Sentence examples for colony scale from inspiring English sources

This systematic association occasionally reached the colony scale, with "twin" colonies of both species often observed growing next to each other when isolated structures were occurring off-reefs.

These data provide a broader understanding of potentially desirable and undesirable groups of bacteria through time, but they do not yet provide insight into the spatial heterogeneity at the colony scale or connectivity of these microbial consortia.

This phenomenon can occur from the colony scale to the geographical scale where it leads to "mass" coral bleaching with occasional high mortality rates.

However, due to its small size, brooding reproduction and fast growth rates46, Pocillopora dominated reefs can be characterised by multiple, tightly-aggregated colonies of similar sizes, offering little relief between them that might otherwise provide greater structural relief across all scales, but particularly at an inter-colony scale of approximately 8 32 cm.

Furthermore, if we did not find the allele conversion even at the million-colony scale, we would still not be able to distinguish between absence and low frequency of 6bpΔ mutL cells in these bacteria and, consequently, could not draw any conclusion regarding whether such a spontaneous genetic switch may exist in these bacterial populations.

The distribution of algal symbionts that were more susceptible to increased temperature stress explained not only the single colony-scale bleaching patterns observed in some corals [18], but also helped explain larger region-wide bleaching patterns.

Colony-scale effects will depend on both colony size and the proportion of breeding pairs affected by disturbance.

It is nevertheless clear that, because the number of soldiers in an aphid colony may scale more accurately with gall surface area than with the number of non-soldiers needing defence [ 10], gall structure can be of critical importance to the evolution of aphid life histories.

The decrease in colony aggregation with scale indicates fine-scale resource hotspots: colonies are locally aggregated in small groups.

When needed, these colonies are scaled up; a process that often takes months.

Here, the standard deviation serves as the quantitative metric of the colony roughness, whose scale is the size of one grid point (side length of 5 μm).