Sentence examples for major gradient from inspiring English sources

There are two major gradient spikes at about 970 and 1410 m (Fig. 2) that may indicate high permeability zones.

Within the framework of a project designed to set up a European Biodiversity Observation Network (EBONE), a standardized protocol for field survey was used in pilot sites located across a major gradient in Portugal and Spain.

There is a major gradient in burden of disease between Central and Eastern Europe compared to Western Europe.

PCA uncovered two major gradients of spatial heterogeneity from the 10 dimensions of our original lacunarity dataset.

We used an ordination method to recognize major gradients in the soil and we applied regression analyses to identify relationships between soil properties and AGB.

Overall, we find that a suite of commonly used landscape metrics typically applied to large landscape units provides a similar basis for the quantitative description of the major gradients of variation in land cover spatial patterns when applied to small landscape units.

These junctions lead to the formation of major gradients for inorganic and organic solutes between the brain and the blood plasma.

We applied simulated trampling, grazing, blowouts and N-deposition in a randomized design to ten sites along the major natural gradient in the area.

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.

Soussana et al. (2007) investigated the GHG budget of nine European grassland sites over 2 years, covering a major climatic gradient and a wide range of management regimes.

Rosa rubiginosa has successfully invaded a range of ecosystems within Argentina, covering a major climatic gradient, but exhibiting low levels of genetic diversity.