"absence of environment" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation where there is no environment present. For example, "The absence of environment on the moon makes it difficult for humans to survive."
A recent meta-analysis comparing populations before and after anthropogenic disturbance found that evolved changes in population-level 'plasticity' (defined as change in the population's response slope, in the absence of environment-specific adaptive criteria) were idiosyncratic in plants, with no clear trends in the direction of change for specific types of trait (Crispo et al. 2010).
If the old cliché is true about elections always being about "the economy, stupid", the curious absence of the environment from the UK election debate is even stranger.
We questioned the absence of shared environment and examined the specific contribution of additive and non-additive genetic influences.
The marine fishes are drifted from their conventional ocean zone into different places because of the absence of favorable environment.
We show that in the absence of this environment the social and economic costs borne by families during public health emergencies are non-trivial and unevenly distributed across the affected population.
At variance, the transfection of the p53Arg/p53Pro alleles in absence of hypoxic environment, elicited a similar degree of cell death in HEP-3B cells as well as the p53Arg allele elicited a higher degree of cell death than the p53Pro in MDA-MB-157 and PC3 cells.
In the absence of genotype-environment interactions that can occur when seedstock animals are managed in different and typically superior environments compared to those of commercial animals [ 13], those gains are passed on to the commercial cow-calf sector by the sale of improved bulls (or semen) to be used as sires.
Is there any indication from the literature for why these genes may be important in the absence of toxic environments?
There were no significant differences in reports of self-blame across the three genotype groups (p =.22), suggesting an absence of gene-environment correlation between 5HTTLPR genotype and children's report of self-blame.
"Being a child in Colombia today means, for many children, facing obstacles and risks associated with the lack of opportunities, the absence of protective environments that guarantee children's development and integral protection, and the problems related to poverty," said Maya. "Six out of 10 boys and girls under the age of six live in poverty," he added.
