Sentence examples for on functional traits from inspiring English sources
Living things, for instance, are represented primarily by visual traits due to their properties (e.g., visually distinct, non-manipulable) while non-living things are represented primarily based on functional traits due to their properties (e.g., highly manipulable).
To better understand the role of landscape complexity and farming systems in shaping plant assemblages, it is of interest to focus on functional traits rather than on floristic composition, which may help to highlight trends in vegetation patterns.
Selection index calculations including genomic and phenotypic observations as index sources were used to determine the optimal number of offspring per genotyped sire with a focus on functional traits and the design of cooperator herds, and to evaluate the importance of a central station test for genotyped bull dams.
The results of this study demonstrated that numerous seeds of farmland-derived alien species were transported into the remnant vegetation via wind dispersal, and that simple predictions of dispersal distance based on functional traits could underestimate the potential area that alien species can reach.
Information on functional traits was obtained from the literature and corroborated by experts.
Recently, there has been substantial emphasis on functional traits, particularly foliar traits, in the segregation of species across resource gradients [8] [12].
There is growing concern that biodiversity loss in European agricultural landscapes is having negative effects on functional trait diversity.
Land plant ecology on the basis of functional traits would thus suggest that plants adapt their biomechanical structure [19], [20]; this hypothesis was to be addressed in the current study with respect to the structure of cellulose.
A consistent observation in these surveys has been that farmers place priority on the genetic progress of functional traits, aiming at robust cows that are easy to handle.
The inclusion of functional traits in a total merit index has a positive effect on the annual monetary genetic gain.
Cross-validation of a model's predictive ability has already been applied on dairy cattle data, including for functional traits such as number of inseminations to conception [ 24], daughter longevity [ 25], and mastitis [ 26].
