Sentence examples for continuum of interactions from inspiring English sources
Even highly mutually beneficial microbial-plant interactions, such as mycorrhizal- and rhizobial-plant exchanges, involve selfishness, cheating and power-struggles between the partners, which depending on prevailing selective pressures, lead to a continuum of interactions from antagonistic to mutualistic.
Consequently, microbial-plant interactions, like any other biological interspecific interaction [1], [2], [8] [12], involve selfishness, cheating and power-struggles between the partners, thus forming a continuum of interactions from antagonistic to mutualistic [4], with an occasional breakdown in mutualism [12].
When the stress and the benefits from positive interactions decrease, competition becomes more dominant; hence, facilitation and competition lie along a continuum of interactions (Bronstein, 1994; Stachowizc, 2001).
Within a continuum of interactions and trust-building, these sharing meetings enabled the health managers, providers, users and NGOs to discuss the problems related to provision of maternal health services without expressing mutual antagonism.
From a knowledge sharing perspective, Nissen et al. (2014) acknowledge co-operation and collaboration as occurring on a continuum of interaction and distinguish between the two forms of interaction by stressing on the existence of relatively stronger linkages and high level of trust and knowledge sharing between collaborating partners.
Therefore, there is an environment-mediated continuum of interaction types that may range from negative to positive outcomes in the epichloae grass complex (Clay and Schardl 2002; Saikkonen et al. 2004; Rudgers et al. 2009).
The solar wind interaction with the ionosphere and magnetosphere of the planetary bodies is unique in many respect but also exhibits a continuum of possible interactions.
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.03229.003 Necromeny occupies a midpoint in the continuum of nematode insect interactions that span from mutualism to pathogenicity.
These studies suggest that time since divergence might have strongly contributed to the continuum of genetic interactions observed in the ring species, but the contribution of ecological factors promoting local adaptation in Ensatina remains to be evaluated.
An early attempt to account for the continuum of genetic interaction strengths specifically addressed data from synthetic genetic arrays and E-MAPs.
