The phrase "affect the distribution and" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing how certain factors influence the distribution of resources, data, or other elements.
Example: "Various environmental factors can affect the distribution and availability of species in an ecosystem."
Alternatives: "influence the allocation and" or "impact the spread and".
Population ecology, study of the processes that affect the distribution and abundance of animal and plant populations.
In a 2000 report, the World Health Organization identified a half-dozen factors that could affect the distribution and emergence of infectious diseases.
A CDC spokeswoman said it "remains unclear exactly how climate change may affect the distribution and timing of existing infectious disease" but said research was ongoing.
However, the design and scale of these policies can affect the distribution and size of air quality impacts, i.e. who gains from pollution reductions and by how much.
Its mission is to improve public health by learning how oceanic processes affect the distribution and persistence of human pathogens or products of toxin-producing organisms.
Flow regime changes also affect the distribution and amount of riparian vegetation that, in turn, also may enhance geomorphic responses.
Slope also affects the physical chemical properties of the soil which in turn affects the distribution and diversity of species (Enright et al. 2005).
However, the end restraints of an underground rigid pipe (i.e. steel pipe) affected the distribution and magnitude of displacement along the pipeline.
This makes us even more excited to evaluate our visual survey effort to calculate whale density differences and plot whale locations to see if and how prey shifts may have affected the distribution and abundance of the whales.
Numerous studies have demonstrated that leaf quality (e.g. content of secondary metabolites) is a major determinant affecting the distribution and abundance of herbivorous arthropods [3] [6].
