The phrase "a trait that contributes" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing characteristics or qualities that have a positive impact on a situation or outcome.
Example: "Empathy is a trait that contributes to effective leadership, fostering trust and collaboration among team members."
Alternatives: "a quality that enhances" or "a characteristic that aids".
Conscientiousness may not be the only personality trait that contributes towards professional behaviour but it is one that is perhaps the most important and easy to measure [ 10].
For example, the ability of a population to persist in the face of environmental change is ultimately determined by the complex multivariate interaction of all traits that contribute to population growth.
On-farm testing has shown that drought tolerance is a trait that can contribute to the food security of many resource-poor farmers who live in harsh, low-rainfall environments.
Using a protocol developed with input from broccoli breeders and wholesale buyers, Quality trial leaders rate each broccoli hybrid on more than a dozen traits that contribute to crown appearance, uniformity, ease of harvest, and durability – in short, a crown with an attractive appearance that will hold up well on the journey from farm to plate.
Each entry is rated with respect to more than a dozen traits that contribute to crown quality, including bead (flower bud) size and uniformity, crown shape, and color, as well as the ability to maintain quality for a few days in the field once mature.
Plant-feeding cecidomyiid larvae have highly specialized antagonistic relationships with host plants and have been called 'reprogrammers of plant genomes' [ 28] because of their ability to manipulate the plant to create a specialized nutritive tissue that provides a superior diet for the larva [ 29, 30], a trait that is thought to have contributed to adaptive radiation [ 31, 32].
Alternatively, as demonstrated later we can select a given number of traits that contribute most to the test statistic.
For long lived tree species, such as poplar, this requires an understanding of the traits that contribute to biomass production and their genetic control.
What the PCL-R does provide, however, is a description of the emotional and interpersonal style of a psychopath, and the personality traits that contribute to deviant behavior.
We argue that these results are demonstrative of a number of biomechanical and morphological traits that contribute to the pervasiveness of the species, its management challenges, and its function as an ecosystem engineer, whereby it alters the physical structure of river channels by deflecting flow and building large sediment accumulations.
