environmental heterogeneity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofenvironmentalandheterogeneity
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environmental
adjective
uk/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.təl/us/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.t̬əl/
relating to ...
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heterogeneity
noun[U]
uk/ˌhet.ər.ə.dʒəˈneɪ.ə.ti/us/ˌhet̬.ə.roʊ.dʒəˈneɪ.ə.t̬i/
the fact of consisting of parts or things that are very different from ...
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We find that the key variables promoting diversity are market isolation,environmentalheterogeneity, and generational effects.
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In this empirical literature, there are indications (but little conclusive evidence) of an association between the temporalenvironmentalheterogeneityand the amount of genetic variation.
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Polymorphism fromenvironmentalheterogeneity: models are only robust if the heterozygote is close in fitness to the favoured homozygote in each environment.
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Firstly, we have concentrated exclusively on the role of spatialenvironmentalheterogeneityin defining plant niches.
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Tank positions were systematically rotated at each round of selection to minimize the effects ofenvironmentalheterogeneity.
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Coping withenvironmentalheterogeneity: the physiological ecology of tree seedling regeneration across the gap-undercanopy continuum.
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To evaluate theenvironmentalheterogeneityhypothesis, information is needed on whether antagonistic pleiotropy is a common source of crossing of reaction norms for fitness.
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Environmentalheterogeneityis an oft-cited hypothesis for the maintenance of genetic variation in fitness traits.
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Given thatenvironmentalheterogeneityhas some spatial structure this will contribute to the spatial trend and estimates.
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Seedling scaleenvironmentalheterogeneityinfluences individual fitness and population structure.
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These patterns could not be explained byenvironmentalheterogeneityand are highly suggestive of recruitment limitation due to spatially restricted dispersal.
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Theenvironmentalheterogeneityhypothesis also has implications for the evolution of mate choice.
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Thus, this combination of between-group cultural, organizational, political, economic andenvironmentalheterogeneitywould easily account for this study's findings.
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The value of the residual was often large, probably as an effect ofenvironmentalheterogeneityin the test sites.
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This pattern could result fromenvironmentalheterogeneityin the secondary forest (contrary to the fourth prediction), or dispersal limitations.
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The relative influence of forest fragmentation, spatialenvironmentalheterogeneity, and purely spatial variation upon species composition of the termite assemblage was investigated 4 y after the original inundation events.
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Seedlings and juveniles should cluster around adults, which themselves should also have a clumped distribution, and these clumped patterns should be at least partly unrelated toenvironmentalheterogeneity.
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This rainforest ant does not modify its home range areas in response to poor environments, and as a result, small-scaleenvironmentalheterogeneitystrongly determines growth and reproduction.
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