Sentence examples for allocation to growth from inspiring English sources

Higher extrinsic mortality for uninfected hosts compared to parasitic castrators can select for a lower allocation to growth for uninfected hosts compared to the amount allocated by parasitic castrators.

Ecological theory relating resource availability and plant allocation to growth and defense, was originally formulated at the interspecific scale [36], [48], but it has also been applied at the within-species scale [49] [51].

Increased extrinsic mortality should select for decreased allocation to growth and for increased reproductive effort.

The relative reproductive allocation index directly factored in variation in allocation to growth.

This shift revealed a likely underlying negative genetic correlation between allocation to growth and reproduction in the base population (Schluter 1996).

From this perspective, perenniality is closely associated with greater resource allocation to growth and somatic maintenance at the expense of current reproduction.

Increased resource allocation to root growth is thought to increase water acquisition and therefore adaptation to drought (Chimungu et al. 2014).

If GRT is sufficient, growth of both soma and gonads occurs, the allometric relationship is maintained (eqn 3) and there is full allocation to gonadal growth (eqn 4).

Yet whether changes in δ13C linked to drought are also associated with declines in annual carbon assimilation and allocation to stem growth remains unclear.

Ratios between below and above-ground growth were significantly reduced by ∼60% the first week after exposure and remained lower for up to three weeks suggesting reduced carbon allocation to root growth.

Yet whether δ13C signals obtained from tree rings also reflect rates of annual carbon assimilation and allocation to stem growth remains unclear (Ferrio et al. 2003; Peñuelas et al. 2008; Jansen et al. 2013; Belmecheri et al. 2014; Hentschel et al. 2016; Shestakova et al. 2017).