Sentence examples for primary environmental gradient from inspiring English sources

The prevalence of random distributions suggests many species are responding to a variety of environmental filters in these river-floodplain metacommunities in an anthropogenically-dominated landscape, whereas Gleasonian distributions indicate species are responding idiosyncratically to a primary environmental gradient.

Our analysis showed that altitude appears to be the primary environmental variable responsible for the distribution of forest plant species along environmental gradients.

Regarding functional aspects, elevation, as a broad-scale environmental gradient, showed a greater influence on dominant trait values, whereas at finer scales, grazing management had a primary effect on both dominant trait values and diversity measures.

Thus, distance independent passive transport seemed to be the primary process for gene-flow and/or colonisation of empty habitats along the Southwest-Northeast axis from virtually any part of the environmental gradient to any other.

The primary objective of this research was to examine how climate, topography, and dust interactively control the mineral and geochemical composition of granitic soils that span an environmental gradient in southern Arizona.

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

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.

James, L. C., Marzloff, M. P., Barrett, N., Friedman, A. & Johnson, C. R. Changes in deep reef benthic community composition across a latitudinal and environmental gradient in temperate Eastern Australia.

It's an enormous challenge for these ants to adapt to such a dramatic environmental gradient".

However, within any environmental gradient there is likely to be many local sources of spatially correlated environmental variability.

No values were assigned to plant taxa estimated to be indifferent for a given environmental gradient.