Sentence examples for estimates of competition from inspiring English sources

This competition extends to browsing and mixed-feeding herbivores, suggesting that estimates of competition based on dietary overlap may underestimate its strength; even partial overlap on minority components of the diet may be important (limiting).

Studies quantifying competition effects on tree growth usually measure subject trees and their competitors at a single point in time only, resulting in static estimates of competition indices for only single points in time (Burton, 1993).

Column 3 includes estimates of competition where we fix the nlhhi in time as the average of the 2002 5 nlhhis, which uses pre-reform patient flows from a time period where patients had no choice over their provider (hence the patient flows are likely unrelated to quality).

The crude estimates of the competition parameter φ ^ were 0.80 and 1.14 based on the Portuguese and Finnish datasets, respectively.

However, for coverage levels within this range, the estimates of the competition and mixing parameters were not sensitive to the assumed vaccination coverage.

To test this prediction, we fit separate linear regressions of the quadratic selection differentials onto two estimates of intraspecific competition: (1) conspecific density, and (2) per capita resource density.

However, using the estimate of the competition parameter derived from the US post-vaccination experience, an infant vaccination programme would prevent 39,000 IPD cases in the 20 years after PCV7 introduction in the UK.

The present study was developed based on two linear mixed models: a non-genetic model, which accounts for spatial autocorrelation and is used to estimate the effects of competition between neighboring trees into the single clone plots; and a genetic model to infer the nature of the clonal competition.

To estimate the degree of competition from hybrid GFP and SN 2108 to pollinate MS TN 90 plants in the field experiments, pollen tube growth was measured.

According to one estimate, injecting this kind of competition into the employer-based system would save people and businesses more than $360 billion over 10 years.

In 2012 the OECD estimated that the dearth of competition in telecoms cost the country's economy $25 billion a year, because of high prices for broadband and calls from fixed lines to mobile phones.