environmental variable
collocation in Englishmeaningsofenvironmentalandvariable
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environmental
adjective
uk/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.təl/us/ɪnˌvaɪ.rənˈmen.t̬əl/
relating to ...
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variable
noun[C]
uk/ˈveə.ri.ə.bəl/us/ˈver.i.ə.bəl/
a number, amount, or situation that ...
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These values need not be related to any measuredenvironmentalvariable.
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Using eitherenvironmentalvariableseparately does not necessarily provide a clear view of the potential genetic differences in body size.
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A genotype's response to a continuousenvironmentalvariableis described by its reaction norm.
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Imagine that we clone an individual and allow the clones to develop in a set of environments that differ with respect to theenvironmentalvariable.
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Oneenvironmentalvariablebetween early morning and afternoon that was consistent during the season was air temperature.
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Consider how a trait (such as metabolic rate) is expressed as a function of a continuousenvironmentalvariable(such as temperature).
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This will often be the case when theenvironmentalvariabledepends on the climate or another uncontrolled factor.
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Surprisingly, it is probably the onlyenvironmentalvariablewithin the range of variation usual in our culture about which that can be said.
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Here a genotype's response to theenvironmentalvariableis described by a function known as the reaction norm.
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Marginal eigenvalues are the same as conditional ones but without anyenvironmentalvariabletreated as a covariable.
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The first variable selected is the variable with the highest marginal eigenvalue (fit when entered as the onlyenvironmentalvariablein the analysis).
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The magnitude of the effects varied according to species and theenvironmentalvariableconsidered.
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By placing the old-forest variable in theenvironmentalvariableset, we emphasized the latter mechanism.
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The singleenvironmentalvariablethat best describes the crab community structure is topographical height, and for the gastropod community structure it is redox potential of water at depth.
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In this model, latent genetic and environmental variables are defined that account for all the variance in the first phenotype.
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Another set of latent genetic and environmental variables are defined to be specific for the second phenotype.
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Rather, there should be the possibility to take into account the environmental variables in deciding to trust another agent.
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Over the years different instruments have been developed for sampling the most important environmental variables (salinity, density and temperature) but each has its own limitations.
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Conditional eigenvalues are those due to individual environmental variables, the total fit being the percentage of the overall eigenvalue due to the environmental variables.
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This process is inherently complicated, but can be illustrated by a landscape of phenotype formed by genetic and environmental variables.
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