Sentences with phrase «environmental fluctuations»

E. coli's metabolism is nothing if not robust, able to easily withstand significant environmental fluctuations.

«When heating is turned on and off frequently it creates strong environmental fluctuations, which translate into a significant rise in temperatures (double that at the start) and a dangerous drop in relative humidity (below 20 %) in the tall ceiling areas of the church,» explains the researcher María José Varas - Muriel, lead author of the work.

«Ideally, identification of the most important mechanisms will allow us to assemble treatment communities that are robust, difficult to invade, and provide consistent benefits despite environmental fluctuations.»

A new study by JCU PhD student Anna Pintor, published in the journal Ecological Monographs, is one of the first to test the Climatic Variability Hypothesis (CVH)-- which proposes that animals living in environmentally variable areas should be able to tolerate more environmental fluctuations as a result.

However, it is hard to understand why the specific religious concept which they regard as outdated superstition, should be replaced by another superstition, popular in 19 century, that a directed evolution of species can result from random genetic mutations and random environmental fluctuations.

Rapid environmental fluctuations will be harmful to the painting.

Environmental fluctuations in redox may reinforce rather than hinder evolutionary transitions, such that variability in near surface oceanic oxygenation can promote morphologic evolution and novelty, followed by innovation, and diversification.

Therefore, biodiversity may increase community stability by promoting diversity among species in their responses to environmental fluctuations, but increasing the number and strength of competitive interactions has little effect.

Long - term variability in the abundance of populations depends on the sensitivity of species to environmental fluctuations and the amplification of environmental fluctuations by interactions among species.

The elaborate strains are frequently more susceptible to environmental fluctuations and have trouble competing with more athletic types.

But these environmental fluctuations could have promoted the incremental accumulation of new mental abilities that conferred greater behavioral flexibility.