Sentence examples for are patchily distributed from inspiring English sources

Tapirs are patchily distributed in what seems like homogenous forest.

This observation also provides an explanation for why so many genes are patchily distributed across genomes of closely related microbes.

Food resources are patchily distributed in the environment and carnivores and herbivores have adopted different foraging strategies to maximize feeding efficiency.

Soil nutrients and herbaceous plant growth are patchily distributed in desert ecosystems, often restricted to "fertility islands" created by perennial shrubs.

However, because of the loss of these areas, fox squirrel populations are patchily distributed and they are thought to be declining.

Movement patterns while flying and diving were best approximated by Brownian motion even though their primary prey, capelin, Mallotus villosus, are patchily distributed.

Fungi tend to be patchily distributed across a landscape (Batty et al. 2001), and their distributions are driven largely by local mechanisms, especially soil properties such as soil moisture and soil organic matter (Brundrett and Abbott 1994).

The species is patchily distributed and is more prone to hide in tall vegetation than the related Purple Gallinule.

Instead, the heavy use of oil dispersants during and after the blowout meant that the oil was patchily distributed.

The Marbled Wood-Quail is patchily distributed in lowland tropical and subtropical forest from Panama to Bolivia.

Vegetation history suggests that the habitat of C. corrugatum was patchily distributed in the landscape since the early Holocene.