Sentence examples for dominating species from inspiring English sources

In general, the three main changes in response to environmental stress of the marine communities consist in regression to dominance by opportunist species, reduction of the dominating species resulting in lower diversity (Pearson and Rosemberg 1978; Gray 1989).

Timdal +       * indicates dominating species.

This pattern can be explained by changes in environmental variables and the seasonal development of the dominating species.

Redox potential and pH data helped to infer possible dominating species and oxidation states of arsenic and chromium in solution.

Then, when real RAS wastewater was used, the Shannon index decreased in both reactors and the bio-diversities were decreased, which could be explained by the higher abundance of dominating species.

When lighter elements are incorporated into the multilayer at a lower bias voltage (UB=−75 V) pronounced {111} or {110}, textures develop which are determined by the dominating species present.

Leymus chinensis, a perennial grass, is the dominate species in the salinized Songnen grassland in Northeastern China Li and Zheng (1997).

The stress-gradient hypothesis (SGH) states facilitation to dominate species interactions under high stress levels (as e.g. strong resource limitation) whereas competition is claimed to prevail in the absence of limitation (Callaway and Walker 1997; Holmgren et al. 1997).

Compared to the standard EDC, the results of the new EDC approach reveal noticeable improvement in the predictions, especially for slow-forming and kinetically dominated species such as CO and NOx.

These occasional or rare species are thought to dominate species sample data from systems around the world [10], and their presence in samples could distort indices of uniqueness.

Although many of these species will be in lower frequency compared to the dominate species of the system, the accumulation of the lower frequency species can quickly result in a dominant functional influence.