Sentence examples for ecologic link from inspiring English sources

The absence of AIVs in uropygial glands of wild birds suggests the external origin of AIVs detected on the ducks' surface and supports our hypothesis that preened bodies are an ecologic link between aquatic birds and the environmental persistence of AIVs.

For instance, an ecologic study linked penicillin-nonsusceptibility in Streptococcus pneumoniae with β-lactam and macrolide use in 12 European countries (7 ).

Weaving anecdote with theory, Walters draws from his diverse backgrounds in veterinary medicine and journalism to link ecologic tampering to some of the most featured if not feared diseases of our time.

Most studies have been ecologic in design, linking incidence or mortality rates to drinking-water nitrate levels at the town or county level.

The stool and water isolates were collected from the same geographic area and during the same period, which should have increased the odds of finding genetically similar isolates if the two ecologic sources are linked.

The evidence from animal studies clearly identifies DON as a potent toxin, albeit with varying susceptibility among species (Pestka and Smolinski 2005); ecologic data from China and India suggest a link between exposure and some human poisoning outbreaks, but the dose response relationships are inconclusive (Bhat et al. 1989; Luo 1994).

Although Barker's original ecologic epidemiologic findings also showed a link between low birth weight and adult respiratory health, this was not accorded the same importance because geographic areas that had higher incidence of low birth weight and neonatal mortality were also regions with more postnatal risk factors (e.g., infection) for adult respiratory diseases.

Since >90% of cases reported infection through insect bites or animal contact, this seasonal shift may be linked to climatic or ecologic factors in a particular year.

For example, as reviewed previously (Miller and Hemenway 1999;2012; Brent 2001) ecologic studies in the U.S. have linked variation in suicide rates with the distribution of household firearm ownership.

However, linking socio-economic and ecologic models, and tracking the time-dependent distribution and configuration of material and energy flows across the entire city are imperatively needed in urban metabolism model development.

In the present ecologic study I investigated the possible links between environmental exposures to chlorophenoxy herbicides and mortality during 1979 1988 and 1989 1998 from IHD and type 2 diabetes.