Sentence examples for competitive hierarchy from inspiring English sources

The performance of plant species differed depending on their position in the competitive hierarchy.

The Blue Jays, who last won a division title in 1993, appear to be trying to shake up the tight, competitive hierarchy of the American League East.

The corner office was a marker of achievement, a physical symbol of your status at the very top of a competitive hierarchy that you'd spent years working to climb.

A second major shift to lodgepole pine forest began at ~ 8400 cal yr BP at Marsh Lake Bog and could have been a direct response of the dominant species to warmer conditions and/or the result of subtle changes in the competitive hierarchy of tree species near a sensitive ecotone.

In the Tilman-May-Nowak ordinary differential equation model, the number of species is asymptotically C log N with most species packed in at the upper end of the competitive hierarchy.

The exponent 5 makes the local competitive hierarchy relatively steep.

Competitive hierarchies were established by averaging over the ability of species to competitively suppress the other four species.

Nash Suding, K. & Goldberg, D. Do disturbances alter competitive hierarchies?

These results agree well with the establishment of strong competitive hierarchies among annual species.

However, perturbations, recruitment limitation and other causes may prevent competitive hierarchies from actually operating in natural conditions: the process of competitive exclusion underlying hierarchies could not be a determinant factor structuring communities.

Specifically, since Mediterranean annuals are known to form strong competitive hierarchies, we expected to find a nested pattern of beta diversity due to sequential species loss.