Sentence examples for distributional limit from inspiring English sources

Figure  3A shows the optimal flowering and fruiting months for minimum temperature, which centred on July at the northern limit of the distribution, but in January April at the southwestern distributional limit.

Our approach also identified alliances and associations that are near their distributional limit or where the study area is a stronghold of their distribution, indicating distinctiveness.

Of these, one (A: BlPF4) has not previously been recorded on the South Island, and two (A: BBlPF3 and A: BlPF2) are near their southern distributional limit in the Mokihinui lower gorge.

Code letters indicate broad structural forest types:  BF beech forest, BBlF beach-broadleaved forest, BBlPF beech-broadleaved-podocarp, BlPF broadleaved-podocarp forest aThe study area is south of the distributional limit of Beilschmiedia tawa.

In New Zealand, representativeness and the related property of community distinctiveness (i.e. an assemblage of species is rare, endemic or reaches its distributional limit in the target area) are criteria used to evaluate ecosystem significance for assessment of environmental impacts (O'Connor et al. 1990).

Potamon fluviatile is at the western distributional limit of the genus Potamon.

The stretch of Atlantic coast between North Africa and North Iberia is ideal for studying the relationship between species distribution and climate change as it includes the distributional limits of a considerable number of both cold- and warm-water species.

Apart from a single Papua New Guinean record of anthropogenic origin [ 27, 28], they are unknown from adjacent continental habitats, a distribution pattern that strongly implicates biotic factors in setting their distributional limits [ 3].

This conclusion, however, was based on analyses fraught with complications (Araújo et al. 2009; Peterson et al. 2009), particularly as regards exclusion of distributional limits of the species in question from the area of analysis.

The strong biogeographic affinities of the study area with the North Island reflect climate-related distributional limits of plant species and repeated isolation and fragmentation of populations during Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles; this has facilitated the disjunct distribution of many plant species (McGlone 1985).

Since the Churchill region was not included in their studies, it is not known which Holopedium species (or both) inhabits this region, thus limiting our knowledge of community composition, biogeography, and the distributional limits of cyclic parthenogenesis in this genus.