Sentence examples for indicator of biotic from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, few studies have addressed the dynamic changes in the proteome of the plant root apoplast in response to oxidative stress, especially to H2O2, which serves as a physiological indicator of biotic and abiotic stress intensity.

The study of diversity and abundance among species has been commonly used as an indicator of biotic integrity in different types of ecosystems [ 34, 35].

Interestingly, we observed that the young leaves developed under N limitation presents a purple color, which likely corresponds to anthocyanin accumulation, a common indicator of biotic and abiotic stresses.

At the community level, we used [ 34]'s related index as an indicator of functional biotic homogenization, the decline in functional diversity that results from the replacement of specialists by generalists.

We evaluated coastal and palustrine wetlands by surveying biological, water quality, and landscape indicators within a sample of 17 wetlands in the AOC and 10 reference wetlands outside the AOC to establish georeferenced indices of biotic integrity and water quality.

Several indices of biotic integrity (IBIs) have been developed to measure quantitatively the biotic composition and, hence, the integrity.

Indicators may do this by either measuring those processes directly (such as primary productivity) or inferring process from pattern (such as indices of biotic integrity (IBIs) as descriptors of community structure).

An index of biotic integrity (IBI) is a frequently used approach for assessing the ecological integrity of streams with fish and macroinvertebrates the faunal assemblages most commonly used as indicator taxa.

Common elements were a focus on methodology development rather than answering questions of specific clients, limited attention for model evaluation and impact analysis, and an imbalanced attention for economic and abiotic environmental indicators at the expense of biotic, landscape and social indicators.

In addition to the enhanced response to biotic stresses, also various indicators of abiotic stresses were induced (total of 41 detections), although not as strongly as those for the biotic stresses.

This synoptic review has the intention to summarise and highlight results in respect to the area "biodiversity and habitat" considering the current "state of the art" with regard the development of biotic indicator approaches that refer to the fauna of agro-ecosystems.