Sentence examples for fluctuating resources from inspiring English sources

Data gathered in the 1980s by McGovern and others suggested that the colonies were doomed by "fatal Norse conservatism in the face of fluctuating resources," as McGovern, now at Hunter College in New York City, wrote at the time.

The role of fluctuating resources on species co-existence and community dynamics was tested in a previous study [ 17] using the same microbial community as here.

Before the changes were made to the pathway for elective surgery, CRs were high and fluctuating, resources were not optimally used, patient information was unclear, and patients complained about the duration of time spent waiting for surgery outside the hospital.

Theories regarding fluctuating resources (Davis et al. 2000) and 'windows of invasion opportunity' (Drake et al. 2006; Caplat et al. 2010) suggest that seasonal phenology the timing of life history events may play a critical role in invasions (Wolkovich and Cleland 2011).

It enables fast-moving animals to exploit fluctuating resources and to settle in areas where life would not be tenable for animals incapable of rapid travel.

Higher plasticity in allocation traits can allow A. negundo individuals to rapidly benefit from changes in their environmental conditions (nutrient availability, light) thereby capitalising on the fluctuating resources of these specific riparian ecosystems to overgrow local species.

In an earlier study [ 17] with the same system, fluctuating resource supply and predation allowed different prey species to prevail under different fluctuation regimes through trade-offs between competitive ability and grazing resistance.

Combinations of sugars were presented either simultaneously or as temporally fluctuating resource regimes.

(3) Among-population genetic variation for fitness was highest, and most sustained over time, in those groups that had evolved under fluctuating resource regimes.

This might point towards fluctuating resource levels in the Late Pleistocene Crete, selecting for a growth pattern recalling that of the stem-cervid Procervulus.

(2000) proposed a general hypothesis of invasibility based on fluctuating resource availability with communities becoming more susceptible to biological invasion whenever there is an increase in the amount of available resources.