Sentence examples for mountain species from inspiring English sources

Indigenous mountain species like the llama, on the other hand, exhibit an adaptation that is heritable and has a genetic basis.

Populations of mountain species are commonly both small although fluctuating and isolated and often have evolved over a relatively short period of time.

All live in burrows that they excavate, and most mountain species construct burrows beneath boulder fields, rocky slopes, and crevices in cliff faces.

A montane, or mountain, species, it is found only at elevations above a thousand feet in the Scottish Highlands and, farther south, in Britain's Lake District, only above fifteen hundred feet.

In the oceans, for instance, rising acidity threatens the survival of the polyp organisms that make coral reefs while increasing temperatures are sending some mountain species of plants and animals to higher altitudes.

Now the early effects of global warming and other climate changes have helped send the populations of many local mountain species into a steep downward spiral, from which many experts say they will never recover.

The two large high-mountain species (the golden and the black) also eat lichens and often travel or forage on the ground.

Tropical mountain birds, species without access to higher elevations, coastal forest birds, and restricted-range species are especially vulnerable.

Reid has just completed a comprehensive review of studies focusing on how the European brown impacts on native mountain hare species around the world.

Many mountain plant species in California shifted downhill, tracking regional changes in water balance.

Several mountain shrub species and aspen are capable of quick recovery after fire, due to long-distance seed dispersal or resprouting capacity (Baker 2009).