Sentence examples for edge of distribution from inspiring English sources

Efforts to understand the structure, maintenance, and dynamics of animal range boundaries in a synthetic way are currently hamstrung by the lack of a model system for which multiple demographic parameters can be concurrently estimated in natural populations starting in the interior of a species range and moving out toward the edge of distribution [2].

Further, a strongly supported clade (BPP = 1) contains 15 species and some putative species from the Southern edge of distribution of the Coastal clade.

Otherwise the genetic divergence between lineages in túngara frogs in allopatry could be the result from a combination of niche specialization followed by niche conservatism at the edges of distribution ranges in Costa Rica.

Moreover, there is some debate about the origin and taxonomy of stands of A. pendula found in the Hunter region of New South Wales (Bell et al., 2007), the extreme eastern range edge of its distribution and a notable anomaly for this species, given its predominate semiarid/arid distribution in four Australian states.

We suggest that one important determinant of density-distribution relationships is the geographical location of the study: on the edge of a distribution range, suitable habitat patches are likely to be more isolated than in the core of the range.

Both were found at the very western-most edge of the distribution of Urbanus ehakernae as it protrudes into the more encompassing "dry forest to rain forest" distribution of Urbanus segnestami.

The comma reaches the northern edge of its distribution in Britain.

The European roe deer population in Portugal is on the southwestern edge of its distribution.

We examined the effects of these sylvopastoral management systems on habitat use and reproduction of the middle spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopos medius), a forest specialist bird, at the south-western edge of its distribution range.

We developed habitat-occupancy models combining scales from nest-site to landscape for a key population at the northwestern edge of the distribution of the globally endangered Egyptian vulture (Neophron percnopterus).

At the northern edge of its distribution, the marsh rice rat is listed as threatened in Illinois and whether it persists in Pennsylvania is unclear; it probably formerly occurred in tidal marshes on the Delaware River.