Sentence examples for the local assemblage from inspiring English sources

This moth, therefore, is a commensal in some populations and a mutualist in others, depending on the local assemblage of pollinator species.

The factor "presence/absence" was not significant in this design, whereas the exposure was more indicative of differences in the local assemblage composition.

Resampling the local assemblage would result in a dilution effect in which the relative abundance of sparse species decreases as new samples are added, producing an excess of rare species.

MNTD is expected to increase in fragmented forests due to a reduction in species richness: as more species are excluded from the local assemblage, most remaining species will be distant relative of at least one of the already-sampled species [see 26].

Sufficient deaths followed by recruitment are made (normally 10,000) until local extinction and colonisation are at equilibrium and the mean species richness of the local assemblage does not vary systematically through time.

We calculated vectors representing the distance and direction of each specimen relative to the δN/δC centroid for its local assemblage, and then examined the evolutionary diversification of loricariids across assemblage isotope niche space by regressing the mean vector for each genus in each assemblage onto a phylogeny reconstructed from osteological characters.

The neighborhood mosaic is a local assemblage of landscape elements linked together by strong interaction.

Herein, we introduce a novel method that builds upon several recently proposed approaches for comparing community trophic structure using the isotopic centroid (the mean for all species in a local assemblage) as a reference point [ 23- 25].

We determined the conservation significance of an isolated limestone karst outcrop for insectivorous bats by quantifying the influence of this roosting resource on local assemblage structure across a fragmented landscape in peninsular Malaysia.

Instead of calculating only distances from the centroid to component taxa [ 23] or patterns of centroid movement through absolute isotope space [ 24, 25], we use vectors to describe both distance and position of consumer taxa relative to their local assemblage centroid, and use the centroid as a means of standardization that allows datasets from different times and places to be combined.

We conducted a 'natural experiment' in the second largest gas extraction field in the U.S. to investigate the potential effects of gas compressor station noise on the activity levels of the local bat assemblage.