| He eventually gave it up, as color television and general transistorization shrank the ecological niche. |
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| Some early humans may have started eating meat as a way to survive within their own ecological niche. |
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| Host radiation allows a parasite to expand its ecological niche by adapting to one or more novel hosts. |
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| More than 3,000 species of mosquitoes are present on our planet, each occupying a distinct ecological niche. |
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| Insects have adapted to nearly every ecological niche available, from arctic to tropic and mountaintop to river bottom. |
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| Quebec's water resources constitute a vast ecological niche for aquatic organisms. |
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| I never, ever get to the end of pulling out alkanet, the local taprooted bully of my particular ecological niche. |
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| Birds such as the American Kestrel, the Eastern Kingbird and the European Starling share part of its ecological niche. |
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| Questions exist, however, about the ability of species to track changes in their ecological niche. |
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| Because of the tight correlation between dentition and ecology, dental characters can be used effectively to infer aspects of the diet or ecological niche. |
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| Its ecological niche is constituted of the stratum of shrubs with dense foliage. |
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| These and other unique plants occupy an ecological niche that few other species are suited to and can be found on many bog ecosystems. |
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| The rhizosphere is also a unique ecological niche with intense soil biological activity. |
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| This means that in fact it's not likely that any stock started with all of the best genes for its particular ecological niche. |
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| The ecological niche of an organism is its position or status within its community resulting from its structural, physiological and behavioural adaptations to the biotic and abiotic environment in which it lives. |
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| Differences are regarded as adaptations to a particular ecological niche. |
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| Yak generally share feeding, watering and grazing areas with other domestic and wild animals and this common ecological niche is thought to be a possible avenue of infection. |
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| They are highly adaptive, being seen in every every ecological niche around the world, found in locations as diverse as Antarctica and oceanic trenches. |
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| The specificity of real-time PCR was also successfully checked with a collection of European fungal species, either phylogenetically close to C. fraxinea or sharing the same ecological niche. |
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| Biologists routinely speak of animals exploiting their ecological niche. |
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| It is perfectly adapted to the island ecosystem, and occupies a similar ecological niche that the extinct myotragus had. |
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| Essentially, plankton are defined by their ecological niche rather than any phylogenetic or taxonomic classification. |
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| Other ways of defining species include similarity of DNA, morphology or ecological niche. |
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| The emergence of South American organisms is due to the widening of that organisms' ecological niche. |
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| In short, what ecological niche did the organism occupy? |
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| An ecological niche encompasses the habits of a species. |
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| The Liberian forest serves as habitat for large amounts of endemic flora and fauna and is a unique ecological niche for some of the rarest species in the world. |
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| Whether it's fishing practices, habitat destruction, or both, there is now an ecological niche open, which is often the catalyst for an introduced species to become an invasive and destructive one. |
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| How important are the ecological niche migrations in the Mediterranean and, as a corollary, the displacement of invasive species towards the North? |
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| The warmth produced overheats the sea water, producing negative impacts, especially over those species that have a very demanding ecological niche, like the species that make up the coral reefs. |
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| This bacterial carrier permits the continuous production of fresh, infective phages on the flower surface, while competing with the pathogen for the ecological niche provided by the blossom. |
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| This particular ecological niche buffered them from extinction. |
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| Assessing the geographic range of Black-fronted Ground-Tyrants using extralimital and winter range occurrence records and ecological niche modeling. |
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| This fish was a pioneer for the ecological niche filled today by mammals, like blue whales, and cartilaginous fish, such as manta rays, basking sharks and whale sharks. |
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