Sentence examples for indirect abundance from inspiring English sources

Each year, approximately 140 days is allocated to field work that includes mark-recapture of dragons, ungulate distance sampling, dragon nest surveys, and indirect abundance surveys for prey.

These substantially higher estimates likely reflect the advantages of this approach over indirect abundance estimates, which can lack accuracy if little is known regarding habitat suitability and species distribution [ 22, 23].

While the direct effects of toxicants usually reduce organism abundance, indirect effects may lead to increased or decreased abundance.

With increasing concentrations the zooplankton community became simplified toward more robust rotifer species, which, as an indirect effect, increased their abundance due to a shift in competition and predation.

In addition, not all coral mortalities are caused by infectious agents, but rather by exposure to extreme conditions, such as pesticides or high nutrient levels [77] [78], which may result in indirect shifts in microbial abundance.

The transcript expression was employed as an indirect proxy of protein abundance.

In addition to these direct effects, the treatments had indirect effects on leafhopper abundance and species richness.

Temperature may play an indirect role in viral abundance, as high temperatures benefit bacteria growth resulting in a higher number of hosts for bacteriophages.

Variation can have direct or indirect effects on transcript abundance through a variety of mechanisms such as protein levels, RNA degradation rates, splicing, and so on.

Here, we used the transcript expression as an indirect proxy of protein abundance to estimate the predictive ability of the signature.

Moreover, down regulation of Dicer might have some indirect effect on the abundance of other RNAi factors for maintenance of homeostatic equilibrium.