Sentence examples for host of ecological from inspiring English sources

"[They] deliver a host of ecological services that are fundamental to the survival of humankind.

In particular, the pervasive use of the herbicide atrazine raises a host of ecological and political questions that are strikingly reminiscent of those confronted by Carson.

Birds are sensitive to a host of ecological threats (see [44]) including habitat degradation [51] and fragmentation [52], invasive species [53], [54], climate change [25], [55], [56], emergent disease [57], [58], and pollution [59], [60], so bird declines identified here are a warning of environmental problems.

We are presently unable to explain this pattern, but we predict that the solution to the paradox lies in understanding the potentially complex tradeoffs between dichromatism and a host of ecological or life-history traits [ 62].

At issue are a host of ecological and statistical questions, differing local land use practices, cultural factors, issues of verifiability, and even disagreement over definitions of basic terms such as "forest" Kyoto negotiators are gearing up for another round of discussions in Bonn in May 2001, and it is likely that the continuing debate over carbon sinks will dominate the agenda.

Because of these many advantages, targeted sequence capture approaches provide a powerful new tool for plant breeding, analyses of the scale and scope of genomic diversity, and a host of evolutionary and ecological genomic studies.

While we currently have no clear examples of herbivores or pathogens that have shifted onto introduced hosts through evolutionary processes (i.e., requiring genetic change), there are many cases of ecological host shifts, which then might be followed by adaptation of the herbivore or pathogen to utilize those hosts more effectively (reviewed in Parker and Gilbert 2004; e.g., Carroll et al. 2005).

This hypothesis proposes that the diversification of herbivorous insects through the adaptation to new host plants and the formation of ecological races (i.e., host races) represents new resources available for the parasitoids associated with those herbivorous races, which in turn promote the adaptation and diversification of parasitoid populations (Stireman et al. 2006; Forbes et al. 2009).

There, both initial cross-species transmission (stage II, Figure 1) and the likelihood of establishment in novel hosts (stages III and IV) were more closely associated with host phylogenetic relatedness than the extent of ecological overlap between species, perhaps because related hosts require less viral adaptation [ 16,17].

AMF host selectivity at the scale of ecological group (functional groups and ecosystems) affected the distribution of AMF.

We interpret the results in terms of distinguishing between colonisation of Acacia, the evolution of host conservatism, and the evolution of ecological specialisation amongst thrips lineages with a focus on galling behaviour.