Sentence examples for competition indices from inspiring English sources

Under such circumstances conventional competition indices would at least temporarily misjudge the competitive status, growth, and mortality.

The response patterns to different competition indices that focus on crowding and overtopping are varied and tree diameter dependent, indicating that oversimplified assumptions are not warranted in the interpretation of CI- growth relations.

These can be adapted for single trees using additional tree covariates like competition indices (Pretzsch 2009).

Numerous competition indices have been used in analysing forests with mapped trees.

Are there species-specific differences in the correlation of diameter increment with distance-dependent competition indices?

The latter was estimated using a variety of neighborhood competition indices (NCI).

Raw material restrictions can be quantitatively identified, even at such an early stage of materials research, from eleven long-term indicators including our new developed Sector Competition Index.

Preliminary individual-based modelling using a modified Hegyi competition index offered a solution and an equation that indicates acacias have positive ecological interactions (facilitation or competitive reduction) and definitely do not cause competition like a eucalypt.

The Relative Competition Index (RCI) values in the I system were lower than 0, indicating that cauliflower growth was not interfered in the I system.

Similarly, in the in vivo competition experiment in mice which did not receive fosfomycin treatment, the competition index between the wild type strain and glpT-deficient mutant, was 0.78, indicating no fitness advantage in any strain (p = 0.22).

The Brookings report, called the Education Choice and Competition Index, awarded no A's or F's: the nation's 25 largest districts earned 6 B's, 18 C's and 1 D. "Nobody was close to perfection," Dr. Whitehurst explained, "and no district was terrible in everything".