Sentence examples for fluctuations in resources from inspiring English sources

In many cases, environmental variability stabilises coexistence as a consequence of differential, species-specific responses to fluctuations in resources and opportunities for recruitment (e.g. [6], [10]).

One limitation of the Markov chain approach is that many species in the data set breed in tropical regions, where seasonal fluctuations in resources are generally not as pronounced as in temperate/polar regions.

Efficiency also requires avoiding large fluctuations in resource utilization, the bane of new-product development in general and early pharmaceutical development in particular.

Models tailored to incorporate organism-specific temporal scales are important when modelling species which respond to fluctuations in resource availability following short-term weather events.

This suggests that older food-processing bees have a higher plasticity when responding to fluctuations in resource information than younger hive bees.

A number of factors could potentially have confounded the brain-migration relationship, including the degree of seasonality in the environment, the extent to which the habitat buffers individuals from climatic conditions, the temporal fluctuations in resource availability and intrinsic features of the species related to energetic demands, developmental periods and social behavior [2].

Such fluctuations in resource availability have been reported to promote the invasibility of exotic invasive species (Davis and Pelsor 2001; Li and Stevens 2012; Mata et al. 2013).

Recent experiments with P. fluorescens-Φ2 manipulated the frequency of fluctuations in resource supply by propagating populations in environments that alternated between high and low resource supply at different rates.

This occurred because selective sweeps of bacterial resistance mutations, which were only ever observed under high resource supply, required c. 25 bacterial generations to occur and were therefore impeded by rapid fluctuations in resource supply (Harrison et al., 2013).

This study extends previous work on the effects of environmental heterogeneity [ 13- 15, 19, 26, 28, 29, 61] by focusing specifically on the effect of temporal fluctuations in resource availability on population divergence.

For example, Einarsson and others (2002) saw that fluctuations in resource availability and inter-specific competition led to multi-year cycles in the abundance and body size of emerging chironomids in an Icelandic lake, although the authors observed that the fluctuations were ultimately driven by climatic cycles.