Sentence examples for by the largest patch from inspiring English sources

At coarse thematic scales metrics describing the grain and area occupied by the largest patch (dominance metrics) were suitable to distinguish between landscapes, whereas shape, configuration and diversity indices were more useful at finer scales.

This is further supported by the largest patch index, which measures fragmentation and dominance in the landscape (McGarigal et al. 2002) that could be reduced overtime.

In our model, the ruptured area is strictly limited by the largest patch assumed, surrounded by an unbreakable barrier in all directions.

ED quantifies the amount of edge per unit area, and LPI provides a percentage of the area covered by the largest patch of tanglehead in the landscape.

Our results indicate that wave radiation is generally governed by the largest patch at each moment and that the contribution from small patches is minor.

According to the variable importance in the projection (VIP) values, the dominant first-order factors for the nitrate concentration were as follows: the areal percentages of agricultural, forest and residential areas; followed by the slope; the largest patch index (LPI); the flow path gradient (FPG); the slope gradient variance (SGV); and the splitting index (SPLIT).

In general, the change in LULC has resulted in landscape fragmentation, which is indicated by the proliferation of large numbers of patches by increasing patch density and decreasing the largest patch index and irregular shape of patch within individual landscapes and at each class level.

We think that the mechanism of the Tohoku Earthquake is better explained by cascade-rupture growth from a medium size patch to the largest patch rather than by interactions between a few large asperities.

Patches are classified from the smallest (Patch 1) to the largest patch floral display (Patch 28).

The same periodic slip rate bursts exist in both cases (Figs. 8, 13), because this is governed by the larger patches that commonly exist in the system.

Again, the overall behavior of the system (horizontal axis) does not change because it is governed by the larger patches; however, the peak value of the local slip rate is reduced because of the disappearance of the smallest patches.