latitudinal gradient
Structure of benthic communities along the Taiwan latitudinal gradient
... This latitudinal gradient in diversity became less evident when the ‘OTUs’ contribution to the overall community was taken into consideration. Regional groups clearly overlapped in the multivariate pattern, ...
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Evolutionary and Ecological Drivers of Plant Flavonoids Across A Large Latitudinal Gradient
... broad latitudinal gradient, we tested a hypothesis of a positive latitudinal gradient in flavonoid concentration and assessed other factors that influence flavonoid production including ...
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Clinal Variation in phyB2, a Candidate Gene for Day-Length-Induced Growth Cessation and Bud Set, Across a Latitudinal Gradient in European Aspen (Populus tremula)
... The initiation of growth cessation and dormancy represents a critical ecological and evolutionary trade- off between survival and growth in most forest trees. The most important environmental cue regulating the ...
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Chill coma temperatures appear similar along a latitudinal gradient, in contrast to divergent chill coma recovery times, in two widespread ant species
... of latitudinal variation in the cold knock- down and recovery emphasize their independence from each ...the latitudinal gradient inversely corresponded to the pattern found in the dynamics of ...
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Impact of snow deposition on major and trace element concentrations and elementary fluxes in surface waters of the Western Siberian Lowland across a 1700 km latitudinal gradient
... Although the use of average crust for assessment of ele- ment enrichment in snow particles is justified by long-range transfer of snow components, it has been known since the works of the Reimann and de Caritat groups in ...
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Inferred calcification rate of a Mediterranean azooxanthellate coral is uncoupled with sea surface temperature along an 8° latitudinal gradient
... on latitudinal variations of calcification are not necessarily the same as those derived from time-based ...a latitudinal gradient, such as in Porites [3], it may be nega- tively correlated with the ...
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Geographic variation in thermal physiological performance of the intertidal crab Petrolisthes violaceus along a latitudinal gradient
... Here, we investigated the geographic variation in thermal sensitivity and thermal tolerance of physiological traits in seven populations of the intertidal crab Petrolisthes violaceus Guerin 1831, spanning a ...
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Tree diversity patterns along the latitudinal gradient in the northwestern Russia
... ecosystem engineers (Jones et al. 1994; Jones et al. 1997). There is evidence of a positive relationship between the tree species diversity and ecosystem functioning (Gamfeldt et al. 2013). Recent studies have shown that ...
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A new Himalayan ice core CH4 record: possible hints at the preindustrial latitudinal gradient
... high areas in central Asia, the Alps, Caucasus, Alaska, the Andes) are necessary for investigating latitudinal gradients and obtaining robust features. It is becoming an urgent need, as alpine glaciers are warming ...
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What drives the latitudinal gradient in open ocean surface dissolved inorganic carbon concentration?
... nDIC gradient in the North Atlantic, whereas it cannot in the other two regions (second and third columns in Table ...to latitudinal gradients, while also showing that latitudinal gradients occur in ...
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Changes in deep reef benthic community composition across a latitudinal and environmental gradient in temperate Eastern Australia
... a latitudinal gradient (27− 43° S) and identify any region-specific invertebrates; (2) to investigate the relationships between benthic invertebrate community composi- tion and long- term environmental ...
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Latitudinal trends in shell production cost from the tropics to the poles
... along latitudinal gradients from large proportions in the tropics to small proportions in polar ...that latitudinal differences in shell production costs explain these trends — remains ...68°S ...
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Flax latitudinal adaptation at LuTFL1 altered architecture and promoted fiber production
... There are multiple alleles in both LuTFL1 and LuTFL2 that are shared by pale and cultivated flaxes. Such a pattern could be a result of multiple alleles being included during domestication or through post-domestication ...
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The weighted gradient: A color image gradient applied to morphological segmentation
... weighted gradient operator was introduced in ...each gradient: the weights assigned to each gradient in the linear combination step had been imposed ...
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The gradient of a graph
... the gradient function of f(x)=tanx gives an interesting graph shape (figure ...the gradient graph is roughly the shape that might occur if the gradient of tanx were squared, except that it passes ...
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Latitudinal Analysis of Rainfall Intensity and Mean Annual Precipitation in Chile
... Análisis latitudinal de la intensidad de lluvias y precipitación media anual en Chile. El estudio y análisis de las precipitaciones se ha convertido en una herramienta vital para conocer el comportamiento temporal ...
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Latitudinal and longitudinal displacement of cusp ion precipitation controlled by IMF By and Bz
... Our data set consists of measurements taken in the years 1989–1993 with the low energy charged particle detectors (LEP) and the electric field detectors (EFD) onboard Ake- bono. The time resolution of these data is 8 sec ...
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Variation in the ontogeny of sex steroid levels between latitudinal populations of the medaka
... In this study, we examine the ontogenetic changes in the levels of the sex steroids testosterone (T), estradiol- 17β (E2), and 11-ketotestosterone (11-KT) in two latitudinal populations of the medaka. Fish used in ...
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The role of spatial scale and background climate in the latitudinal temperature response to deforestation
... the latitudinal temperature response to deforestation is either directly due to these changes or to the processes that translate these changes in the surface climate ...
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Latitudinal Variations of Life History Traits in Indian Populations of D. Melanogaster
... the latitudinal axis of Indian subcontinent (Prakash, ...of latitudinal clines is a strong argument in favour of the adaptive significance of genetic variations since environmental parameters vary regularly ...
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