Sentence examples for average patch area from inspiring English sources
In contrast to the decrease of the patch density, the average patch area of 12 soil types increased.
Increases in patch number and average patch area for forest and tree shrub communities at the class level suggested the expansion of these two communities.
The largest increase in average patch area, though, was in cultivation as center-pivot agriculture increased in the bi-county study region (Wenger 2016).
In particular, there was a decrease in the number of patches of each land-cover class and a concurrent increase in average patch area (Table 3).
Although the addition of niche differentiation did not change the qualitative outcome of the model, the spatial metrics show that some aspects of landscape structure, i.e., average patch area and proximity, become hyperdynamic and remain so.
The greatest effects for forests were observed near high-level roads, while the greatest effects for farmland occurred near the low-level roads, Scenario analysis showed that the fractal dimension index, patch numbers, and average patch area of ecosystems decreased with development of road network density.
Large injections (greater than the average patch diameter for that cortical area) result in patches of labeled cortex with the same width and spacing as small injections (Rockland and Lund 1982, 1983; Rockland et al. 1982; Lund et al. 2003).
An evocative similarity exists between the average patch size in a particular cortical area and the average dendritic spread of the pyramidal neurons in that area (Lund et al. 1993).
With the average patch size burned on our study area < 40 ha in size, our findings suggest that small scale (< 40 ha) frequent fires (≤ 3 years) may have minimal influence on bobcat habitat selection.
A comparison of management schedules developed by the model to a strategy of simply designating pre-allocated areas for large patch production shows that valuing core area substantially increases the average patch size of mature forest.
