Sentence examples for trophic role from inspiring English sources

During the course of Pleistocene prehistory, humans were few in numbers and constrained by their technology and social organization from unlimited spatial expansion or assuming the trophic role of a super predator.

The smaller predator therefore played a functionally redundant trophic role across the prey classes considered, augmenting and potentially stabilizing trophic regulation of juvenile snails.

In light of the precipitous rise in circulating catecholamines at parturition, and of the subsequent development of sympathetic innervation, catecholamines are likely to play a trophic role in the establishment of the proper pattern of cardiac cell development.

In animals, all processes (bioconcentration, bioaccumulation, and biomagnification) are possible, but uptake patterns are different in relation to the type of environment (aquatic and terrestrial) and the trophic role of the organism.

Obviously, the relevance of these processes and the patterns of uptake are substantially different in the different organisms, depending upon their biological characteristics, their ecological and trophic role, the type of environment (aquatic or terrestrial), and the physical and chemical properties of the PPP.

As a result, their overall consumption of plant foods and their trophic role in the food web remain unchanged.

The biology and ecology of some model organisms, and how we can model the whole of the marine microbes, are dealt with, and some of the trophic roles that have changed in the last years are discussed.

The trophic roles of key Ponto-Caspian invaders (quagga mussels Dreissena bugensis, amphipods Echinogammarus ischnus and round goby Apollonia melanostomus) within the littoral food web of eastern Lake Erie were quantified using stable isotopes (δ13C, δ15N).

Study of invertebrates such as beetles (Coleoptera) may be important to assess the effectiveness of restoration techniques in maintaining native fauna, because they provide a variety of trophic roles and ecosystem services.

Although the Additive Jaccard Similarity (AJS) has been widely used to measure trophic similarity between species, it has also been criticized for its limited ability to find species with equivalent trophic roles, especially when they do not share the same predators and prey.

Fig. 2 Dual isotope plots of fish by trophic roles and trophic levels (TL) at the three study sites.