The phrase "as a main explanation for" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the primary reason or justification for a particular phenomenon or situation.
Example: "The researchers identified climate change as a main explanation for the drastic changes in weather patterns observed over the last decade."
Alternatives: "as a primary reason for" or "as a key factor in".
The finding that the number of sires of a brood of L. saxatilis is as high as 15 23 thus challenges our earlier suggestion that genetic bet-hedging is a main explanation for polyandry in this species [24].
Changes in injection practice and type of drugs used, coupled with a concurrent reduction in HCV prevalence, do not support drug injection as the main explanation for an increased HIV transmission in people entering drug treatment services for the first time.
A partial "check-valve" bronchiolar obstruction has been considered as the main explanation for cyst formation because the bronchiolar obstruction due to the lymphatic infiltration leads to a consequent partial air trapping [97, 98].
Although these authors reject "blood stealing" as the main explanation for negative BOLD, their results suggest that there is a link and perhaps a spatial dependency between the negative and positive BOLD responses in adjacent regions of the cortex.
One hypothesis stresses the importance of the role of climate in defining the different diagenetic pathways, and the other the continued action of the combined diagenetic factors along time as the main explanation for the variability in the state of preservation of the bones in Paso Otero 1.
The criterion for diagnosis of ALI was derived from the American-European Consensus Conference definition: bilateral pulmonary infiltrates and hypoxemia (ALI: PaO2/FIO2 < 300; ARDS: PaO2/ FIO2 < 200) in the absence of clinical signs of left atrial hypertension as the main explanation for pulmonary edema.
This "Partition of Resources Model", in which resource allocation to one trait means deprivation to another, has been proposed as the main explanation for trade-offs between life-history traits [7], [14].
Central fatigue has been consistently demonstrated as the main explanation for neuromuscular fatigue after ultra-endurance exercise on KE [2], [6] and a recent study suggested that this central drive reduction was not as high for PF as for KE after a 24 h treadmill run [2].
