Sentence examples for natural range of variation from inspiring English sources

However the Marine Stewardship Council, a London-based charity that certifies the fishery as sustainable through an independent auditor, said this was within the natural range of variation for the species, and that a recovery is expected this year.

Multiple fossils from different individuals can give paleontologists an understanding of the natural range of variation encompassed by a species, and therefore help them make assessments about which fossil specimens should be grouped together into the same species.

Climate data indicated that warming and drying occurred during the last century, but that this pattern was within the natural range of variation for the study region over the past 800 years, as determined from tree ring data.

In forest conservation and restoration, simple conceptual models of forest dynamics based on outdated information can lead to biased definitions of natural reference conditions (natural range of variation), which are crucial in setting goals and choosing management methods (Landres et al. 1999; Halme et al. 2013).

Foundational principles for biodiversity conservation are that i) viable populations of native species are maintained; ii) ecological and evolutionary processes are sustained; iii) conservation networks are resilient to environmental change; and iv) ecosystems are represented across their natural range of variation (Noss and Cooperrider 1994).

Recent declines in the amount of habitat suitable for early successional wildlife in the northeastern US have prompted public land managers to consider establishing minimum levels of young forest, based on the natural range of variation, in order to maintain viable populations of these species.

In short, the variations caused by transgenesis were smaller than that of MAB breeding and were within the natural range of variations.

Natural selection has tailored the developmental characteristics of animals to the natural ranges of variation of their environments, so that human restriction of those environments tends to restrict the range of variety within species dependent on them.

The resulting equilibrium curve is presented as a function of the natural range of morphological variation of this beach.

Here, MH86 played the role of a"control", when compared with D62B, to reveal the natural range of transcriptome variation between the two natural rice plants.

However, when we examined this coloration with a model incorporating the assumed visual capabilities of the house finch, we found that our some of experimental males (orange and yellow) fell outside of the natural range of color variation.