Sentence examples for gradient of diversity from inspiring English sources

The AR index revealed an expected gradient of diversity with higher diversity values in the young forest that potentially provides a higher number of microhabitats.

A new study of its distribution in North American soils shows a gradient of diversity that corresponds with latitude and points to the South and Wisconsin as distinctive hotspots.

Finally, Chapter 4 examined the relationship between multidimensional diversity and ecosystem function across a natural gradient of diversity, and found that taxonomic diversity and functional diversity were significantly and positively related to whole ecosystem productivity, and, conversely, functional evenness and dispersion were significantly and negatively related to ecosystem productivity.

Recently, a meta-analysis of worldwide goat microsatellite datasets highlighted a decreasing gradient of diversity from the domestication centre towards Europe and Asia, and a clear phylogeographic structure at both the continental and regional levels [ 12].

However, the genetic homogeneity is coupled with a gradient of diversity, from distinctly highest values in ASY, through much lower values in North China (N China) and SW Asia, to a minimum in Europe (Pang et al., 2009).

A striking feature of this organisation is the gradient of diversity in EXT composition from the rDNA unit to the coding core of the chromosomes (Fig.  1 and Additional file 1: Figure S6).

The diversity of animal and plant species on Earth is not uniformly distributed along latitudinal and altitudinal gradients [1], and geographical gradients of diversity have long fascinated biogeographers and ecologists [2], [3].

Though we did not find that genomic diversity changes across a precipitation gradient (and thus the genomic results provide no support for a gradient model of diversity), we found that the gradient model applies to resistance gene homolog diversity, indicating the importance of individual loci for adaptation to an environmental gradient.

Calculation of lake-specific input water isotope compositions (δI) and lake-specific evaporation-to-inflow (E/I) ratios based on an isotope-mass balance model reveal a narrow hydrological gradient regardless of diversity in regional landscape characteristics.

Finally, the observed gradient of genetic diversity in O. lesueurii throughout the study area (decreasing diversity with increasing latitude) may be the result of harsher historical conditions in the southern part of the range (Last Glacial Maximum; [ 23]).

The lack of any sharp gradient of genetic diversity between East Asian and African village dogs could mean that once domesticated, dogs spread very quickly from their point of origin.