals and their maternity ward, starting in late January when the ocean surface begins to freeze.

The smallest metamorph collected from a permanent environment was 62 mm SVL, 17 mm larger than the smallest metamorph found in an ephemeral environment (45 mm).

But other creatures, like polar bears, live in more ephemeral environments.

Instead of sculpture, he created immense, collaborative, ephemeral environments from throwaway stuff: newspapers, candles, flowers, onions, eggs, sand.

The "r-selected" end of the continuum consists of unpredictable, often ephemeral, environments.

Containers now make it easy, quick and relatively affordable to spin up these ephemeral environments that allow developers to test their code.

Thus, species found in isolated and ephemeral environments, where few founder genotypes are present, may utilize asexual reproduction as the primary mode of dispersion [17] [18], and sexual reproduction occurring within the genet may provide enhanced fitness through recombination events [12] [13], [17], [19].

Nonetheless, there are fitness costs associated with the rapid metamorphosis necessary for development in ephemeral environments.

Larvae in ephemeral environments do not appear to accelerate larval growth rate, and this species may thus be poorly equipped to thrive in newly ephemeral, rapidly drying environments.

Indeed nearly half of metamorphs collected from ephemeral environments were smaller than the smallest metamorph collected from any permanent environment.

Distinguishing between (a) benign versus stressful conditions, (b) inhabiting lasting versus ephemeral environments, and (c) morphologically symmetric versus budding mechanisms of cell division resolves many of the discrepancies in the literature.