Sentence examples for foreign habitats from inspiring English sources
While inbred and outbred plants had significantly lower fitness in foreign habitats, inbreeding depression was of similar magnitude at native sites and foreign habitats.
However, the overall magnitude of inbreeding depression was similar at native sites and foreign habitats.
More dispersal will occur into foreign sites of the native habitat than to foreign habitats.
Hereford tested how natural environmental stress from transplanting into foreign habitats influences inbreeding depression.
It is possible that inbreeding depression would have been greater in foreign habitats had the outcross progeny had a near-zero inbreeding coefficient.
I compared the fruit production of selfed and outcrossed plants grown in their native planting sites, foreign sites of the native habitat type, and foreign habitats.
But just as invasives are not the only threat to biodiversity, the threat to biodiversity is not the only problem caused by the havoc – ecological as well as economic – wreaked by species that are transported to a foreign habitat, get a foothold there and spread, often voraciously.
Table 1 summarizes this classification, as illustrated in Fig. 2. Non-invasive alien species are typically rare in their introduced ranges, preventing any reliable assessment of foreign habitat affinity for these taxa.
The effect of planting treatment measures differences in fruit number resulting from being planted in alternate environments (native site, foreign site of the native habitat, and foreign habitat).
Ideally, full reciprocals should be carried out; if local individuals have higher fitness than foreigners in the home habitat of the local population and individuals perform better in their home habitat than in a foreign habitat, LA is strongly implicated.
Outcrossing is especially favoured if the new site is a foreign habitat because selfing would incur inbreeding depression and outcrossing with natives could result in heterosis (Hereford 2009 b ; Fig. 1).
