Sentence examples for ecological index from inspiring English sources

After practical test and application, the system was used as the official ecological index calculation system in Chinese forestry.

Habitat fragmentation in meadows of Posidonia oceanica, the most important and abundant seagrass in the Mediterranean Sea, was investigated at a region-wide spatial scale using a synthetic ecological index, the Patchiness Index (PI).

In this study we propose an ecological index of ecosystem or habitat diversity in agricultural landscapes – the Satoyama Index (SI) – that is discernible under appropriate spatial units (e.g., 6 km × 6 km) from 1 km × 1 km gridded land-cover data available from an open-access web site.

The overall potential ecological index and potential ecological risk from the single metals ((E_{f}^{i})) results are shown in Table 8.

Moreover, our models included patients' socioeconomic status assessed by a European ecological index of social deprivation used as a proxy of the individual status.

The inclusion of space-time data analysis tools as the PTA and the use of classical ecological indices (Pianka) in soil ecology studies may improve our knowledge of earthworm assemblages' dynamics.

Rather, local bird ecological indices should be explored, otherwise, erroneous predictions of the anthropogenic impacts will continue to be common.

Results showed that ecological indices can vary at different spatial scales, with important variation at small scales.

Previous studies have been mainly focused on taxonomic and ecological indices, such as species richness, individual abundances or Shannon-Weaver index.

Soil depth had significant effects on the abundance of soil nematodes, but only on two nematode ecological indices (λ and MI).

Many ecological indices convert raw estimates of a variable into a score, and combine scores for multiple variables into a total score.