Sentence examples for determinant of patterns from inspiring English sources
Although disturbances are known to be a determinant of patterns of biological diversity, disturbance and diversity principles have not been consistently applied in management of forest ecosystems in the Pacific Northwest.
Data on both upland and riparian forest cover from a survey of 300 rural properties indicated that 49.4% (SD = 29.0%) of the total forest cover was maintained as of 2007, and that property size is a key regional-scale determinant of patterns of deforestation and land-use change.
How animals balance the costs of inbreeding and inbreeding avoidance is important to understand as this can be a fundamental determinant of patterns of dispersal, reproductive skew and cooperative interactions [ 5].
We have analyzed genomic data from A. thaliana and A. lyrata in order to understand the genomic and selective determinants of patterns of sequence variation and evolution at a genome-wide scale in a pair of plant species.
Although different concentrations of Shh elicit different transcriptional responses, feedback and cross-regulatory interactions are key determinants of patterning.
In conclusion, we have shown that although mixing by age remains the most important determinant of contact patterns, other structures emerge in the analysis of contact data that subdivide the population into groups with different patterns of behaviour.
Land ownership is an important determinant of landscape patterns.
More generally, our results suggest that time costs may be an important determinant of exercise patterns and that factors that can influence the time costs of exercise, such as intensity, may be important concerns in designing interventions to promote exercise.
The Closer Economic Relations Agreement (a free-trade agreement) between New Zealand and Australia is a major determinant of trade patterns in the region.
Moreover, the moisture content of the soil is the main determinant of phenological patterns for different life-forms in tropical evergreen forests (Joshi and Janarthanam 2004).
Climatic conditions have been broadly proposed as a major determinant of diversity patterns through their control over the availability of water and energy [ 1].
