The phrase 'prevailing characteristics of' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to the more commonly occurring features of a particular group or type of things. For example, you might write, "The prevailing characteristics of modern art are bold colors, abstract shapes, and minimalism."
In this paper the initial draft design of a payment for ecosystem services (PES) scheme in a municipality within the sugarcane belt of São Paulo state, Brazil (PES-RC), is compared with prevailing characteristics of successful PES cases in Latin America (PES-LA).
Wheatley [Price (2001]) notes that country of origin variables may also capture variations in the quality of schooling, the transferability of skills between national labor markets, average English language ability, and systematic differences in unobserved ability, determined before migration by the prevailing characteristics of the origin country.
One of the prevailing characteristics of the global economy today is chronic volatility and the uncertainty that comes with it.
A determining factor for enterprise development in these societies depends on the prevailing characteristics of the community.
The inability to take the time to observe and take note when obstacles arise, difficulties in trusting others, perfectionism and possessing unrealistic expectations or harboring an illusion of control, when we truly have none -- these are all prevailing characteristics of the "control freak".
Indeed, the prevailing characteristic of those who would vote to remain in the EU despite the meagre gains from the negotiations is a lack of confidence in an independent Britain.
Like genes and diseases, the prevailing characteristic of memes is that they tend to replicate, just add humans.
One prevailing characteristic of autism is that it is a disorder associated with atypical brain connectivity affecting distributed neural systems (Belmonte et al., 2004; Just et al., 2004; Courchesne and Pierce, 2005; Minshew and Williams, 2007).
It is important to investigate whether or not limited intra-regional agricultural trade is an inevitable consequence of the prevailing economic characteristics of countries in the region and whether greater gains can be reaped from other forms of integration based on more conducive economic policies and enabling trade environments.
So, too, a City whose prevailing characteristic is the embodiment of their manager's relentlessness.
The modular nature of our toolkit allows our methodology to be readily adapted to the prevailing eco-epidemiological characteristics of a given project setting.
