Sentence examples for replacement species from inspiring English sources

This approach involves understanding which sites and species contribute to beta diversity, followed by the untangling of beta diversity into distinct processes, such as replacement (species replace each other along ecological gradients) and richness difference (different communities have a different number of species)32,33.

The result is that many research facilities will soon be looking for a replacement species, and the already-popular rhesus macaques could fit the bill.

These two species had long be exemplary northbank-southbank Amazonian replacement species but recent surveys in western Amazonia have shown them to cross their putative river boundaries and occur on the same-side of the river where hybridization may occur.

Table 1 Results from the Distance-based redundancy analysis (dbRDA) with a forward selection, showing the significant environmental variables (p < 0.05) affecting the Jaccard dissimilarity, species replacement, species richness/abundance difference using (a) presence –absence and (b) species abundance data of 100 m length samples (n = 160).

However, there may not be similar replacement species available under future conditions, which are equally suitable for the task both practically and ecologically.

Whatever was causing the disappearance of species and however the replacement species appeared, it all had to happen right there in the region where he was collecting their bones and shells.

Whilst there is no absolute geographical replacement of species, four species either dominate or are codominant in particular regions.

Replacement of species (or their locally-adapted genotypes) with new species (or new genotypes) is a response to climate change.

We estimated temporal beta diversity in plant communities and partitioned it into its two dissimilarity resultant components, accounting for replacement of species (i.e. turnover) and for the nested gain or loss of species (i.e. nestedness).

In this view, the loss of Hawaii's native birds and plants and their replacement by species that are more resistant to disease and predators, is just another case of the fittest surviving.

These results demonstrate that while the high taxonomic β-diversity is mostly driven by the replacement of species among the pH zones, the high functional β-diversity is driven mainly by a loss of functional richness at low pH.