Key themes include: (1) the tropics represent the evolutionary origins of butterfly diversity, (2) while some tropical butterflies exhibit relatively stable population dynamics, longer-lived adult stages, and more continuous age-specific reproduction compared to temperate zone species, the ***generality*** of these patterns is debatable......
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We then test the ***generality*** of our findings by
comparing our results to a 60-month study conducted in
South America that used the same sampling design.
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011....

Ficaria:
it is unknown how general this pattern is...

Exemplos abaixo:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21616842 - Oversett denne siden
av MS Fitzsimons - ‎2010 - ‎Sitert av 29 - ‎Beslektede artikler
29. okt. 2010 - However, it is currently unknown how general this phenomenon is within most plant communities. Also unknown is the role of mutualists in ...
Reaction Kinetics - Volum 1 - Side 357 - Resultat for Google Books
https://books.google.no/books?isbn=1847556892 - Oversett denne siden
P G Ashmore - 2007 - ‎Science
Thus, for example, if ki - ks < 1, the SSH for the Lotka system would produce spurious oscillations under certain conditions, but it is unknown how general this is, ...
Necrotic Cell Death - Side 71 - Resultat for Google Books
https://books.google.no/books?isbn=1461482208 - Oversett denne siden
Han-Ming Shen, ‎Peter Vandenabeele - 2014 - ‎Science
2009), but it is unknown how general this mechanism might be. It is hard to reconcile such different conclusions: Labbé et al. state that IAPs are required to ...

Refere-se à cobertura geral da característica em uma região.

Portuguese term (edited): generalidade a generalidade de tais padrões a

It's very common in scientific texts to speak of patterns being generalized. If this is an informal text, the "holds true" would be fine.

Examples:

https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1461457556
Rik Leemans - 2012 - ‎Science
... allowing numerous patterns of variations to be explored [10], although **the extent to which these patterns can be generalized remains unknown** [27]. One of the ...

forestecology.cfans.umn.edu/sites/forestecology.cfans.umn.../shipleyoecologia2016.pdf
by B Shipley - ‎2016 - ‎Cited by 40 - ‎Related articles
Systems Ecology, Department of Ecological Science, FALW,. VU University, De ..... **patterns can be generalized beyond the local regions in which the studies ...**

https://rydberg.biology.colostate.edu/poff/Public/poffpubs/P...
by JD ALLAN - ‎1995 - ‎Cited by 1009 - ‎Related articles
of comparative community ecology of both stream fish. (Karr et al. 1986) and ...... **patterns can be generalized across zoogeographic domains** and may have ....