The Biological Standard of Living indicates how well the human organism itself thrives in its socio-economic and epidemiological environment.

Irritated tissue is more susceptible to infection than normal tissue, and many infection-causing organisms thrive in environments that are warm, damp, and dark.

Very few organisms can survive and thrive after a radical change to their environment.

As the paper says, "height is indicative of how well the human organism thrives in its socioeconomic environment."

Where the limpets eat the algae, off bare rocks, it causes places where other organisms can grow and thrive.

In the ocean, high chlorophyll concentrations are concentrated in areas where tiny, plant-like organisms (phytoplankton) thrive.

Microscopic organisms thrive and larger species enter a rapid breeding cycle.

Early in the cleanup job algae and other organisms thrived in the water that fills the reactor chamber and specialists extracting the fuel could no longer see it.

The organisms with good mutations - beneficial changes - thrive and reproduce, while those with bad mutations die out.