The canyons' abutting opposite slopes are dramatically divergent ecologically due to microclimatic differences, despite the short distance, averaging 250 m in EC I at lower Nahal Oren, Mount Carmel.
This led to the creation of a new high-altitude niche, and the very different environments of the mountain's upper and lower slopes created strong divergent selection between the plants growing in the two habitats and they subsequently diverged, although gene flow persisted.
This result suggests that environmental variables are highly divergent between the eastern and western slopes of the Andes, making it unclear whether the differentiation between eastern and western populations is the result of isolation or of environmental differences.
The crests of the massif form an east west line with a series of distinct peaks along its irregular structure, which consists of parallel or divergent crest lines broken apart by steep and irregular slopes.
A flip of a coin sent the plot of Sisterly Feelings (1980) off on divergent paths each night, dominated by a steep grassy slope down which Simon Callow's unkempt poet hurtled on a bicycle.
"Evolution Canyon" (P3) consist of two opposite slopes: the warm-dry 'African Slope' is drastically divergent from the cool and humid 'European Slope', although they are separated by an average distance of only 200 meters.
The slopes of the two regression lines were significantly divergent (74.8 ± 5.8 vs. 168.4 ± 19.0; P < 0.0001) indicating the stimulation of neural elements with different membrane excitability.
The pairwise plots of intraspecific patristic distances of the body morphospace and the paramere shape vs. mitochondrial distances show no significant relationship, with slopes of the regression of shape distance vs. sequence divergent not different from zero [ 17].
Genetic diversity and divergence reveal evolutionary dynamics of natural populations exposed to sharp-interslope, ecologically divergent stresses, tropical and temperate microclimates on a xeric, tropical "African" (AS) south-facing slope (SFS) abutting with a mesic, temperate, "European" (ES) north-facing slope (NFS) separated by 200 m on average.
