Sentences with phrase «systematic increase»

The selective loss of large herbivores, for instance, is known to cause relatively systematic increases in abundance of rodents [71], which are thought to be particularly effective at hosting and transmitting human - borne zoonoses, thus driving landscape - level increases in rodent - borne disease [72].

«Our results show that even among baseline groundwater samples collected near existing gas wells, there is no evidence of systematic increased dissolved methane concentrations closer to oil / gas wells.

There is also some evidence that smaller hosts, with faster life histories, tend to be more competent reservoirs for some common zoonoses, regardless of trophic cascades; as hunting favours these species both directly and indirectly, this may lead to systematic increases in zoonotic disease prevalence [75].

``... when there is a systematic increase or decrease in the frequency with which we see a particular gene in a gene pool, that is precisely what we mean by evolution.»

As we have discussed elsewhere on this site, statistical measures that focus on trends in the strongest category storms, maximum hurricane winds, and changes in minimum central pressures, suggest a systematic increase in the intensities of those storms that form.

The probability of getting 6 corrections that all increase the warming trend in a row is (given the prior of unbiased corrections equally likely to increase or decrease trend) sufficient to reject the null hypothesis and state that it is rather likely to be the case that the prior probability of the coin flip is not, in fact, 0.5, but instead that the probability of getting heads (or a systematic increase in trend) is indeed significantly more than 0.5.

Superimposed on the annual fluctuations, there was a systematic increase over the entire period of observation, continuing nonstop since 1958 (Fig.

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This continuous demand for homes in Boston has created a systematic increase in home values in the greater Boston area, making real estate in the entire area a great investment.