Sentence examples for indicator of the environment from inspiring English sources

"People are realizing more than ever that loons are a good indicator of the environment," said David Evers, executive director of the BioDiversity Research Institute, a group in Maine that studies loons.

Variations in the annual radial growth of fossil trees (a palaeoclimatic indicator of the environment) that grew in the Gobi Desert (Mongolia) about 100 150 million years ago are considered.

This is where herbarium data from habitat specialist species could help, given that plants act as indicators of the environment as a whole.

This study was designed to determine the ratios of the isoprenoids and n-alkanes in an imported crude oil sample (Bassrah from Iraq) and four crude oil samples (Bodo, Bonny-Export, Escravos and Penningston) from the Niger Delta region of Nigeria to ascertain the levels of maturity and as an indicator of the depositional environment of the crudes.

So the factor variable 'distance to factories', could be taken as a composite indicator of the peripheral environment.

Parental BMI might be an indicator of the family environment, favouring or not obesity development, beyond of a genetic exposure.

It has been described as a more sensitive indicator of the childhood environment than overall height [ 43, 44].

Furthermore, studies of associations between perinatal status and later mental disorders have been criticized for relying too much on birth weight as the indicator of the foetal environment [ 4] and this may contribute to the heterogeneous results, in addition to different lengths of follow-up.

For example, engineered cell types may sense a particular environment and express gene products that serve as an indicator of that environment or affect a change in that environment.

Moore, Vandivere, and Redd [ 17] argue for the value of assessing cumulative sociodemographic risk as it can serve as a summary indicator of the multifaceted environments in which children develop.

Therefore, we suggest that obtaining indicators of the unique environment, such as measures of the built environment, is a productive avenue for future work.