Sentence examples for trophic diversification from inspiring English sources

Specifically, our result suggests that the decreased potential for morphological diversification in mouthbrooding fish might constrain trophic diversification.

The results of both types of analysis indicate that the morphological and biomechanical adaptations associated with damselfish planktivory represent a major component of their trophic diversification.

Changes in the biomechanics of the maxilla and premaxilla have been a major component of the trophic diversification of the Pomacentridae.

The capacity to modify intestinal morphology and physiology may also be an important facilitator of trophic diversification during other phyletic radiations.

Moreover, this subset of basal resources that are preferentially consumed shows relatively broad but consistent patterns of δC variation that can be used to inform our understanding of trophic diversification and specialization among loricariid lineages.

We assembled a time-calibrated phylogeny of the 69 species from previously published phylogenetic analyses (see the electronic supplementary material, figure S2) and timetree.org to trace the history of trophic diversification within clades.

Extensive work on trophic adaptive diversification has shown that the evolution of trophic phenotypes was an important dimension of ecomorphological diversification during the geophagine radiation; our study offers a complementary look at the diversification of locomotor morphology.

The limited diversification of trophic habits in comparison with the other two niche components could be due to relatively slow evolutionarily rates.

Although relationships between the C N P ratios and the isotopic signatures of loricariid trophic resources remain uninvestigated, diversification of aquatic consumers along an δN/δC gradient has been shown to be consistent with differential assimilation of dietary components diverging in elemental ratios [ 15].

From such a basal stock there has been a complex diversification (radiation) of trophic adaptations.

In addition to the possible ecological implications for forest regeneration, there is a great interest in understanding the advantages of this dietary shift in dung beetles from dung to acorns, as well as the possible physiological and reproductive implications of this diversification in the trophic niche.