Sentence examples for driver of diversity from inspiring English sources
The relatively high diversity in the low heterogeneic bare basalt habitat suggests that habitat heterogeneity might not be the main driver of diversity in the AST.
We also demonstrated that two putative virulence determinants, glucosyltransferase B [gtfB] and surface protein antigen I/II [spaP], were the most diverse of the loci investigated here and that, unlike the house-keeping genes the recombination/mutation ratios were <1 indicating that mutation and not recombination was the driver of diversity in these genes.
Disturbance is an important process structuring ecosystems worldwide and has long been thought to be a significant driver of diversity and dynamics.
However, there is little change in the average CLASP values with different sample sizes, showing that cluster size is not a primary driver of diversity.
The presence and distribution of parasites and pathogens can potentially be a driver of diversity and distribution patterns from regional to global extents (Ricklefs, 2010 a, b ).
Despite depth often being the best predictor of diversity, and apparently contributing to an evolutionary biodiversity bottleneck, it is generally believed that depth is not itself a primary driver of diversity (Levin & Dayton, 2009).
Taylor, J. D. & Cunliffe, M. Multi-year assessment of coastal planktonic fungi reveals environmental drivers of diversity and abundance.
By allowing the importance of drivers of diversity to vary with grain in a single model, our approach unifies disparate results from previous studies regarding environmental versus biogeographic predictors of biodiversity, and enables efficient integration of heterogeneous data.
In the discussion, we consider principal drivers of diversity patterns and discuss functional roles of biodiversity.
Biologists are broadly interested in the drivers of diversity, ranging in scale from nucleotide sequences to the entire biome.
We review previous studies to discuss the environmental and ecological drivers of diversity for relatively well-studied, distinct habitats within the deep-sea portion of the Gulf of Maine.
