Sentence examples for environmental filter from inspiring English sources

We found that Aquashade® acted as an environmental filter by increasing local species diversity and decreasing compositional turnover.

2, 3, 4 S explicitly states that natural selection is a passive process, and explains that an environmental filter discriminates between individuals with and without a trait.

Here, we investigated how fungal community assembly is impacted by species sorting across a strong environmental filter in the same geographic space.

We interpret these relationships as a hint that the flooding regime and associated soil anoxia acted as an environmental filter selecting for more flood-tolerant tree species with higher wood density close to the river.

First, niche breadth decreases as intraspecific trait variation decreases, as the strength of the environmental filter increases, and if the trait values do not enhance fitness in any environmental condition in the landscape.

Urbanization acts as an environmental filter for bird and butterfly communities selecting species able to colonize and settle in the city centre on the basis of their biological traits.

The environmental filtering hypothesis of community assembly predicts gradual successional changes in functional trait composition.

The three environmental filters affected earthworm communities of arable fields and field margins differently.

Community theories suggest that community structuring depends on dispersal limitation, environmental filtering and biotic interactions.

Functional clustering, potentially due to environmental filters depending on resource availability, was caused by anthropogenic and natural drivers.

Stand maturity, related to deadwood resources, induced a strong environmental filtering on both species and functional trait composition.