The tendency of increasing resource conservation with increasing elevation in both evergreen and deciduous species in our study lends support to the argument that selection imposed by elevation on linked traits results in trait convergence along similar elevational gradients (Read et al. 2014).
Indeed there has been a suggestion that the better outcomes recorded for people with direct payments over managed budgets are due to the tendency of well supported and resourced people to opt for direct payments in the first place [ 20, 28].
The recent fall in commodity prices is a reminder of the need to move away from the tendency of some governments to treat resource price increases as permanent, while regarding declines as temporary.
Hannan and Freeman (1984) point out that structural inertia relates to the dynamics of political coalitions, the sunk costs of resource investments and the tendency of precedents to become normative standards.
It's a simple concept that explains the tendency of groups to deplete common resources.
For example, although the number of MS-relevant clinics per week correlates well with the total number of admissions as one would expect with the tendency of admissions to follow hospital resources (r = 0.69, p<0.01), these show a trend towards inverse correlation with MS indirect admissions rates, probably a better estimate of background disease prevalence (r = −0.52, p = 0.06) [17].
The tendency of females to select the closest resource is not a consequence of party size, meaning that it is not a response to possible feeding competition.
Psychologists claim that empathy is most commonly triggered by the "identifiable victim effect" - the tendency of people to care and expend resources when there is a specific identifiable victim as opposed to a larger vague group of unidentified victims.
Scientists think that the Flores people descended from taller human species but shrank as a result of "island dwarfism," the tendency of species trapped on islands with limited resources to evolve smaller stature, requiring less food.
This could potentially be explained by the tendency of wolves to explore together, whereas dogs rather tend to monopolize potential resources.
