As in the case of differential reproduction, differential longevity of species (i.e., longer duration before extinction based on particular characteristics) can generate large-scale trends over long time periods as species with this characteristic persist and become more abundant whereas those lacking it disappear more quickly (Fig. 13d).
In multivariate analysis, after controlling for multiple confounding factors, the influence of BF duration on adult bone characteristics persisted in males.
These characteristics persisted throughout the length of the experiment.
Furthermore, even when we examined six or seven separate smaller coding categories, similar differences in patient characteristics persisted between groups (data not shown).
Nevertheless, many rural and cultural landscape characteristics persist, and past uses continue to have a significant impact on future landscape development.
Spectral analysis revealed turbulent characteristics persisting downstream of the glottis, and were captured even with a medium mesh resolution.
Even efforts to reduce bias can backfire; disparities in raises and bonuses by gender, racial, and other characteristics persist in today's organizations not only despite management's attempts to reduce them but also because of such efforts.
This is how Darwinians explain how certain physical characteristics persist even if they do not currently seem adaptive — by asking whether they might have helped our distant ancestors form social groups, feed themselves, find suitable mates or keep from getting killed.
To ensure that snags of appropriate characteristics persist for these two species of Myotis, forest managers in the northern Great Lakes forest region should retain, and manage for, large white pine (Pinus strobus) and trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides) snags at sites in forests that meet these criteria.
This region was industrialized 30 years ago, but transition areas with rural characteristics persist in the peripheral area of its cities.
The near-perfect prediction of in vivo grade from in vitro morphology, in spite of limited data, supports our assumption that morphological characteristics persist across sampling and systems.
