Sentence examples for changing trait from inspiring English sources

Ecologists are increasingly interested in predicting how intraspecific variation and changing trait values impact species interactions and community composition.

Both direct and second-order consequences of a changing trait may have implications for feedbacks between ecology and evolution, and detailing these inter-relationships will necessarily involve exciting research (for a relevant example of natural predation see Palkovacs et al. 2009).

Radically changing traits that have been shaped over time runs the very real risk of tipping the balance in unexpected, and potentially unpleasant, directions.

However, mutations have also occurred, which are undirected (i.e., they occur at random in terms of the consequences of changing traits), leading to both lighter and darker offspring in Generation 2 as compared to their parents in Generation 1.

In addition to changing mean trait values, anthropogenic selection could have contradictory effects on the variance of traits.

But the new evidence that humans have adapted rapidly and extensively suggests that natural selection must have other options for changing a trait besides waiting for the right mutation to show up.

I was committed to changing that trait.

The first step to changing a trait gone rogue is to recognize it.

Which would I choose first?" So, changing one trait, my options would be: white straight male, black gay male, and white gay female.

This result is coherent with the different theoretical constructs measured by the STAI: changing a trait is harder than changing a state.

The PANAS and STAI trait scale items relate to how the participant feels "in general" rather than in the moment, and it seems likely that changing general trait measures is more difficult than changing measures of a specific fear.