Sentence examples for widespread taxa from inspiring English sources

For example, numerous authors have concluded that geographically widespread taxa appear to survive extinction events better than taxa with more limited distributions.

The current study examines this phenomenon using a series of relatively widespread taxa, all within a single genus of spiders, Selenops.

But often, area cladograms include widespread taxa (taxa present in more than one area), such as the ratite genus Casuarius in Australia and New Guinea, or redundant distributions (several taxa occurring in the same area), such as the kiwis and moas in New Zealand (Fig. 1c, center).

These predicted genetic patterns are based largely on our understanding of glaciation history in Northern Hemisphere systems, yet remain poorly tested in analogous Southern Hemisphere arid systems because few examples in the literature allow the comparison of widespread taxa distributed across mountain and desert biomes.

Perhaps widespread taxa have greater dispersal abilities (and thus can move away from the area of stress to seek out a safe haven or refuge, then disperse back into available areas when the stress passes), or perhaps they are more ecologically diverse (and thus more likely to exploit a wider variety of resources, not all of which will be affected equally by the environmental stressor).

First, we are not comparing widespread taxa to narrowly distributed taxa; we are assessing whether or not two groups of taxa have different spatial and temporal distributions.

Ontogenetic shifts in microhabitat use are widespread among taxa and can result in drastic shifts in thermal habitat among age classes.

The bacterial communities on the leaf surfaces of temperate forest trees include widespread generalist taxa, some which vary with time and location, and those that associate with particular tree species (Laforest-Lapointe et al. 2016).

Same-sex sexual behaviour is widespread across taxa and is particularly common in insects, in which up to 50% of copulation attempts by males are directed towards other males in some species.

Wallace was struck by both the high number of animal groups endemic to this area as well as the absence from it of many widespread Eurasian taxa.

The acquisition of new genes with the potential to affect male fitness is widespread across taxa.