Sentence examples for ecological agents from inspiring English sources
The model simulates a virtual diverse agro-ecosystem with four ecological agents.
Some bacteria can cause diseases in humans, animals, or plants, but most are harmless and are beneficial ecological agents whose metabolic activities sustain higher life-forms.
Manipulative experiments and comparative studies are required to identify the ecological agents causing the relationship between phenotype and fitness.
In forest ecosystems, earthworms and wildfire are two ecological agents that cause carbon (C) stored in the forest floor to be transferred to the atmosphere as greenhouse gases, either through heterotrophic respiration (earthworms) or through periodical combustion (wildfire).
Similar taxonomies can be used differently: undergraduates use taxonomy as a "stand-in for ideas about the likely distribution of biologically related properties," whereas "for the Itza' (and other knowledgeable groups), the taxonomy may constrain the likely operational range of ecological agents and causes" (p. 114).
Therefore, the two selected lactobacilli strains showed probiotic potential for producing microbial ecological agents and functional foods.
We also evaluated the relationship between the strength of disruptive selection and the intensity of intraspecific competition—an ecological agent hypothesized to be an important driver of disruptive selection.
Micro-ecological agents such as B. subtilis spores and PSB improve water quality and provide a simple ecological technique for the "water fowl-fish" integrative production system.
These data also reveal the potential biotechnological applications of the PLTS as tool for "targeted protein translocation" in eukaryotic cells and an ecological biocontrol agent for targeted insect control.
Westing theorized that it would take centuries to undo the ecological damage the Agent Orange inflicted on Vietnam.
In the ecological context, the agent-based approach was utilized to simulate sea-lice (Lepeophtheirus salmonis) infestation patterns on a representative Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar L) population [ 99].
