Sentence examples for robust niche from inspiring English sources

The practice dismays many local residents but has created a surprisingly robust niche in the travel business.

The story of how drones became a robust niche in domestic law enforcement - and part of the commercial world as well - is rooted in Washington DC.

However, recently a variety of philosophers and scientists have argued (Odling-Smee et al., 2003; Sterelny, 2003, 2007, 2012) that natural selection can occur on traits even if traits vary most with the environment rather than genes, so long as environments can themselves be transmitted down lineages; Sterelny's suggestion is that this might be achieved by robust niche construction.

It remains unclear exactly how many samples are necessary to produce a robust ecological niche model, although some authors have suggested more than 10 [ 23, 27] or even over 100 [see [ 51]].

This sum is a robust measure of niche breadth, defined as the diversity of abiotic conditions under which a species can maintain a population [72], [74].

Although a comparison of only two regions (mainland, island) is not a robust test of the niche variation hypothesis, we found additional and direct support for trophic niche expansion in wolves, with island wolves – that showed the larger niche width – also exhibiting more intra-group diet variability than wolves from the mainland (Fig. 5).

As a more robust measure of total niche area, Jackson et al.

The approach developed here to classify arable weeds according to the breadth of their ecological niche is robust and applicable to a wide range of organisms.

This model knowingly ignores the complex biotic interactions and edaphic conditions, but provides a robust assessment of the climate niche, which is valuable for agronomists, crop developers, and regulators seeking to choose agro-ecoregionally appropriate crops while minimizing the risk of invasive species.

AS AN unholy triad of recession, global warming and bulging populations is playing havoc with farm-commodity prices worldwide, one small niche has proved surprisingly robust: Christmas trees.

But Mr Perry, who has lots of money and a robust campaign machine, will not surrender that niche willingly to Mr Cain.