It is also possible to see in animals that a high genetic diversity is beneficial in providing resiliency against harsh abiotic stressors.

Although alkaloids act on a diversity of metabolic systems in humans and other animals, they almost uniformly invoke a bitter taste.

A baby eastern bongo at Louisville Zoo in Kentucky. To illustrate significance of genetic diversity loss ; assume the average metapopulation size is 35 animals based on 140 animals spread across four populations ( 140 / 4 = 35 ).

Salt marshes and beaches also support a diversity of plants, animals, and insects crucial to the food chain.

This diversity in organisms that show parental origin effects has prompted theorists to place the evolutionary origin of genomic imprinting before the last common ancestor of plants and animals, over a billion years ago.

Small groups of animals with little opportunity for exchange between them face the risk of inbreeding, decreased genetic diversity, and even extinction.

Systematics is also of major importance in understanding conservation issues because it attempts to explain the Earth's biodiversity and could be used to assist in allocating limited means to preserve and protect endangered species, by looking at, for example, the genetic diversity among various taxa of plants or animals and deciding how much of that to preserve.

The park also has a rich diversity of animals, including bald eagles, wolves, grizzly bears, mountain lions, lynx, moose, wolverines and black bears.

The federal nature-protect law ( Bundesnaturschutzgesetz, since 1976 ) requires that wild animals and plants and their community should be protected as part of the ecosystem in the specific diversity which has grown naturally and historically, and their biotope and other living conditions should be protected, preserved, developed, and restored.

This finding substantially extended the geographical range of these animals and has raised new questions about the worldwide distribution and great taxonomic diversity they achieved within a relatively short time.

Humans, and grazing animals, were active participants in the process of prairie formation and the establishment of the diversity of graminoid and forbs species.

At one point, the land mass of Bermuda was about, large enough to allow the genetic diversity for many plants and animals that established themselves to develop into unique species and sub-species.

Such interactions lead to dramatic influences on diversity, as areas with greater mistletoe densities support higher diversities of animals.

The park is home to a rich diversity of threatened plants and animals including ; The Nightcap Oak Eidothea hardeniana ( discovered in 2000 ), the Peach Myrtle Uromyrtus australis and The Minyon Quandong Elaeocarpus sedentarius.

Werrikimbe Park is noted for a rich diversity of plants and animals, rainforest, extensive wilderness, scenic wild rivers and opportunities for outdoor recreation in a remote location.

The variety of habitats within Wollemi National Park allow for large diversity in animals.

Capricornia Cays National Park is noted for its biological diversity, beauty and for provided habitat for a number of endangered plants and animals.

These habitats maintain a community of plants and animals, with the site being particularly known for its diversity of invertebrate species.

Without the stresses of salinity that is undergone by its salt water counterpart, the diversity of the plants and animals that live in and use these marshes is much higher than salt marshes.

He believes that the animals carried on Noah's ark produced the biological diversity observed on Earth.

In the past few decades, paramyxoviruses have been discovered from terrestrial, volant and aquatic animals, demonstrating a vast host range and great viral genetic diversity.

Some of the lower jaws probably represent the same animals as some of the upper, so the diversity of Paulchoffatiids is very possibly exaggerated.

The goal of this expedition was to study the area's undersea fauna by means of dredging and helmet diving, and Beebe and his team were surprised by the diversity of animals that they encountered there.

Conserving the biological diversity of Polylepis woodlands of the highlands on Peru and Bolivia, a contribution to sustainable natural resource management in the Andes.

Chile has a great diversity of natural landscapes, from the Mars-like landscapes of the hyperarid Atacama Desert to the glacier-fed fjords of the Chilean Patagonia, passing by the winelands backdropped by the Andes of the Central Valley and the old-growth forests of the Lakes District.

The family is a classic member of the Antarctic flora, with its main centres of diversity in Australasia, particularly New Caledonia, Tasmania and New Zealand, and to a slightly lesser extent Malesia and South America ( primarily in the Andes mountains ).

The highest species diversity is in the Andes.

The University of the Andes, an autonomous and independent institution, states that it fosters pluralism, diversity, dialogue, debate, criticism, tolerance and respect towards its members ' ideas, beliefs and values.

The diversity of the PUCV is one of its strengths, with a rainbow trout farm near Los Andes, a legislative consultancy group ( CEAL ), a farm in Quillota with an area of 6 km², a fruit packing house specialized in avocados and citrus fruits ( joint venture with Exportadora Santa Cruz ), a small TV channel that has been on the air since 1957 ( the first in the country ), a radio station, a publishing house, and an experimental grade school and high school for boys in Viña del Mar.

The interesting thing in this connection is that the norms upon which students tend to converge include toleration of diversity.

There is a common problem behind most of these federal question and diversity cases.

The first is that enforcement of national law in state litigation raises in reverse the old diversity puzzle of the relation of procedure to substance.

Algerian music is a perfect reflection of the cultural diversity that characterizes the country, music directories are distinguished by a profusion of several styles.

The taxonomic diversity of the monocotyledons is described in detail by Kubitzki.

Owing to the diversity of ethnicities in Hawaii and the history of the Chinese influence in Hawaii, resident Chinese cuisine forms a component of the cuisine of Hawaii, which is a fusion of different culinary traditions.

The purpose of RHA is to enhance the quality of residence hall life and provide a cohesive voice for the residents by addressing the concerns of the on-campus populations to university administrators and other campus organizations ; providing cultural, diversity, educational, and social programming ; establishing and working with individual hall councils.

In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is the evolution of ecological and phenotypic diversity within a rapidly multiplying lineage.

Today, the Valley is still largely dominated by agriculture but also has a growing diversity in its economies, partly aided by the importance of post-secondary education centres provided by Acadia University in Wolfville, and the Nova Scotia Community College campuses located in Kentville, Middleton, Lawrencetown, and Digby.

Compared with most other classes of natural compounds, alkaloids are characterized by a great structural diversity and there is no uniform classification of alkaloids.

The large and diverse population of antibodies is generated by random combinations of a set of gene segments that encode different antigen binding sites ( or paratopes ), followed by random mutations in this area of the antibody gene, which create further diversity.

Current hypotheses suggest that asexual reproduction may have short term benefits when rapid population growth is important or in stable environments, while sexual reproduction offers a net advantage by allowing more rapid generation of genetic diversity, allowing adaptation to changing environments.

The diversity of invertebrate body plans is matched by an equal diversity in brain structures.

The family is cosmopolitan but is concentrated in the northern temperate regions and reaches maximal diversity around the Mediterranean area.

Like other genera associated with the early history of microbiology, such as Pseudomonas or Vibrio, members of the Bacillus genus ( 266 species ) are found ubiquitously, and it is one of the genera with the largest 16S diversity and environmental diversity.

The Bacillus-specific study with the most diversity covered is by Xu and Cote ' using 16S and the ITS region, where they divide the genus into 10 groups, which includes the nested genera Paenibacillus, Brevibacillus, Geobacillus, Marinibacillus and Virgibacillus.

The biodiversity characteristic of each extinction, especially the diversity of fauna and subdominant plant forms, is a function of abiotic factors and the biomass productivity of the dominant vegetation.

One of the most notable characteristics of the modern study of classics is the diversity of the field.