ecological significance

collocation in English

meanings of ecologicaland significance

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ecological
adjective
uk /ˌiː.kəˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/ us /ˌiː.kəˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
relating to ecology or ...
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significance
noun[U]
uk /sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kəns/ us /sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kəns/
importance:
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Examples of ecological significance

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Because its definitive host species (a fish) is unknown, the ecologicalsignificance of its phenology is uncertain.
To test whether such ' cost ' of resistance to herbicides is expressed through lower resource acquisition, changes in resource allocation, or both, is of ecologicalsignificance.
Do their leaf area differences have any ecologicalsignificance?
But although this shows that reflectances are rarely of primary ecologicalsignificance it does not begin to show that colors are not reflectances.
Here we examine the question of status using a molecular approach, and conclude with comments on the possible ecologicalsignificance of these findings.
This objection relies on the assumption that selection cannot act to produce detectors for properties that lack primary ecologicalsignificance for an organism.
The ecologicalsignificance of priming and evolutionary origin of these traits remain to be studied.
Both strategies entail stratification of communities so that the spatial distribution of pigments has a cumulative effect of ecologicalsignificance.
Nevertheless, burial improved emergence and mean survival, and induced differences in specific leaf area of seedlings that could have ecologicalsignificance.
Studying the occurrence of physical seed dormancy in species from different ecosystems will help us to understand its evolution and ecologicalsignificance.
These differences could have an ecologicalsignificance in terms of species strategy.
Therefore, further research is needed to determine the ecologicalsignificance and physiological mechanisms involved in this interaction.
The ecologicalsignificance of these deep roots in terms of water and nutrient uptake is in need of further exploration.
On the contrary, this feature of reflectances is entirely welcome because color is rarely of primary ecologicalsignificance.
One objection starts by pointing out that reflectance-types have no primary ecologicalsignificance.
It was of ecologicalsignificance that this mortality effect was detected under field conditions using several years of empirically-collected population dynamics data.
The way the resistance cost is expressed via change in acquisition or allocation is therefore of ecologicalsignificance.
The ecologicalsignificance of these findings is discussed.
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