Sentence examples for the potential for adaptation from inspiring English sources

Specifically, when populations adapt from standing genetic variation only, the potential for adaptation increases as the environment changes faster.

Potentially, such indices could be used to test the potential for adaptation to further stress but this would need further studies.

Although our analysis offers insights on the potential for adaptation, we do not know whether Chinook salmon have actually adapted to the thermal changes caused by dams.

Csaszar, N. B. M. et al. Estimating the potential for adaptation of corals to climate warming.

Now that Rosen is on his way to becoming a perennial Christmas favourite, I ask which of his numerous other works have the potential for adaptation.

Csaszar, N. B. M., Ralph, P. J., Frankham, R., Berkelmans, R. & van Oppen, M. J. H. Estimating the potential for adaptation of corals to climate warming.

The potential for local adaptation to potentially occur was estimated to be feasible with weaker selection for the large mainstem and headwater populations than for tributary populations.

Ghalambor, C. K., McKay, J. K., Carroll, S. P. & Reznick, D. N. Adaptive versus non-adaptive phenotypic plasticity and the potential for contemporary adaptation in new environments.

The problem is that past adaptive divergence among populations need not indicate the potential for future adaptation, especially at the rates required by climate change.

In this way, the mutation itself may be random, but it affects a nonrandom combination of traits, increasing the potential for complex adaptation.

Figure 2 shows that changing the variance in immigration rates, keeping the mean constant, can substantially change the potential for local adaptation.