Sentence examples for highly patchy from inspiring English sources
Surface character, variability, and spatial organisation differed among the eight floodplains; and random, fragmented, highly patchy, and simple gradient spatial patterns were exhibited, depending upon the metric and window size.
It is concluded that the downward upward currents can be mapped to those domains in the near-Earth tail and suggest that these regions are in fact very narrow and that due to this narrowness and the abundance of upward downward current regions reconnection in near-Earth space during substorms is probably highly patchy.
It seems likely that the stopovers shown by sunfish 3 signify encounters with preferred pelagic prey such as gelatinous zooplankton, the distribution of which is highly patchy [26].
Tridacna maxima clams were abundant on the line and patch reefs in <10 m water, though highly patchy in distribution (Figure 3F).
The observation that a comparatively small set of sequences explains a disproportionally large part of the results (Table 1) is probably best viewed as an indication of a highly patchy and non-random taxonomic distribution of species sampled.
These factors have resulted in a highly patchy distribution of large cardamom plantations.
We also observed a highly variable patchy pattern of throughfall beneath individual shrub canopies, but the spatial patterns appeared to be stable among rainfall events based on time stability analysis.
The models also predict that loss of climatic suitability may result in highly fragmented and patchy distributions, resulting in a greater loss of connectivity.
In AA, highly reduced and patchy marrow uptake is seen, but also a diffusely decreased uptake.
In a patchy, highly structured population, where brothers compete for mates and the reproductive return through sons is lower, females should minimize the number of male offspring.
This pattern of dispersal, coupled with a high rate of self-pollination, has led to species distributions that consist of patchy, often highly homozygous populations distributed over areas defined by major river systems47.
