Sentence examples for dispersal like from inspiring English sources

"These bumpheads are downright messy feeders, they break off dozens of pieces they don't eat - those pieces are alive and we believe that acts as dispersal, like the way birds feed on fruits and disperse the seeds".

The results indicate that for species with a high potential for aerial dispersal like Erigone atra (Blackwall) (Araneae: Erigonidae), the proximity of refuge habitats is less important than for species that disperse predominantly over the soil surface like O. apicatus.

These models often have to rely on unrealistic assumptions about costs and risks of dispersal, like an increased risk of starvation or predation, because they measure effectiveness of dispersal strategies as success probability of finding a suitable patch (Conradt et al. 2003).

Overall, the majority of the paths (around 70% in both habitat types) were well described by CRW, only 3% (4/125, 1 in habitat and 3 in matrix) are underpredicted by CRW (too straight movements), 26% (32/125, 16 in habitat and 16 in matrix) overpredicted by CRW (returns towards a previously visited area, mainly due to the existence of some boundaries to dispersal, like tree lines).

A military spokeswoman, Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich, said that Israeli forces warned the protesters not to approach the border, in Arabic with megaphones; used nonlethal riot dispersal means like tear gas, which failed to deter them; and then fired warning shots in the air.

Every morning, the scientists transferred a quarter of each population to the wells on either side of it, simulating a natural dispersal process like fish swimming from one region of a lake to another.

Technically the lab studies wildlife dispersal patterns, like bird pecking and rat munching.

Others have shown that insect's performances related to dispersal ability, like flight endurance or the perceptual range (the distance at which the individual is able to perceive suitable habitats) are both heritable [25] and plastic [26].

In wild barley, the three spikelets form a light, arrowhead-like dispersal unit that both facilitates seed dispersal by animals and aids seed burial.

Job training is an important component of his plan, he said, because he would like the dispersal to occur methodically and with as much dignity as possible; he does not wish for his people to wind up as environmental refugees.

Very few extant Neotropical dispersers, like tapirs, can have larger seed loads per scat, allowing the dispersal of much larger individual seeds.