gradient
Example Sentences
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"This allowed us to quantify the relationship between forest composition and resilience to storm disturbance, and how this relationship changes along the European climatic gradient."
From Science Daily
"Here, we're showing that if gene flow is happening across these steep environmental gradients, it may have significant negative effects on the local population," Benham said.
From Science Daily
These sites span a large rainfall gradient and vary enormously in their structure: from sparse and short arid woodlands in Western Australia to towering, 90-m tall mountain ash forests in Tasmania.
From Science Daily
In the anomalous Nernst effect, a voltage is generated perpendicular to both the temperature gradient and an applied magnetic field in a ferromagnetic material.
From Science Daily
They sit beneath a “main density gradient” at 850 feet below the surface.
From National Geographic
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