environmental gradient
collocation in Englishmeaningsofenvironmentalandgradient
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environmental
adjective
uk/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.təl/us/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.t̬əl/
relating to ...
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gradient
noun[C]
uk/ˈɡreɪ.di.ənt/us/ˈɡreɪ.di.ənt/
how steep a ...
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(Definition ofenvironmentalandgradientfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Our results show that environmental gradients influence cyanobacterial community structures.
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Moreover, these studies should try to maximize the number of environmental gradients and the number of species studied.
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In most cases these environmental gradients have been studied at the landscape level, using areas in different topographic locations.
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Theory suggests that community composition is influenced by environmental gradients or biotic processes.
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Three factors that potentially have an important influence on ant community structure co-vary along theenvironmentalgradientstudied: rainfall, temperature and vegetation structure.
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The response curve of a quantitative trait to anenvironmentalgradientis called the reaction norm.
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However, more commonly, anenvironmentalgradientproducing an ecotone supports an intergradation of communities that form a continuum of floristic change.
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Provided that accumulated change is large enough along altitude, latitude, or otherenvironmentalgradient, it may lead to the change of the species seed bank type itself.
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Coincident with this extreme topographic gradient is a similarly steepenvironmentalgradient.
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However, -diversity is accurately reflected in the pollen rain when the diversity is an expression of strong environmental gradients.
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Attempts to compare the distributions of a group of species along various environmental gradients can result in an excessive number of comparisons being made.
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Overall, the evidence suggests that the five species selected for detailed pairwise comparisons showed a high level of differentiation along the environmental gradients we investigated.
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Thus, correlates of reproductive type and various environmental gradients may be due to selection on ploidy level.
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By contrast, there has been little research examining how adult tree performance varies across environmental gradients.
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Differentiation between species with respect to their distribution along these soil environmental gradients was detected by comparing the distributions of species along each gradient.
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The characterization of species niches by determining their distributions along environmental gradients falls short of achieving this.
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Moreover, purely spatial or environmental gradients may be confounded with fragmentation gradients, in which case their effects need to be factored out.
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It is likely that important environmental gradients correlated with distance from the stream margin are associated with hydrology.
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