Sentence examples for contiguous patches from inspiring English sources

When formerly contiguous patches of habitat are broken apart, it is called fragmentation.

When formerly contiguous patches of habitat are broken apart and separated by some other habitat, it is called fragmentation.

The storm's velocity couplet — bright contiguous patches of red and green on the radar, the signature of rotation — suddenly spiked to dangerous levels.

If an investor needs fifty patches of land adjacent to each other, the last landholder can hold it to ransom, because the whole project hinges on acquiring the fiftieth parcel.It follows that governments need not invoke their powers of eminent domain for all public goods—only those that require lots of contiguous patches of land.

Landscape metrics showed fragmentation of native vegetation followed by coalescence to contiguous patches of cultivation as settlements increased.

Fishers selected landscapes for home ranges with larger, more contiguous patches of mature forest and reduced amounts of open areas.

They form a contiguous patch on a solvent-exposed surface at one end of the four-helix bundle of DIII.

These amino acid residues do form a contiguous patch and therefore may point to the putative ligand-binding site (Figure 6B).

Each single or contiguous patch of ⩾2 MT-immunopositive crypts was considered to represent a single mutant focus.

In all 14 hemispheres (7 participants), as well as in the group average data, a contiguous patch of cortical surface on or near HG showed classification accuracy significantly above chance.

In particular, Glu108 is adjacent to the PA-binding motif and its substitution by lysine generates a contiguous patch of positively charged residues that was recently demonstrated to potentiate membrane binding [Yadav and Bar-Sagi, 2010].