The phrase "adaptive in the face of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe the ability to adjust or change in response to challenges or difficult situations.
Example: "The organization proved to be adaptive in the face of economic downturns, quickly implementing new strategies to survive."
Alternatives: "flexible in response to" or "resilient when confronted with".
In our model, PCD is advantageous because it allows microbes to become more phenotypically diversified, which is adaptive in the face of environmental uncertainty.
A comparison is made with several other global and local models, and the newly developed LASS with a moving-window is shown to be more adaptive in the face of process changes, as demonstrated in the modeling of three different chemical processes.
Wise people do not suffer from excessive caution or confidence that dampens the curiosity they need to be adaptive in the face of uncertainty (Weick, 1993).
Wise people do not suffer from excessive caution or confidence that dampens the curiosity they need to be adaptive in the face of uncertainty Attributes that best distinguish wisdom from intelligence and creativity include considering advice, feeling that one can always learn from others, being a good listener, listening to all sides of an issue (Sutton & Hargadon 1996).
In a study aiming to mimic global change, Fraser et al. (2009) predicted that plastic increases in stomatal density could be adaptive in the face of concurrent moisture and temperature shifts.
As modules, they can maintain some degree of phenotypic independence from variation in the rest of the plant, which is adaptive in the face of pollinator-mediated stabilizing selection for flower size and shape (Berg 1960; Armbruster et al. 1999, 2004; Hansen et al. 2007; Pélabon et al. 2011; Murren 2012).
"It's clear that one of the biggest challenges our national parks face in their second century will be adaptive management in the face of a changing climate".
But I am convinced that human societies will continue to be capable of adaptive change in the face of massive challenges, and that at this time in history, the powers of humanity have never been greater to do so.
In the last two decades, animal neurophysiology research has made great strides towards explaining how the brain can enable adaptive action in the face of noisy sensory information.
The way forward appears to be a mix of: broadening the information input to forecasts by engaging many disciplines, Bayesian analyses of probabilities, scenario analyses of catastrophic floods based on all available evidence, and adaptive forecasting in the face of climate change.
Applying this method to two datasets from Mimulus guttatus, we infer a strong signal of adaptive divergence in the face of gene flow between populations growing on and off phytotoxic serpentine soils.
