Sentence examples for rocky environment from inspiring English sources

The role of Fe-phases and cation bridges in mineralization, elsewhere reported12, highlights the critical influence of mineral composition to preserve cells in their rocky environment.

The ecosystem-engineering process performed by the ascidian is enhanced by the diverse epibiotic sponge assemblage, thus further increasing habitat complexity in this space-limited, temperate, sublittoral, rocky environment.

So whether you look at it from the structural bull perspective moving into a cyclical bear or whether you look at it from a continuing the structural bear market extending for those bear market stocks from 2000, we are looking at three to four years of a very rocky environment.

This study also indicated that the location of the garden shown on the maps is in a dry and rocky environment which does not fit he description of the French.

Although the rocky environment near the falls, crisscrossed by pools of water and tiny rivulets, is inside the boundaries of the District of Columbia, this part of the Potomac Gorge feels like it's hundreds of miles away from the nation's capital.

Indeed, such prey items were found in fish from the rocky environment.

Because rocky environments are generally less fertile, steep-sided and less accessible than the surrounding landscape, they are typically less prone to human disturbances.

In their native habitat, chinchillas are colonial, living in arid, rocky environments of the Andes Mountains from southern Peru to Chile at elevations of 800 metres (2,600 feet) near the coast to 6,000 metres inland.

Branched octocorals such as P. clavata and Eunicella cavolinii are major components of the shallow and mesophotic rocky environments of the Mediterranean Sea, where they show a bathymetric distribution very similar to that observed on Vercelli Seamount [37].

Eco-morphological analyses revealed that Sarcocheilichthys variegatus microoculus from rocky and pebbly zones differed in morphology and diet, and that populations from rocky environments had longer heads and deeper bodies, which are expected to be advantageous for capturing cryptic and/or attached prey in structurally complex, rocky habitats.

The South African species of Macowania are essentially restricted to high-elevation habitats, the majority favouring rocky environments along or immediately below the Drakensberg scarp edge.