For example, savanna species are adapted to decreased soil fertility and water availability (Ruggiero et al. [2002]) and to regular fires (Moreira [2000]; Miranda et al. [2002]), factors that may lead to the local extinction of forest species.
In this alternative letter, the informational content was similar to the original PHS letter but the content was simplified and adapted to decrease possible negative associations and promote a more positive attitude towards chlamydia (see The invitation letters).
Particle compositions probably change dramatically as components adapt to decreasing gas-phase concentration due to dilution, so number distribution evolution is also an evolution of composition.
Thus, RV may need to adapt to decreased (or increased) opportunities for transmission depending on the life history and behaviour of its host species.
Drought impacts may be stronger in moist forests of the humid tropics, which may be less adapted to cope with decreasing water availability given their canopy structure variation in our dataset.
Minimally invasive techniques have been adapted to surgical oncology, decreasing morbidity and addressing the quest for optimal function after tumour resection [ 16– 16].
Hypoxia-inducible factors (HIFs) are DNA-binding transcription factors that transactivate a series of hypoxia-associated genes under hypoxic conditions to adapt to the decreased oxygen tension.
Primary ageing is not attributed to a specific cause and is referred to currently expected sum of changes, physiological, genetic, and molecular, that occurs with the passage of time from fertilization to death (slow movements, declining vision and hearing, inability to adapt to stress, decrease in resistance to infections, and others).
These modifications likely reduce the degree to which populations are adapted to their local conditions, thereby decreasing mean fitness and possibly compromising population productivity or persistence (Bürger and Lynch 1995; Gomulkiewicz and Holt 1995; Stockwell et al. 2003; Frankham 2005; Both et al. 2006; Kinnison and Hairston 2007).
The rates of regression and progression between stages of disease used in the earlier model (Barnabas et al, 2006) were adapted to allow linear increase and decrease in rates with age rather than a sudden increase in progression rates at age 35.
