The phrase "affect the persistence of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing how one factor influences the duration or stability of another factor.
Example: "The environmental conditions can significantly affect the persistence of certain chemicals in the soil."
Alternatives: "influence the duration of" or "impact the stability of".
"If these bleaching events happen more regularly, the reefs won't have the time to recover between the bleaching events – and that will affect the persistence of the reef".
These dynamics could affect the persistence of such relict species.
The presence of the WT strain did not adversely affect the persistence of the GM strain.
Climate change is likely to affect the persistence of large, space-requiring species through habitat shifts, loss, and fragmentation.
Herbivores and invasive plants strongly affect the persistence of individual species and the overall composition of forest plant communities.
Several factors may affect the persistence of amphibian species in tropical fragmented landscapes, including the size of remaining patches.
A critical question in conservation biology concerns how loss of natural habitat affects the persistence of plant and animal populations and the distribution of genetic variation within them.
In summary, we isolated a novel variant from a wild mouse population, which abolished behavioral circadian rhythms under DD, and mapped the positions of the multiple QTLs affecting the persistence of circadian rhythmicity and τ.
In these studies, we explore how imbalanced BER affects the persistence of AP sites and frameshift mutations in yeast and how the accumulation of BER intermediates is linked to a DNA damage specific transcriptional response.
Thus, this relationship between duplication age and phenotypic significance supports the hypothesis that natural selection affects the persistence of functional compensation.
