The phrase "are characteristically low" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a general tendency or typical behavior of a subject, indicating that it usually has low values or characteristics.
Example: "The temperatures in this region are characteristically low during the winter months."
Alternatives: "tend to be low" or "are typically low".
They are characteristically low lying and conspicuously foliated with abundance of platy biotite minerals sandwiched into zones that are markedly distinguishable from the light-coloured quartzo-feldspartic portions.
Nitrogen fixation by microorganisms within biocrust communities provides an important pathway for N inputs in cool desert environments that are characteristically low in nutrient availability and have a paucity of symbiotic N-fixing plants.
The levels of surface immunoglobulin, CD20, and CD79 are characteristically low compared to those found on normal B cells [ 2].
Bogs receive water mainly from precipitation, are characteristically low in nutrients and oxygen and are highly acidic.
In ORD, sex steroids are characteristically low, sometimes low normal, whilst pregnenolone and progesterone and their metabolites accumulate, as expression of the combined block of CYP21A2 and CYP17A1 activities.
Furthermore, rates of adherence with these interventions, which are characteristically low [ 7], may be improved by incorporating program content and functions that increase therapeutic efficiency by targeting intervening processes directly [ 8].
"Turnover has been characteristically low, reflecting our long-term investment horizons.
The viscosity of the copolymer solutions is characteristically low and invariant with shear rate.
Mr. Feige is characteristically low key about that plan, which is one of the most ambitious undertakings in Hollywood history.
The greatest tribute was yet to come, when McCabe became the surprise entry on that year's Booker shortlist, though his reaction to the news was characteristically low key: "The Booker thing came as a complete shock.
In disseminated MAC infection, the sensitivity of acid-fast smears and cultures from the respiratory tract is characteristically low [ 48].
