Sentence examples for extensive mean from inspiring English sources

Pollen immigration into small disjunct populations was extensive (mean minimum estimate 40%% and mean maximum estimate 57%% of progeny) and dispersal occurred over large distances (≤1870m).

But inasmuch as consumption is only created by production, the two should always in a natural state of things keep pace with each other; the demand for productions should always increase as they become abundant and cheap, for abundance implies great production, and great production an extensive means of consumption.

It is a fundamental property of living systems that they have extensive means to buffer their internal physiological state against the effects of changes the environment might tend to have on them (e.g., the ability to deal with free radicals, reactive oxygen species, and reactive products produced in the normal metabolism of food; Kemper et al., 2007).

The 1998 participants reported more extensive use (mean 20.7 units) in 1998 compared to 2006 (mean 14.2 units).

There may even be room for the despised moneylenders, whose local knowledge and extensive business mean they cannot be ignored either.

Extensive options mean that strikingly different maps can be created from a single set of data.

He closed his review by calling 75 a "fitting finale to the career of an artist whose creativity, forward thinking and extensive discography mean that he may be gone, but he'll never be forgotten".

For spawning, however, statistically significant, but very low population differentiation (θ; 0.002 - 0.013) was found in nine out of ten reproductive site comparisons, reflecting interactions between extensive migration (mean first generation (F0) = 10.8%) and initial site fidelity.

Although still an area of extensive research, mean diffusivity increases in grey matter in both healthy and diseased brains is believed to reflect the enlargement of extracellular space that is mainly associated with neuronal loss (Kantarci et al., 2005; Carlesimo et al., 2010).

Their extensive lineup means they have two drummers firing like twin engines and still have manpower left over for three guitars, a harmonica, a theremin and even the odd bit of Mackenzie's flute.

Taylor's extensive knowledge means that, as well as speaking up for unfashionable Hugh Walpole and J B Priestly, he introduces the obscure, such as Jack Lindsay, a working-class scribe whose novel End of Cornwall (1937) "charts the collapse of living standards in the rural South-west".