Sentence examples for main environmental gradient from inspiring English sources

Litter characteristics were the main environmental gradient according to PCA, but were only relevant to discriminate between two communities at intermediate altitude.

Although the rectangular shape captured a significant larger number of species than squared ones, plot orientation along the main environmental gradient did not show a systematic effect on the number of recorded species.

Moreover, we evaluated the effect of plot orientation along the main environmental gradient, to examine how the selection of plot orientation (when elongated plots are used) influences the number of species collected.

At a detailed scale, floristic, vegetational and structural aspects of the dune plant communities are analyzed along the main environmental gradient by measuring: spatial connectivity and richness of boundaries, species diversity, eveness and chorological index.

The main environmental gradient (Axis 1) was strongly positively determined by temperature and dissolved oxygen and the fauna strongly associated with these parameters were represented by most fish species taken from Site 1 such as Hemichromis fasciatus, Synodontis eupterus, Clarias gariepinus, etc., (Fig. 3; Table 3).

The CHI maps fine-scale hotspots for 12 habitat types that are further classified according to positions along main environmental gradients (productivity and humidity).

For instance, Choler et al. (2001) found that the strength of interactions of particular alpine plant species with their neighbours generally depended on the species' position along the main environmental gradients.

For these reasons, the ENFA transforms the original set of EGVs into the same number of new, uncorrelated (orthogonal) axes summarizing the response of the species to the main environmental gradients characterizing the study area [ 46].

As is typical for most brackish water systems, the number of marine phytobenthic species decreases with the salinity gradient, as salinity is the main environmental factor controlling the wide-scale distribution of species on the Baltic Sea, while exposure, substratum type, and light availability determine the structure of vegetation communities on the local scale.

Elevation, slope gradient, profile curvature, topographic wetness index, and land-use variables are the main environmental indicators that should be included when generating PWP maps of regions with a dry, continental climate.

Redundancy analysis extracted a main axis explaining 67% of the variation of the microbiological soil properties, which was interpreted as an environmental gradient of soil fertility.