In contrast to a number of phenological studies
showing nonlinear relationships between phenology and temperature, due largely to unmet chilling and photoperiod requirements, our findings demonstrate the relationship to be linear and to explain most of the variation in flowering.
Not exact matches
Figure 5
shows this phenomenon of the classic hyperbolic paradigm, ie, the
nonlinear inverse
relationship between the 2 processes.
We did not detect any statistically significant
nonlinear relationship between protein intake and mortality by spline analysis (data not
shown).
Observations from these regions
show much less glacial amplification than near the poles but do exhibit similar
nonlinear relationships with greatly enhanced fluxes for extreme glacial temperatures (Figs. 1 and 3).