Sentence examples for about dispersal from inspiring English sources

We thus make a rather standard assumption about dispersal: that individuals disperse away at the risk of landing in a site where they are less well adapted and risk being competitively inferior.

Amid the debate about dispersal schemes and funding shortfalls, Kent's latest figures reveal the human cost; 180 children do not have an allocated social worker and are still waiting for a full assessment.

Both should be taken into consideration in order to refine predictions about dispersal and gene flow in river network.

In the marine context, information about dispersal is essential for the design of networks of marine protected areas (MPAs).

Despite a good understanding on how dispersal in space structures plant communities in fragmented landscapes, we know little about dispersal in time.

At present, this work highlights our lack of knowledge about dispersal by microbial species, as there remain only a handful of genetic studies conducted at the appropriate resolution to assess population-level processes.

This implies high levels of inter-island ancestry brought about by frequent dispersal and subsequent gene flow across the three islands sampled.

Although we have not looked at selection, what little is known about natal dispersal in Western Scrub-Jays suggests that, to the contrary, females disperse about three times farther than males on average [ 31].

If, last week, you'd quizzed me about the dispersal strategies of spiders, I would have told you all about "ballooning", how Charles Darwin, at sea on the Beagle in 1832, was stunned to see thousands of tiny, dusky red spiders come floating on board, borne on silky parachutes that trapped them in the rigging.

The spatial pattern of intraspecies crop genetic diversity provides independent information about the origin of the crop as well as information about the dispersal routes followed.

Unfortunately, little is known about the dispersal of sponge sperm in general, and nothing is known about S. lophyropoda sperm in particular but the reported short-range dispersal [ 22, 28, 29, 32] of S. lophyropoda larvae, fully agrees with the strong genetic structure in the species.