Sentence examples for priority effect from inspiring English sources

The first priority effect was that of the background color on the leading display.

The results revealed a significant priority effect on performance in the A B A C and the 0 B 0–C position-learning conditions but not in the 0-star 0-star position-only condition.

Moreover, if the fungi establish before the larvae they appear to become competitively superior over the insects (priority effect).

However, this priority effect varied significantly across sites, ranging from 60 to 90%% increases in cover (Table  4, site × priority interaction, P < 0.0001).

Competition can manifest either nonspatially as a fitness reduction for species with similar niches or as a lottery-style competition for a spatial resource akin to a spatial priority effect.

These two different forms of competition differ in their assumptions: niche monopolization depends on the similarity of resident and invader traits, whereas a spatial priority effect only requires the occupation of space.

Biotic heterogeneity can lead to alternative stable landscapes or regional priority effects, while abiotic heterogeneity results in regional determinism.

Many models of local species interactions predict the occurrence of priority effects due to alternative stable equilibria (ASE).

This paper reports two experiments conducted to examine priority effects and sex differences in object location memory.

Adaptation following colonization can produce a strong positive feedback loop that promotes priority effects and context-dependent trajectories of population or species assembly.

We establish how monopolization, and more generally evolution-mediated priority effects, influence ecological patterns at multiple scales of space, time, and biological organization.