Sentence examples for dispersal network from inspiring English sources

Neighbouring social groups are linked with habitat-confined shortest paths and form a dispersal network.

"However, today, they live in a very fragmented world so the dispersal network has been disrupted by the human-modified landscape," Dr Prasad observed.

This paper provides a possibility that researchers could use it to make the adjustment for the prey dispersal network to protect some species, which truly shows that the results in this paper are meaningful not only in theory but also in practice.

We assessed the functional role of each species in the seed dispersal network with two network surrogates (see details on the calculations in [40], [41]).

Although our observations are most likely insufficient to capture the exact dispersal network between populations, the networks we analyzed should be quite realistic, because they are consistent with the natural barriers in the study area.

The disease progression in each patch (campus) is tracked using the baseline model, and the transmission among patches is represented by the mobility of (untraced, unquarantined and unisolated) individuals from one patch to another on a given dispersal network (see S1 Appendix C for details).

Among phenotypic traits, the most commonly used in analyses of seed dispersal networks are the disperser bill width and fruit diameter (i.e. this will determine whether or not a seed can be swallowed and dispersed), as well as accessibility restrictions by frugivores (e.g. Rezende et al. 2007; Olesen et al. 2011; Burns 2013).

We experimentally removed the most abundant seed-dispersing ant species from seed dispersal networks in a Mediterranean landscape, replicating the experiment in three types of habitat, and then compared these communities to un-manipulated control communities.

The model simulates population dynamics and makes use of Voronoi diagrams and dispersal networks as a spatial component.

Dr Prasad said they used the collated data to see if a better understanding of the impacts of the biodiversity loss driver on seed dispersal networks could be used to develop better management and conservation practices.

Based on our analysis of conservation needs, seed dispersal research should be carried out at larger spatial scales in heterogenous landscapes, examining the simultaneous impacts of multiple drivers on community-wide seed dispersal networks.