Ecological niche

products can be found in the environment through a wide array of anthropogenic activities such as mining, nuclear and power generation industries and the production of phosphate fertilizers .(Sprynskyy et al. 2011) They pose a severe, long term ecological and public health threat (Khani 2011, Landa 2003) and therefore there is a considerable effort in the removal of these pollutants before their final discharge in the environment, as well as their recovery as an energy resource (Pang et al.…

This datasheet provided information on common slugs. It went into short detail about slugs’ dietary needs and how this can be damaging to plants kept in the yard. It also discussed slugs’ basic activity patterns and how they are drawn out at night and occasionally on rainy days. The main purpose of this sheet, however, was to provide information on how to maintain slug populations in your yard. The methods described included the elimination of shelter, using fermented materials as bait in a trap…

secondary compounds that they synthesize (Demain 1981). These micro organism live in a highly diverse environment ranging from hot springs to deep ocean sediments. In the hyper diverse environment where one can find a specialized and unique biological niche is the intracellular space between cells of higher plants acts as suite and supports the growth of microbes and the one which grows there is called as endophytes (Strobel and Daisy 2003).  Endophytes The word endophyte literally means “In…

Green Consumerism : The effects on environmental knowledge, concern and attitude Introduction Owing to the sudden surge of environmental concerns and the efforts taken by multiple organizations both governmental, non-governmental and independent environmentalists to increase awareness of human impact on the environment, green consumerism has become an important global phenomenon. Business organizations today view green initiatives as potential market opportunities rather than mere regulations…

(2011:12) explains “the arrival of species evolving in a same ecological niche might have led to strong competition and perhaps contributed to the demise of Neanderthals, although competition alone cannot account for Neanderthal extinction.” The substantial isotopic database established competition between Neanderthals…

other hand, ecological psychologists suggest that it is not ‘what’s inside the head’ but ‘what’s the head inside of’. J. J. Gibson (1977) found that perception and action evolve with the environment; therefore they should be studied together. However, Descartes made an ontological distinction between mind and matter, explaining that mind doesn’t occupy space while matter does. Neisser’s (1967) perceptual cycle describes evolution as “the accumulation of adaptations, organisms and niches mutually…

The film’s overall claim is that, as a result of man’s pollution and the increase of greenhouse gases, there has been to an increase in global temperatures over recent years that falls under the term of global warming. Al Gore qualifies his claim by explaining that not all greenhouse gases are as destructive to the atmosphere as we would think. He explains that we need some greenhouse gases to retain some of the sun’s rays so that the Earth can maintain a suitable temperature for the survival…

Hot and Cold spots of selection: Parasitoid attack of fungus-growing ants Abstract: It is known that fungus-growing ants, and their integral mutualism with fungus, allowed for their exploitation of new niches; which resulted in diversified lineages. However, there may have been other factors that refined these lineages into the resulting clades and species we see today. Diapriidae wasps are extremely common in the Neotropics; and poorly understood phylogenetically and ecologically. However,…

In all the years that have past there is only ever been a few theories of evolution; evolution is how different organisms have developed or diversified from earlier ancestors in the history of the earth and is also known as the diversity of life. Evolution usually occurs very slowly, over long, extensive amounts of time. The idea of evolution can go as far back as the middle ages, because Aristotle explained all natural things are flawed and can be fixed in a natural way such as changing forms,…

second the presence of humans (Caldecott, 2005). Despite being largely solitary, orangutans have individual and community interactions (Cribb, 2014). The food resources of a forest are limited; this forces animal species to develop their own ecological niche to reduce competition (Caldecott, 2005). Orangutans usually share most of their preferred fruit with about 5 other primate species. All these primates eat fruits and leaves; all are active in the forest canopy but differ in food selection…