environmental variability
Linking environmental variability to village scale malaria transmission using a simple immunity model
... between environmental variability ...hydrological variability, and climatic vari- ability) and malaria prevalence that maintains the spatial structure of human and mosquito populations and their ...
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A statistical mechanics description of environmental variability in metabolic networks
... role environmental variability plays in shaping their structural organi- ...with variability in bacterial habitats, supporting the view that environmental variability promotes ...
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Age and size at maturity: sex, environmental variability and developmental thresholds
... Environmental variability is a ubiquitous feature of bio- logical systems. Reaction norms describe the range of phenotypes expressed by a single genotype in response to these changes in the environment ...
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Pink landscapes: 1/f spectra of spatial environmental variability and bird community composition
... spatial environmental variability are predicted to have reddened spectra that reveal increases in variance with the period or length ...of variability that is characterized by scale ...Spatial ...
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When does environmental variability become environmental change? The proxy record of benthic foraminifera
... Until recently, it was commonly believed that the deep sea is a very stable environment with virtually no environmental variability. However, this is now known to be incorrect. Bottom photography has shown ...
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Effect of phytoplankton size diversity on primary productivity in the North Pacific : trait distributions under environmental variability
... We conducted idealised simulation experiments to compare our continuous size-based approach with the conventional approach of controlling the level of species richness, based on a simple phytoplankton-nutrient model that ...
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Environmental variability in the Gulf of Guinea large marine ecosystem: physical features, forcing and fisheries
... As well as showing natural environmental variability, fish catch data can also be used to show anthropogenic impacts on ecosystems. Pauly et al. (1998) took FAO landings statistics by area for the years ...
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Potential Effects of Disturbance Types and Environmental Variability on Sagebrush-Steppe Community Dynamics
... included variability in those probabilities based on the frequency of different types of fire years using 1980 to 2006 fire occurrence records for the Burns and Lakeview districts of the Bureau of Land Management ...
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Sensitivities and uncertainties of modeled ground temperatures in mountain environments
... considering environmental variability when an- alyzing model uncertainties is important to gain confidence in the conclusions made about the model and the modeled ...
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Environmental Disturbances Decrease the Variability of Microbial Populations within Periphyton
... the variability of populations within the ...experienced environmental variability through- out the duration of the experiment due to natural weather conditions and small-scale variability in ...
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Variability of Environmental Quality and Dynamics of Malaria in Sarmi District
... the variability of environmental quality and malaria dynamics in the Puskesmas Work Area Betaf East Coast District, Sarmi ...were environmental factors (temperature, humidity, water pH, the presence ...
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Geographic variation and adaptation in the Tasmanian metallic skink (Niveoscincus metallicus)
... measure variation in offspring and clutch characteristics on an annual and geographic basis in N metallicus and to evaluate the influence of environmental variability and genetic adaptat[r] ...
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Variability in at sea foraging behaviour of little penguins Eudyptula minor in response to fine scale environmental features
... use environmental features as foraging cues at meso-scales (100−1000 km); however, the role of environmental structure at finer scales (1−100 km) is less well ...fine-scale environmental ...
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The variability and seasonality of the environmental reservoir of Mycobacterium bovis shed by wild European badgers
... albumen (BSA), 12.5 μ l of Environmental Mastermix 2.0 (ABI), 10 μ l of template and made up to 25 μ l with molecular grade water (Sigma Aldrich). PCR cycling conditions were 50 °C for 2 min followed by 95 °C for ...
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Cross-sectional association between soda consumption and body mass index in a community-based sample of twins
... shared environmental factors have also been implicated in food preferences [17–19], including the con- sumption of sweet-tasting carbohydrate sources [20, ...
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Spatial Variability In Distribution Of Seagrasses Along The Tamilnadu Coast
... and Gulf of Mannar (GOM) as the luxuriant seagrass destinations. Distribution of seagrasses along Tamilnadu coast was studied in detail (Jagtap, 1991; Parthasarthy et al., 1991 and Rammamurthy et al., 1992). Later, few ...
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Modeling the environmental impact of demand variability upon supply chains in the beverage industry
... The objective of this research is to model the impact of demand variability on the emission of carbon dioxide in supply chains. A supply chain has many transportation modes, global locations, stakeholders, product ...
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Challenges using extrapolated family level macroinvertebrate metrics in moderately disturbed tropical streams:a case study from Belize
... because environmental characteristics that can be important drivers of assemblage composition and that may reflect natural heterogeneity, including substratum, flow dynamics and macrophyte abundance, varied as ...
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Expanding knowledge of the Rubisco kinetics variability in plant species: environmental and evolutionary trends
... of Rubisco kinetic constants to the prevailing environmental conditions (Bainbridge et al. 1995; Raven 2000). Previous assessments of evolutionary trends of Rubisco kinetics have been mostly based on the ...
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Impact of transportation lead-time variability on the economic and environmental performance of inventory systems
... of environmental damage in modern value added ...negative environmental impacts that frequently counteract the traditional efficiency-oriented ...and environmental performance can be improved at the ...
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