Sentence examples for niche diversity from inspiring English sources

At fine taxonomical scales, ecological specialisation, i.e. organisms preferentially exploiting a subset of available habitats, is thought to be a driver promoting niche diversity.

High niche diversity in the Neotropics is thus thought to drive specialization and support high species diversity.

Since niche diversity widens the sets of resources for colonizing species, we predicted that the Amerindian H. pylori strains would be the least diverse.

Here, we address whether resident niche diversity has a net positive or negative effect on the extent of diversification in an invading lineage in a highly controlled microbial system.

Conserved genes among these species can reveal phylogenetic relationships, but also show metabolic strategies useful in understanding the niche diversity in which these organisms usually grow.

The extensive TBDT repertoire in Xcc has been linked to niche diversity and carbohydrate scavenging in the oligotrophic conditions encountered during epiphytic survival [ 48].

That within-spatial niche (genotypic) diversity did not affect invader diversification has important consequences for total community diversity after an invader has diversified, particularly with respect to the contribution of WS to total diversity.

In the "vertical" niche, a diversity of companies market products and services to that same group.

Furthermore, plots of the PCA scores revealed high levels of climatic niche space diversity within several genera, especially those containing numerous species (Figs. 1 5).

However, there was no significant additional effect of within-spatial-niche morphotypic diversity of the resident community on invading lineage diversification (F 1,66 = 0.24, P>0.1).

Whether this phenomenon is a result of the Pseudomonadaceae actively defining a niche with less diversity or is due to their exploitation of an existing low diversity niche is unknown.