Sentence examples for small taxa from inspiring English sources
Traditionally, the study of invasions in aquatic ecosystems has had a strong focus on economically important and visible species, whereas invasive populations of small taxa (e.g. plankton) or groups that are difficult to identify at the species level (e.g. chironomids) have rarely been considered.
Positive values of PC 2 indicate a larger proportion of Very Small taxa while negative values suggest a greater proportion of Small taxa and Carnivores.
The addition of vertebrate microfossil localities to an assemblage may help overcome this problem because these sites better reflect the community structure of the surrounding landscape, including both large and small taxa [106].
Therefore, we consider A. means and A. tridactylum gigantic species, as they are among the largest extant amphibians, and based on the information above we consider P. cretacea, A. jepseni, A. pholeter, plethodontids, and rhyacotritonids to be small taxa.
Because of this, and the potential for NISP to underestimate small taxa in layers that were not wet screened, an alternative method based on weight is used to quantify the remains.
Furthermore, Bonner's (2006) hypothesis only accounts for the increase in size range, but not for a general shift towards larger average body size which is what happened in the sauropod lineage, in which even small taxa are one order of magnitude larger than their basal sauropodomorph ancestors.
The cheek teeth of larger sivaladapids, such as Sivaladapis and Guangxilemur, were clearly adapted for folivory, but those of smaller taxa such as Paukkaungia likely evolved for a diet primarily of fruits.
Over the years several smaller taxa were segregated from this taxon, but their separateness was recently questioned based on molecular studies outcomes.
Under key anthropogenic stressors (e.g. nutrient enrichment and urbanization), these species are replaced by persistent and smaller taxa, defined as turf-forming algae.
Our results for smaller taxa are more ambiguous.
Our method does account for size effects, using a hip-height-based approach for smaller taxa and a muscle volume-based approach for larger taxa.
