| This is distinct from the notion of selection deriving from pressures exerted by the biotic and abiotic environment inhabited by the organism. |
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| Manipulative experiments have provided some key insights into the abiotic and biotic forces influencing community structure. |
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| Adequate measures were taken to protect the plants from biotic and abiotic stresses that may influence lignin biosynthesis. |
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| For insects on plants, demes may evolve in response to local abiotic features, rather than to the natal host plant. |
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| Terminal heat stress is a common abiotic factor responsible for reducing yields in certain areas of West Asia and North Africa. |
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| Numerous interacting abiotic and biotic factors have profound effects on nest sites and incubating females. |
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| Recurrent natural disturbances and abiotic stress factors are integral components of many terrestrial plant communities. |
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| These references are listed by category, e.g., limnological methods, abiotic frame, food web interactions. |
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| There is no reason to declare that Mars has been abiotic throughout its history. |
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| The difficulty of diagnosis is increased by the fact that the abiotic factor responsible for the disease may not be present in the plant sample. |
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| Development of models of intraspecific body size variation incorporating abiotic and biotic factors would be useful. |
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| It has been assumed that the formation of these sinters and their associated metalliferous sulphides is due to abiotic processes. |
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| Ecosystems are functional units of interacting abiotic, biotic, and cultural components. |
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| As you know, the planet was originally considered to be abiotic, by some people. |
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| The first important abiotic factor affecting potato productivity is drought and it has a large influence on productivity. |
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| Every species has an optimum range, zones of stress, and limits of tolerance with respect to every abiotic factor. |
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| Furthermore, different guilds within the herbivore trophic level may be influenced differently by N addition, predators, and abiotic conditions. |
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| Reactive oxygen species are generated under various biotic and abiotic stresses, and trigger cell death. |
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| Most biotic and abiotic stresses elicit an increase in cytosolic free calcium concentrations. |
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| Our results show how biotic and abiotic effects operate synergistically to determine the distribution of these species. |
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| Perturbations of photosynthetic metabolism can be induced by many biotic and abiotic factors. |
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| Water is obviously a crucial and highly variable abiotic factor for every living organism. |
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| In addition, there is growing recognition of abiotic organic synthesis in various geological materials. |
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| If abiotic and biotic stresses inhibit proper root function, plants run into nutrient deficiencies. |
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| Seasonal mammals may be absent from the far north because of purely abiotic limitations or because of competitive exclusion by continuous species. |
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| Differences in abiotic factors such as differential effects of glaciation and sea-level changes on land and in the sea may also greatly influence biogeographic patterns. |
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| This emphasizes isoform-specific functions in relation to tissue water permeation or growth as well as differential responses to varying extents of the same abiotic stressor. |
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| Some ecologists have focused on the importance of natural population regulation by biotic factors, while others have emphasized the importance of abiotic factors. |
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| Salinity, temperature, and dissolved oxygen strata were measured in each basin of each lake, again to compare abiotic limnology across lakes and over time at Ogac Lake. |
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| He emphasized the difference between abiotic and biotic evaluations and that expert judgement can lead to acceptable evaluation of impacts. |
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| Environmental characteristics describe the abiotic and biotic features of a facility's site and surrounding environment. |
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| Natural disturbances of biotic and abiotic origin can also maintain suprabenthic communities in equilibrium. |
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| Further, both biotope and biocenosis were respectively considered as abiotic and biotic parts of an ecosystem. |
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| Moreover, this water, recharged with terrigenous nutrients, finds its way back to the sea where it feeds complex biotic and abiotic processes. |
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| It is converted among its various forms through a range of abiotic and biogeochemical transformations and during atmospheric transportation. |
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| Alpha-HCH is, in principle, degradable in environmental compartments by abiotic processes such as photodegradation or hydrolysis. |
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| The condition of an abiotic, or non-living component of the environment, such as water quality, can also serve as an indicator. |
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| The third section will focus on monitoring data on PeCB in abiotic and biotic media of temperate zones, as well as observed trends. |
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| They also produce yields as much as 10 per cent higher than the best local hybrid maize varieties and are more tolerant of biotic and abiotic stresses. |
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| In 2013 and so far in 2014, a further five abiotic gas seeps have been reported in Portugal, Greece, Italy, Japan and another in Turkey. |
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| Six more, from Europe to North and Central America to the South Pacific, are currently being analysed for suspected abiotic origins. |
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| This Theme will contribute to a better understanding of water as both an abiotic resource and as a service delivered by ecosystems. |
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| The first three themes of this framework attempt to classify the abiotic characteristics of rivers. |
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| Therefore a better understanding of water as both an abiotic resource and a service delivered by ecosystems is needed. |
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| An ecosystem includes both living organisms and their abiotic environment, including pools of organic and inorganic materials. |
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| Too much or too little of any abiotic factor can limit or prevent growth of a population, even if all other factors are at or near the optimal range of tolerance. |
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| The relevant environmental noise to be taken into account is not a single abiotic factor, but rather the combined effect of all abiotic and biotic factors that affect birth and death rates. |
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| Living organisms function in the context of the abiotic and biotic worlds. |
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| In addition to abiotic factors, Weakley and Bucher suggest that predation by webworms is a major source of mortality and lowered fecundity for Amaranthus pumilus. |
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| In addition to their role in plant defence, both genes are involved in the plant response to the environment and their expression is regulated by biotic and abiotic agents. |
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| The ultimate expression of the code is dependent on the specific biotic and abiotic environment in which cells and organs find themselves as they develop and grow. |
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| The focus of the meeting was to examine crosstalk induced by both biotic and abiotic stresses, and in response to essential natural environmental variables such as light. |
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| There is little evidence of equilibrium in many natural systems, the environment is always changing and abiotic and biotic evolution is part of that change. |
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| Dr Etiope has received research funding from Petrobras, Brazil's state-owned oil giant, to formulate an estimate for the worldwide abiotic methane reserve. |
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| To quantify the effects of water level variations on the river system, the Canadian Meteorological Centre is modelling major abiotic variables such as water depth, currents and waves. |
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| In the case of protected areas, gap analysis requires the use of information on biotic and abiotic factors, and is thus a rather involved procedure. |
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| Potential interactions with the abiotic environment. |
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| It is not that the world is springing an abiotic methane leak, however. |
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| For reasons of scale and resolution, the endpoints for environmental objectives are generally defined for the abiotic components of the ecosystem. |
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| Given the importance of environmental factors on transmission, it remains essential that researchers studying avian hematozoa document abiotic factors such as temperature, moisture and landscape elements. |
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| The effects of SA on plant resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses were found contradictionary, and the actual role of SA remains unresolved. |
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| With the possible exception of Mars, it is believed to have come from abiotic processes. |
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| These platforms are characterised by abiotic precipitation and biotically induced precipitation. |
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| The nitrogen cycle is an attempt to describe the natural cycling of nitrogen from the atmosphere through incorporation into living organisms and from them back into the abiotic environment through degradative processes. |
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| In particular, four Citrus x Poncirus intergeneric combinations were carried out to combine the disease tolerance of Poncirus with the abiotic stress tolerance of Citrus. |
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| To understand the mechanism of tolerance to deferent stresses in tea plant, a new glutathione peroxidase gene of tea plant was cloned and its expression pattern was analyzed under abiotic and biotic stresses. |
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| Breeding between inbreeds with different characteristics targeting tolerance of biotic and abiotic stress has been identified as an alternative for improving rubber tree growth and production. |
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| Transition from tubular to cisternal architecture of the ER has been reported in response to various abiotic and biotic stresses and presumingly reflects modification in ER functions. |
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| The ecosystems themselves are not independent of one another as energy, biotic and abiotic factors can move from one ecosystem to another to involve even larger relationships. |
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| Although computer ecosystem modelling is a highly powerful tool, it cannot predict everything and our knowledge of the links between abiotic and biotic components is still incomplete. |
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| Disturbances may be generated by abiotic, or nonliving, forces such as weather and wildfires, or they may occur as a result of biotic, or living, forces such as disease and invasions of exotic species. |
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| It's abiotic, so we have no problems with diseases or viruses and whatnot, so, it was in our best interest to start at a smaller stage than we had originally thought we would when we started here about some 18 months ago. |
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| Adherence of this organism to abiotic surfaces such as medical implants and catheters represents a major risk for hospitalized patients. |
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| An agrosystem consists of plant roots, the soil microflora, the soil fauna and the abiotic geochemical soil matrix. |
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| Effect of abiotic environment on the distribution of attached and loose-lying red alga Furcellaria lumbricalis in the Estonian coastal sea. |
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| Daily fish and zooplankton abundances in the littoral zone of Lake Texoma, Oklahoma-Texas, in relation to abiotic variables. |
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| The role of biotic and abiotic factors in evolution of ant dispersal in the milkwort family. |
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| In fact, the water cycle cannot really be likened to an ecosystem service because the ecological processes underway are essentially abiotic and man has no direct hold on them. |
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| Determine the critical physical and chemical oceanographic influences on sponge reef development, and determine the mechanisms of sponge reef growth, both biotic and abiotic. |
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| Improving plant productivity, including the ability to cope with abiotic stresses such as drought and nitrogen limitations, is a target for the new collaborative program. |
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| The environment of a genome includes the molecular biology in the cell, other cells, other individuals, populations, species, as well as the abiotic environment. |
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| The book opens by introducing the Lovelock Gaia hypothesis and motivating glacier science as a major abiotic component of the homeostatic planetary system. |
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| The question also remains of where the bacterium survives in interepizootic periods, which may itself be controlled by abiotic environmental conditions. |
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