Sentence examples for ecological indices from inspiring English sources

Species-based ecological indices, such as Ellenberg indicators, reflect plant habitat preferences and can be used to describe local environment conditions.

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.

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.

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

Last, these landscape patterns have been translated into ecological indexes that assess the effect of the policy options on the multifunctionality of the local landscape.

This paper describes significance and necessity of PTVM hot-water boilers modernization and substitution by hot-water boilers with higher efficiency rates and improved ecological indexes.

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.