Sentence examples for biotic data from inspiring English sources

The correlation between sediment and biotic data and well-known historical events suggests a reliable history of environmental changes in this area during the last 2000 years.

The BEST-procedure performs a stepwise search and Spearman rank correlation to find a minimum combination of environmental variables which results in maximum possible correlation with the biotic data.

The current zoning plan for the 870 km2 Solitary Islands Marine Park (SIMP), designed without algorithm tools, provides an example to compare the efficiency of zoning scenarios that include or ignore the existing zoning scheme and to assess the utility of habitat and/or biotic data for planning.

An example of the sorts of biotic data available but not accessible are those from fisheries surveys concerned with nontarget species.

Large-scale repeatable analyses of deep-sea biotic data are also crucial to developing a broad understanding of deep-sea diversity patterns.

Three areas in need of technological innovations and recommendations for future sampling involve improving the accuracy of species-level identifications, making such information more rapidly available, and conducting large-scale repeatable analyses of deep-sea biotic data.

Since no detectable bacterial growth was associated with low molecular weight alkanes in any biotic system (data not shown) and considering that such hydrocarbons were exhausted in the abiotic systems due to volatilization, we suggest that substrate unavailability was the main limiting factor that affected the time-course and fate of such hydrocarbons.

Identical results were obtained both on abiotic and biotic surfaces (data not shown).

We examined patterns of ecosystem diversity, deforestation and fragmentation and provided an estimate on their possible causes through a temporal and spatial analysis of biotic and abiotic data using remote sensing and geographical information systems in six pilot areas covering a total of 4,200,000 ha.

To obtain information at microhabitat scale, we sampled pteridophyte diversity, as well as biotic and abiotic data, in 225 sample plots within these 82 patches.

Similarities between biotic and abiotic data were afterwards calculated using Spearman's rank correlation [50].