Sentence examples for productivity gradients from inspiring English sources

By observing a wide range of spectral trajectories, a more complete picture of change (i.e., defoliation, mortality and recovery regime) across different forest types is gained [62]. Saturation effects in high productivity forests with an abundant understorey may be limiting, and detectability along productivity gradients should be explored [62].

Macroecological and evolutionary research is developing into fields investigating ecological and evolutionary aspects of biomes, such as productivity gradients [ 21], extinction risk [ 22], and forest die-back due to climate change across biomes [ 24].

These factors include for example gene flow across a spatially structured landscape with productivity gradients [ 5- 8], the importance of migration of hosts from parasite-free demes [ 41], or the effect of dispersal from hot-spots to cold spots and vice versa on the speed of coevolution [ 10].

We sought evidences for trait convergence and divergence across a productivity gradient over 21 wet meadows in Železné hory Mts.

We also find that this, and the movement of nutrients among patches via dispersal, alters patterns of food web architecture, trophic structure and diversity along the productivity gradient.

The sites all are located in aspen (Populous tremuloides) forests of the Lake States region USA, and span a soil texture (silt loam, sand, and clay) and productivity gradient.

This study reconstructs structural and compositional change over 150 years across a productivity gradient that includes both mixed conifer and ponderosa pine forests within a 688,000 ha study area in the southern Blue Mountains of eastern Oregon.

Here, we illustrate the interaction of these two processes on community structure with a model of adaptive evolutionary dynamics of plant defenses in a metacommunity food web involving multiple patches along a productivity gradient.

Off Central Chile, amino acid concentrations and ratios were both maximal around 100 m depth, probably reflecting the interaction between the primary productivity gradient and the presence of an oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) reducing the degradation of sedimentary organics.

A historical landscape emerges which supports current working hypotheses that frequent, low- to moderate-severity wildfires maintained a predominantly low-density forest dominated by large, fire- and drought-tolerant ponderosa pines across a significant moisture and productivity gradient from the driest ponderosa pine to the mixed-conifer habitat types.

Diversity distribution in the Mediterranean is also associated with a productivity gradient.