Sentence examples for transect studies from inspiring English sources

Whereas we studied the effect of episodic drought so far, ongoing water retention experiments and transect studies along gradients of water availability might reveal whether more frequent drought events and continuous drought stress may result in stand dynamics as known from permanently dry and continental areas of, e.g., central Spain, southwest USA, and inner South Africa.

Vaccination cards were used as marks; then during transect studies 1 year after the vaccination, the vaccination status of randomly selected persons was recorded.

The dog demography study was carried out as part of a wider study on dog vaccination strategies, and exploited the opportunity of a two-day central point (CP) vaccination campaign and a 14-day house-to-house (HH) follow-up vaccination campaign to mark dogs for subsequent mark-recapture transect studies.

A transect study was carried out in 1996, 1997 and 1998 on tilled, sandy to loamy soils in the morainal landscape of northeast Germany.

This was complemented by controlled fumigations with NO, NO2 and their mixture, as well as a transect study away from a busy inner London road.

In the transect study, the amount of total and EDTA-extractable heavy metals in soil generally decreased when increasing the distance from the heaps, but still remained high in agricultural soil sampled 10 m from the foot of the heaps.

Passive sampler concentration measurements of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and ammonia (NH3) were performed in the framework of a transect study to investigate the impact of vehicle emissions on ecosystems dissected by highways.

This research further determined the change in SOC in an original subalpine forest soil with vegetation succession after wildfire using a transect study.

A global transect study by Makarieva et al. (2009) also found that precipitation increased inland for several thousand kilometres in forested regions such as the Amazon and Congo River basins whereas precipitation declined exponentially with distance from the ocean in non-forested regions.

The achievable vaccination coverage was assessed by a two-stage vaccination campaign, and the proportion of feral dogs was estimated by a mark-recapture transect study.

The collars served to differentiate vaccinated from unvaccinated dogs during the transect study and were fitted with reflective material for improved visibility at night.