Sentence examples for insular environments from inspiring English sources

Since these are flightless birds, it raises the intriguing possibility that their ancestors could fly and lost this ability to adapt to the new insular environments, once the southern continents became isolated by oceans.

We are concerned with the development and analysis of a predator prey system designed for heterogeneous insular environments; populations are native preys exposed to introduced and invading predators and competitor preys.

Processes of biological invasion, establishment and succession of tropical rain forest vegetation in the biogeographically remote insular environments of Hawaii are reviewed with reference to similarities in the ecology of post-mining landscapes.

This may be especially likely to occur in populations which are serially introduced to insular environments such as aquatic organisms in lakes.

Lakes are insular environments and uncolonized lakes are spread throughout the invaded range; therefore, many aquatic invasive populations are serially introduced into locations with low conspecific densities.

This tendency might appear paradoxical considering geographical isolation and a wealth of diverse insular environments potentially promoting the origin of novel chromosomal races and karyotypes.

It is quite an insular environment.

In mammals, one of the most dramatic responses to an insular environment is a change in body size.

And at the 2009 competition, her promotion to première danseuse was accompanied by murmurs that she had achieved this against the odds in the fiercely traditional and insular environment of the Paris Opera.

"When you're forced into an environment where you really have to interact with kids from different socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds," he said, "you're forced to realize that the world is a more complex place than your own personal, rather insular environment.

When she was promoted in 2009 to "premiere danseuse" (the top rank that a dancer can achieve through the annual competition that determines promotion), there were murmurs that she had achieved this against the odds in the fiercely traditional and insular environment of the Paris Opera.