Yet, comparing the phylogeographic patterns of species occurring over a latitudinal gradient is not straightforward, as other important factors such as life-history traits, ecological requirements, and dispersal ability will probably differ among species.
We propose that it is important to consider how the wide range of energy crops, with their specific traits and management requirements, may play a role when devising novel and more sustainable agricultural production systems.
Scores were derived from data on life history traits and ecological requirements of individual species, with respect to their sensitivity to changes in landscape and the composition and qualities of ecosystems.
Biogeographical patterns and range distributions are explained or predicted through knowledge of a species' traits and niche requirements.
In these environments, lizards can attain large body size and high body temperatures, both traits considered essential requirements for efficient digestion of plant matter [ 3, 88- 90].
Traits failing the requirements of normality in the Kolmogorov Smirnov test were transformed through a logarithmic transformation and retested for normalcy.
We believe that gene interaction networks will significantly reduce the candidate gene list underlying a bioenergy trait if the requirement is made that interacting genetic signal genomic positions (e.g. a QTL set, multiple LD blocks from a GWAS study, or genes mapped in mutant lines that result in the same phenotype) must overlap with tightly interacting genes from the network (e.g. [ 323]).
These correlations between BMR and physical environments in small mammals have been interpreted in a supply-demand adaptive framework, with low BMR in mammals from warm, arid environments viewed as an adaptive trait that minimizes energy requirements during unpredictable bottlenecks in food supply [8], [10].
In wheat, winter cultivars require vernalization to initiate flowering, making vernalization requirement a trait of key importance in wheat agronomy.
Different B. napus gene pools have undergone strict selection for flowering-related traits, including vernalisation requirement, winter survival and photoperiod-dependant flowering, and for essential seed quality traits (primarily low erucic acid and glucosinolate contents).
