Sentence examples for major environmental gradient from inspiring English sources

Soil catenas represent a major environmental gradient that shape vegetation structure (e.g. as reflected in changes in the distribution of tree height, basal diameter and crown diameter) and spatial patterns in savanna landscapes.

We selected elevation as our focal gradient because it is often correlated with other major environmental gradients that more proximately determine barriers to species distribution [ 29], and high-quality elevation data are available from multiple sources for the entire globe.

The effects of both of these features on benthic macroinvertebrates have been well studied, and major environmental gradients that shape biotic communities have been identified (e.g., stream order, pH, riparian vegetation) (Rosenberg and Resh 1989).

Two novel major environmental gradients along which the species segregate (i.e. distance from the coastline and altitude) have been identified, and their contribution quantitatively integrated in an SDM providing a global map of the predicted relative frequency of An. coluzzii and An.

The major environmental risk factor for all skin cancers is ultraviolet radiation (UVR) from sunlight; consequently, there is a distinct north south gradient in skin cancer risk [ 4].

Contrary to major gene pools, the diffuse genetic boundaries separating minor gene pools were not related to rainfall gradient, or any other obvious environmental gradient.

Lybrand, R. & Rasmussen, C. Linking soil element-mass-transfer to microscale mineral weathering across a semiarid environmental gradient.

Thus, these materials are a major environmental concern.

Acid sulfate (AS) soils constitute a major environmental issue.

This is causing major environmental degradation problems.

The most extensive natural grasslands can be thought of as intermediates in an environmental gradient, with forests at one end and deserts at the other.