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The sex ratio of this species has not been determined (Boletzky et al., 2005), but the lack of females found could be representative of natural sex-ratios or could be due to the potential solitary nature of females (Lewis and Choat, 1993).

We expected macroinvertebrate and macrophyte assemblages in raw-water storages to be representative of natural water bodies, while waste-water treatment storages would not, due to degraded water quality.

Our analysis of low density growth rates are based on transplanted plugs, which may not be representative of natural plants.

However, this prevalence may not be representative of natural populations insofar as our sample size for this species was small.

Also, these previous studies were performed in controlled laboratory environment that may not be representative of natural conditions, and thus translated into differential patterns of expression in controlled versus natural environments.

Complementary ex situ conservation actions for this species such as collection and storage of seeds preserved in João do Amaral Franco Seed Bank (Ajuda Botanical Garden) have also been conducted (Caperta et al. 2013) with the hope that the genetic diversity contained in these collections could be representative of natural populations.

Macrophyte assemblages in raw-water storages were representative of natural water bodies, but were less diverse and abundant in, or absent from, waste-water treatment storages.

These strains have been selected to be genetically diverse, on the basis of their phylogenetically distinct breeding background, and thus likely to be representative of the natural allelic pool.

2 This layout in BIXI bike stations allows the programme to cater to a wide array of Torontonians and helped to increase the diversity of our study population to be representative of the natural Toronto population.

Moreover, as dummy nests may not be representative of predation rates of natural nests, we focus on the variation in relative predation risk similar to previous studies of patterns of nest predation [ 14].

Whether the level of WNV activity observed during 2005 will be representative of the arbovirus's natural equilibrium within the central Red River Valley remains to be seen.