Sentence examples for biotic diversity from inspiring English sources

Despite the uncertainty, the study's authors say, it is clear that the United States "ranks quite high in terms of its biotic diversity".

A general acceleration in biotic diversity during this second phase is the beginning of the Cambrian explosion.

Their last sentence read: "It is possible that increased debris influx had a net stimulating effect on biotic diversity, despite the occasional occurrence of large impacts with destructive consequences".

Local, natural disturbances of this sort are vital to the maintenance of the full biotic diversity of the tropical rainforest (see Sidebar: Rainforest Regeneration in Panama).

Forests are the most important of these natural communities from the standpoint of area, carbon content, annual carbon fixation, the cycling of nutrient elements, and influence on energy and water budgets, as well as being the principal reservoir of biotic diversity on land.

Biotic diversity varied among golf courses.

Linear regression between biotic parameters (diversity indices) and environmental variables was tested using STATISTICA 6. Diversity of substrate types was greatest for both seamounts, varying from boulders to fines (Figure 2).

We analyzed the species-specific habitat preferences of the red-listed spider species in relation to both abiotic (altitude, slope, soil penetration resistance, soil shear strength resistance, soil texture) and biotic (vegetation cover, plant diversity, diversity of red-listed plants) factors.

Here we contend that the combined effects of this biotic and abiotic diversity promote exceptional biogeochemical heterogeneity at multiple scales.

The accomplishment of this goal is important, as it lays the foundation from which proactive conservation planning and conservation action can take place, as well as providing the baseline from which macroecological patterns of diversity, biotic change and ecological processes can be investigated and tested.

"Dioramas" reproduce natural environments to emphasize diversity in biotic communities (ecological diversity).