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This paper explores whether spatial variation in the biodiversity values of vertebrates and plants (species richness, range-size rarity and number or proportion of IUCN Red Listed threatened species) of three African tropical mountain ranges (Eastern Arc, Albertine Rift and Cameroon-Nigeria mountains within the Biafran Forests and Highlands) co-vary with proxy measures of threat (human population density and human infrastructure).

Archive 2007-01-01 2007

So pick a latitude and see how temperature and cloud cover co-vary.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Climate Policy as Sausage Making: 2009

In order for variable X to be the cause of variable Y, (1) X must precede Y in time-order, (2) the two variables must be related, or co-vary, and (3) X must have a “forcing quality” on Y.

Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 1995

Dr. Singley identifies four practical issues that co-vary with poor academic performance, and his research has shown that by attacking those four symptoms, the primary issue -- poor grades -- can be improved markedly.

Rob Stafford: How to Help College Students Do Better 2008

Emotions are sometimes said to be subjective in this sense: that they merely reflect something that belongs exclusively and contingently to the mind of the subject of experience, and therefore do not co-vary with any property that could be independently identified.

Emotion de Sousa, Ronald 2007

Epidemiologists only establish associations that by themselves tell us nothing except that certain variables happen to co-vary in a regular manner.

Treydte, Moberg, Soon and Baliunas « Climate Audit 2006

The changes in Oman coldwater diatoms co-vary with the stalagmite dO18, which is proxy for monsoon precipitation as is the coldwater diatom series.

Monsoon Moberg « Climate Audit 2005

Functions can therefore distinguish between two properties that reliably co-vary as long as one but not the other caused the trait to be selected.

Teleological Theories of Mental Content Neander, Karen 2004

In order for variable X to be the cause of variable Y, (1) X must precede Y in time-order, (2) the two variables must be related, or co-vary, and (3) X must have a “forcing quality” on Y (meaning that X must have a theoretical basis for affecting Y).

Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003

In order for variable X to be the cause of variable Y, (1) X must precede Y in time-order, (2) the two variables must be related, or co-vary, and (3) X must have a “forcing quality” on Y (meaning that X must have a theoretical basis for affecting Y).

Diffusion of Innovations Everett M. Rogers 2003