Sentence examples for extensive drift from inspiring English sources

In the 1970s Japanese manufacturers developed lightweight, high-strength polymers that were in turn spun into extensive drift nets that could be many miles long.

We used an extensive drift fence array to capture most of the surface-active salamanders over 2 years at two adjacent breeding ponds in a natural prairie ecosystem.

Coverage gaps and extensive drift of chemicals can occur due to technological limitations of terrestrial spraying of the tallest mature trees and is further complicated by the peculiar architecture of the palms.

The lower power to detect ancient admixture was due to the extensive drift in the small Native American populations providing opportunities for the admixture signal to be lost by chance.

The same could be said of Chicago's Lurie Garden in Millennium Park, where extensive drifts of flowering plants in permanently planted borders constantly draw in passers-by.

This period of heavy snowfall was accompanied by stormy winds and an extensive drifting of fresh snow, especially to steep slopes near ridges, which in turn increased the probability of large avalanches (BAFU 1999).

Such behaviour may provide some benefits, as, for example, in terms of orientation by limiting extensive drifts throughout the oceanic basin, or in terms of foraging by maintaining the animal in an area where surface resources availability may be driven by deep, bathymetric-mediated, oceanic processes.

To investigate this, we measured the effects of imitation phantasms (i.e. small, brief patches of real dynamic noise) on contrast discrimination for spatio-temporally co-extensive drifting gratings (Fig. 3 right panel).

Unidentified sample-specific factors have also been found to generate extensive baseline drift across multiple primer pairs that normally do not generate baseline drift.

However, due to extensive antigenic drift which occurred in the 2009 pandemic virus, current seasonal vaccines do not provide any significant cross protection [12].

It is well known that influenza undergoes extensive antigenic drift, allowing a single individual to be repeatedly infected with successive strains of influenza differing in antigenic character [ 2].