Sentence examples for evolved to occupy a from inspiring English sources
We traditionally think of life on Earth as being made up of complex and tightly-knit ecosystems like rainforests or coral reefs that are pristine, perfected and stable biological machines, in which every species has evolved to occupy a unique niche.
Although it is the sister species of the brown bear, it has evolved to occupy a narrower ecological niche, with many body characteristics adapted for cold temperatures, for moving across snow, ice, and open water, and for hunting the seals which make up most of its diet.
A role in photo-entrainment could also explain the retention of the functional gene in the African bathergid mole-rats as well as the Middle East blind mole-rat and the Hottentot golden mole, both of which possess subcutaneous eyes, and have independently evolved to occupy a subterranean niche.
It seems that the kakapo – like many of New Zealand's bird species – has evolved to occupy an ecological niche normally filled by various species of mammal (the only non-marine mammals native to New Zealand are three species of small bats).
Thus multiple morphotypes may coexist within spatial niches in single populations [2], [7], [8], [9], and different morphotypes may evolve to occupy a given spatial niche in different populations [10], [11].
Lactobacillus casei is considered a versatile species that has evolved to occupy diverse habitats for hundreds of millions of years.
In each region different plant and animal species evolved to occupy the new seasonally dry habitats.
Microorganisms have evolved to occupy almost every conceivable ecological niche and energy-generating mechanism.
Pools and riffles are fundamental mesohabitat units where many lotic biota have evolved to occupy preferentially, and support diverse biological communities.
Many animals and plants have evolved to occupy specific geographical niches, such as islands or mountain lakes.
An ecosystem based on distantly related plants might be more productive than one based on closely related plants, they reasoned, since the distant relatives are more likely to have evolved to occupy distinct niches.
