Sentence examples for is adaptive as a from inspiring English sources

It acts on receptors in the brain, in a way that is adaptive as a response to acute stress, but might become maladaptive when stress is chronic [ 32].

For instance, females of the gregarious parasitoid wasp Goniozus nephantidis Muesebeck (Bethylidae) lay smaller clutches (which produce larger females) when competition over hosts is high; this is adaptive as a size advantage allows daughters to guard hosts aggressively (Goubault, Mack & Hardy, 2007).

This is adaptive, as long as it lasts for a split second.

"Our enemies are adaptive and we have to be adaptive as well," Kelly said Wednesday.

Our results strongly support the hypothesis that multiple mating is adaptive, as manifested in an increase in female fecundity.

The second general mechanism is adaptive evolution as species invade a new ecological niche.

The sampling process is adaptive, using the sample variance as a criterion for whether to sample further.

This may be adaptive in an unpredictable environment such as Licosa Island.

In a similar vein, whether states such as dormancy are adaptive is a matter for experiment.

The tolerance controlling the splitting process may itself be adaptive, so that as an object moves farther away the tolerance is automatically increased.

Arrowsmith is joining Adaptive as a Board Observer, the company says.