Sentence examples for the fluctuating resources from inspiring English sources

Higher plasticity in allocation traits can allow A. negundo individuals to rapidly benefit from changes in their environmental conditions (nutrient availability, light) thereby capitalising on the fluctuating resources of these specific riparian ecosystems to overgrow local species.

The Public Expenditure Review, carried out by the Planning Unit, provided evidence of the fluctuating resources for family planning, which was presented to the Minister and other senior policy-makers in the Ministry of Health to demonstrate that donor funds were unreliable and inadequate without national allocations (I13).

We only found evidence for highly significant divergence among the replicate populations that evolved in the fluctuating resource environments, glu/mal and glu/lac (Table 3).

Although the specific adaptations that occurred in the populations are not yet known, we can imagine a scenario where one might well expect greater among-population divergence under the fluctuating resource regimes.

Competitions lasted one day except for those performed in the fluctuating resource environments; those competitions ran for two days, such that competing strains were exposed to both sugars and both environmental transitions over the course of the assay, with the final density of each strain adjusted for the 100-fold dilution between the two days.

Data gathered in the 1980s by McGovern and others suggested that the colonies were doomed by "fatal Norse conservatism in the face of fluctuating resources," as McGovern, now at Hunter College in New York City, wrote at the time.

These trends, while certainly not definitive proof, are thus consistent with the hypothesis that the replicate populations in the temporally fluctuating resource environments were evolving toward distinct fitness peaks.

The role of fluctuating resources on species co-existence and community dynamics was tested in a previous study [ 17] using the same microbial community as here.

Before the changes were made to the pathway for elective surgery, CRs were high and fluctuating, resources were not optimally used, patient information was unclear, and patients complained about the duration of time spent waiting for surgery outside the hospital.

Theories regarding fluctuating resources (Davis et al. 2000) and 'windows of invasion opportunity' (Drake et al. 2006; Caplat et al. 2010) suggest that seasonal phenology the timing of life history events may play a critical role in invasions (Wolkovich and Cleland 2011).

In an earlier study [ 17] with the same system, fluctuating resource supply and predation allowed different prey species to prevail under different fluctuation regimes through trade-offs between competitive ability and grazing resistance.