Sentence examples for has evolved to occupy 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.

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).

Lactobacillus casei is considered a versatile species that has evolved to occupy diverse habitats for hundreds of millions of years.

Microorganisms have evolved to occupy almost every conceivable ecological niche and energy-generating mechanism.

Many animals and plants have evolved to occupy specific geographical niches, such as islands or mountain lakes.

Pools and riffles are fundamental mesohabitat units where many lotic biota have evolved to occupy preferentially, and support diverse biological communities.

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.

We combined the new rhodopsin sequences with published data and undertook phylogenetic reconstruction of rhodopsin gene sequences for 59 mammals, including groups that have evolved to occupy subterranean, aquatic and nocturnal niches (summarised in Figure 1).

Since the first fungal genome sequences became available, investigators have been employing comparative genomics to understand how fungi have evolved to occupy diverse ecological niches.

In particular, in order to investigate how organisms have evolved to occupy contrasting habitats, we compared four species of Stratiomyidae (Diptera) whose larvae develop in naturally varying (semi aquatic habitats, including highly aggressive conditions of hot volcanic springs [ 8].