The phrase "a poor quality environment" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a setting or situation that is substandard or lacking in desirable qualities, often in discussions about living conditions, workplaces, or ecological contexts.
Example: "The report highlighted the negative effects of a poor quality environment on the health and well-being of the community."
Alternatives: "an inferior environment" or "a subpar environment".
An obvious explanation for the reduced male lifespan on the poor quality diet is that the greater costs of providing the same sized nuptial gift in a poor quality environment are manifested as the reduced allocation of resources towards somatic maintenance and repair [49].
A poor quality environment in early life generates mothers that (A ) are less effective at raising broods of 20 cross-fostered larvae and (B ) exhibit lower subsequent survival than mothers raised in a good quality early-life environment.
A poor quality environment in early life generates fathers that (A ) are less effective at raising broods of 20 cross-fostered larvae and (B ) tend to exhibit lower subsequent survival than fathers raised in a good quality early-life environment.
Noise and disruptions that result in such outcomes represent sub-optimal care and a poor quality environment for new mothers who have just experienced the delivery of a baby.
Similarly, our results suggest that male and female Pteronemobius differ in how they balance current and future reproduction in poor quality environments.
For example, Annear et al. [ 39] found that residents of an area perceived to have a poor quality physical and social environment engaged in leisure time physical activity less frequently than those living in a higher quality area of the same city.
They have identified a series of factors that "push" doctors away from their country of origin, including substandard working conditions and facilities, inadequate pay, high-stress levels, lack of clinical and administrative support and a poor quality or unsafe living environment.
A poor quality scooter might break under the pressure.
It is imperative to incorporate the full life-cycle costs of a poor-quality built environment, from materials to systems to land use and transportation.
The first possibility was that removing parents after hatching would induce a poor-quality developmental environment, yielding small individuals of low quality, that were incapable of much sustained flight behaviour.
