Numerous interacting abiotic and biotic factors have profound effects on nest sites and incubating females. |
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One notable consequence for biology was a thoroughgoing re-evaluation of experimental work on prebiotic and biotic evolution. |
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Species vary in their biotic potential or capacity for population growth under ideal conditions. |
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And how have we put our particular gifts to use in our biotic community here on planet Earth? |
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The biotic potential of a population is the ability of that population to grow under optimal environmental conditions. |
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During naturalization, the introduced species and biotic components of the habitat begin adapting to each other. |
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Aquatic ecologists have emphasized the role of biotic interactions on body size distributions. |
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His study of the deep environmental history of the continent is complemented by his study of the physiology of biotic communities. |
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Certain types of ecosystems and biotic communities, such as tropical rain forests and wetlands, might completely disappear. |
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Signals about the impact of a biotic factor on plants are interrelated with those induced by the impact of metal ions. |
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The organism or biotic factor is essentially vegetation and is the summation of the plant matter reaching the soil. |
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As most insects eat living organisms, food is probably the most obvious and important biotic factor. |
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Manipulative experiments have provided some key insights into the abiotic and biotic forces influencing community structure. |
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A biome is a biotic area with homogeneous features, characterized by distinctive plants, animal species and climate. |
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Finally, lawn chemical companies build on and reinforce the sense of lawn management as a bridge to the biotic, nonhuman, natural world. |
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Was survival of the various clades through various biotic crises just a matter of luck? |
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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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The latter depends critically on the time lag between environmental change and biotic responses to that environmental change. |
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Development of models of intraspecific body size variation incorporating abiotic and biotic factors would be useful. |
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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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If abiotic and biotic stresses inhibit proper root function, plants run into nutrient deficiencies. |
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Perturbations of photosynthetic metabolism can be induced by many biotic and abiotic factors. |
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Reactive oxygen species are generated under various biotic and abiotic stresses, and trigger cell death. |
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Ecosystems are functional units of interacting abiotic, biotic, and cultural components. |
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The effectiveness of exclusion through pore size is relatively easy to demonstrate for biotic pollinators by direct observation. |
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These sites included several freshwater mussel shell middens that contained a number of well-dated artifactual and biotic assemblages. |
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The approach is from the community level, highlighting physical and biotic interactions at varying spatial scales. |
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This is consistent with certain biotic associations in modern colonial corals. |
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The biotic diversity of the grasslands has historically supported a diverse assemblage of species. |
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Most biotic and abiotic stresses elicit an increase in cytosolic free calcium concentrations. |
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Each event includes one or more datum points when extinctions and other biotic changes took place. |
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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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Populations of species with large individuals, such as elephants, have a low biotic potential while those of small individuals, such as bacteria and insects, have a high biotic potential. |
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Environmental characteristics describe the abiotic and biotic features of a facility's site and surrounding environment. |
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But management is negative if it contributes directly or indirectly to biotic impoverishment. |
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Most biotic agents require a portal of entry through the intact skin or mucosal linings of the body. |
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The weak host is prey to many forms of biotic infection, even those of low virulence and invasiveness. |
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The biotic potential of the food plants in these areas can also be important. |
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However, the three biotic themes each have only two sub-themes and there is considerable variation in the number of elements in their sub-themes. |
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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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An assessment of the water quality and a comparison of the biotic indices in the Douro basin were published. |
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Nature conservation and the protection of species are also necessary in order to safeguard genetic and biotic resources. |
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A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. |
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An estimate of the costs of conducting work to determine biotic responses to emission decreases and chemical recovery is available. |
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Natural disturbances of biotic and abiotic origin can also maintain suprabenthic communities in equilibrium. |
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Presently, three biotic agents have become destructive pests on multiflora rose and show potential to provide eventual significant biological control. |
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The paleoenvironment under which Burmese amber was produced was perhaps the warmest tropical climate of any Cretaceous amber forest, with a rich biotic diversity. |
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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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I'd like to think that the tenets of deep ecology are part of human consciousness by dint of the fact that we evolved, co-evolved with entire biotic communities. |
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In general, biotic potential remains constant, and it shifts in environmental resistance that allow populations to increase or cause them to decrease. |
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Factors that affect biotic potential include the age at which reproduction begins, how long individuals remain reproductive, and how much offspring are produced by each reproductive event. |
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Restoration of the stabilising biotic potential would mean relaxation of anthropogenic pressure on perturbed territories and complete abandonment of further cultivation of the natural biota. |
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From this and experimental evidence of the parasites' biotic potential and immunogenicity to the hosts the potential susceptibility to control measures can be determined. |
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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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A biotic factor is any living component that affects another organism, including animals that consume the organism in question, and the living food that the organism consumes. |
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The biotic factor is now considered to encompass the effects of all groups of the biota that impinge on soils either by living within them, on their surfaces or contributing organic matter to them. |
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Living organisms function in the context of the abiotic and biotic worlds. |
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These improvised sacred symbols place the trees and the entire local biotic community at the center of the sacral yearning that has brought us here. |
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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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Lakes are important to human habitation as they address certain hydrological factors, provide a biotic environment, and are useful temperature comforts. |
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In a biotic environment, current reproduction will affect future population sizes, but these future changes may also affect the optimality of current reproductive decisions. |
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In prior studies, we have argued that changes in sediment surface chemistry driven by biotic and physical disturbance affect recruitment decisions of infauna. |
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As in the case of the processes affecting the availability of nitrogen, those involved in the phosphorus cycle are critical for the biotic communities. |
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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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An ecosystem is a group formed by a natural or artificial environment, a biotope, and the living organisms that live there, the biotic community. |
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Typically, the postglacial biotic migrations were much greater than just the distances landward from synglacial positions of the strandline directly offshore. |
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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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Several perennial grasses, including big bluestem, little bluestem, smooth brome, sheep's fescue and especially blue grama grass, have even lower biotic potentials than oat. |
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The Asian biotic reorganization events are comparable to the Grande Coupure in Europe and the Mongolian Remodeling of mammalian communities. |
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Environment, the complex of physical, chemical, and biotic factors that act upon an organism or an ecological community and ultimately determine its form and survival. |
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The role of biotic and abiotic factors in evolution of ant dispersal in the milkwort family. |
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Infestation of middle Devonian camerate crinoids by platyceratid gastropods and its implications for the nature of their biotic interaction. |
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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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The WFD requires ecological quality assessment of running waters based on various biotic, chemical, and hydromorphological elements. |
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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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Because species embody genetic diversity and their populations are the biotic components of ecosystems, they are bound to play an important role in the Convention's implementation. |
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The ecotoxicity of aqueous effluents and biotic indicators concerning the receiving environment concerned have been measured at a number of sites, particularly in France. |
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If the governor is so sure that there is no problem about the biotic and the quality of the water, why would he resist taking the time to have a sound environmental assessment with good science backing his case? |
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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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Incense is aromatic biotic material which releases fragrant smoke when burned. |
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All animals are infected with biotic agents. |
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Continental shelves teem with life, because of the sunlight available in shallow waters, in contrast to the biotic desert of the oceans' abyssal plain. |
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The biotic integrity of streams in urban and suburbanizing landscapes. |
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Climate change is caused by factors such as biotic processes, variations in solar radiation received by Earth, plate tectonics, and volcanic eruptions. |
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Rivers have been classified by many criteria including their topography, their biotic status, and their relevance to white water rafting or canoeing activities. |
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Combined with the sunlight available in shallow waters, the continental shelves teem with life compared to the biotic desert of the oceans' abyssal plain. |
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The Gulf Biotic facility will be constructed over a 16,000-sqm area at the Salman Industrial City. |
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The Gulf Biotic facility will be constructed over a 16,000-sq m area at the Salman Industrial City and is likely to be up and running within two years. |
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Using invertebrates as an indicator of pollution levels, it was appropriately named the Trent Biotic index. |
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