Sentence examples for decreased allocation from inspiring English sources

No evolution of increased competitive ability or decreased allocation to defense in an invasive plant since release from natural enemies.

These increases corresponded to decreased allocation to the leaves.

Increased extrinsic mortality should select for decreased allocation to growth and for increased reproductive effort.

For the "xeric" ecotype, the favorable influence of the plasticity of fine root growth on stem growth results from increased allocation of biomass to foliage and decreased allocation to fine roots.

Decreased allocation to roots is often associated with decreasing irradiance (Popma and Bongers 1988; Bongers and Popma 1990), and so the lower survival of heteroblastic plants in the shade could be associated with this greater root allocation since it is a respiratory cost (see Veneklaas and Poorter 1998).

The effects of nitrogen deposition on seed production were similar within functional groups: C4 grasses tended to increase while C3 grasses tended to decrease allocation to seed production.

In the benchmark IEEE 14-bus power system described above, we thereby predicted that decreasing allocation will bring generators 1, 2, and 3 more profit when the current equilibrium price is lower than 2.72, 3, and 3.21, respectively.

If individuals did plastically respond to local risk, we would predict that, within a species, individuals would decrease allocation to growth at sites with higher extrinsic mortality.

In a speech before the Legislature today, he outlined the basic contours of his plan, which also involves reducing by 10percentthehe money the county pays most of its contract agencies, and slightly decreasing allocations for anti-tobacco education and advertising, which the county health department had hoped to expand.

The reason is that although the greedy algorithm can react to a poor channel by allocating fewer resources, it does not consider future rates and thus may not decrease allocations enough.

In addition to N, soluble carbon transfer from canopy to roots is also related to root lifespan [14], [15], such that decreased C allocation to roots reduces root lifespan [6].