Sentence examples for by the fragmentation gradient from inspiring English sources

Accordingly, we are confident that female virulence was unaffected by the fragmentation gradient.

The density of adult butterflies was not affected by the fragmentation gradient, although the parasitism rate decreased with increasing butterfly densities.

The instantaneous density of adult Pieris brassicae was estimated along the fragmentation gradient by counting the number of butterflies in each study plot during 10 minutes, once a week, simultaneously, during periods with a wind speed less than 5 on the Beaufort scale, air temperature ≥17°C and sunshine ≥75%.

By contrast, the parasitoid virulence (the number of parasitoid cocoons per parasited caterpillar) remained constant all along the fragmentation gradient, which suggests no alteration in the parasitoid efficiency.

We investigated how the parasitism rates inside the traps were related to their position along the fragmentation gradient.

These two variables were considered as representative for the habitat fragmentation gradient.

Traps were placed at 30 sites arranged along a fragmentation gradient in the Île-de-France region that encompasses the city of Paris (Fig. 1A).

The first and strongest component described a fragmentation gradient ranging from landscapes dominated by a single land cover type to more diverse, patchy landscapes, and was similar in all three analyses.

These can be used for both change assessment and ranking of different sections of the study area according to a fragmentation gradient in relation to matrix quality.

But he was disturbed by the fragmentation he encountered in people's lives.

Identified sequences were confirmed manually by inspecting the fragmentation spectra.