Sentence examples for gradient of fish from inspiring English sources

Also, we predicted that the relative importance of both factors would change along a gradient of fish predation.

The endemic richness gradient of fish species was more pronounced with latitude, the north side exhibiting a greater richness, and the Adriatic appearing as a hot spot of endemism with 45 species per cell (Figure 2d).

Along the gradient of fish biomass in high resource enclosures, cladoceran abundance usually decreased at a lower rate at low fish biomass until reaching a threshold, when the rate of decrease increased (Fig. 2).

For example, Robbins et al. [14] utilized constant belt-transect surveys to compare relative abundance of Triaenodon obesus Rüppell (whitetip reef) and Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (grey reef) sharks along a gradient of fishing pressure.

We selected study sites based on the following criteria: (a) sites were chosen along a gradient of fishing pressure; (b) all sites were located in fore-reef habitats at 10 15 m depth; (c) all sites were known to have had abundant stands of A. cervicornis in the recent past; and (d) A. cervicornis was either rare or absent at each site during the study period.

The authors suggested the patterns may have been attributable to the types and area of available habitat, but also acknowledged that it is difficult to attribute mechanism to latitudinal gradients of fishes in the Caribbean given our current knowledge.

Fish-based bioassessment poses challenges in Southern New England, the USA, due to the effects of within-watershed thermal gradients on fish assemblage types, low regional species richness, and lack of minimally disturbed sites.

Garren, M., Smriga, S. & Azam, F. Gradients of coastal fish farm effluents and their effect on coral reef microbes.

This work also describes a gradient of lake and fish metal contamination that is related to the physical condition of yellow perch.

The linear dependence of swimming speed on tail beat frequency was first shown by Bainbridge (Bainbridge, 1958), who found that the gradient for three species of fish that swim primarily with the action of their tails (dace, trout and goldfish) was 0.75 BL/cycle.

The maërl bed showed an a priori stratified distribution with depth, which led to the selection of a stratified random sampling design that also took into account the gradient of influence by the fish cages.