Sentence examples for in patches of suitable from inspiring English sources

Habitat fragmentation by urbanization causes populations of animals and plants to be isolated in patches of suitable habitat that are surrounded by non-native vegetation or severely altered vegetation, asphalt, concrete, and human structures.

Conversely, species limited by dispersal may not occur in patches of suitable habitat: their realized niche can be smaller than the fundamental environmental envelope where the species can survive and reproduce.

Given their small space requirements, opportunist lizard species can potentially exist in small patches of suitable urban habitat.

Although suitable LPCH habitat appears at first glance to be abundant in southeastern New Mexico, consideration of plant community type and patch size revealed that only 26% of the study area was covered in large patches of suitable vegetation types.

At least five candidate species are potential short-range endemics [ 17] (Cape Range, Kimberley A, C, D, and E): thus, Crenadactylus lineages have clearly persisted and speciated in relatively small patches of suitable habitat.

A small minority of the total number of SDM models in fact predict fragmented patches of suitable habitat across the Edwards Plateau at the LGM.

In the coastal region of south-western Victoria, Australia, populations of native small mammal species are restricted to patches of suitable habitat in a highly fragmented landscape.

On the Swan Coastal Plain to the south, its distribution is discontinuous, being largely confined to patches of suitable sand in the narrow transition zone where tuart forest gives way to jarrah forest.

In agreement with the observed distribution of this species in Cameroon, the ENFA also identified patches of suitable habitat at the fringe of the Adamaoua Highlands.

Although the niche models show some very small patches of suitable habitat (albeit with very low suitability) for leopard cat in Central India, in and around Kanha Tiger Reserve, our sampling in Kanha did not yield any positive result for this species.

A problem with the earlier estimates, says orangutan researcher Sri Suci Utami Atmoko of Universitat Nasional in Jakarta, Indonesia, was that they relied on aerial photographs of patches of suitable orangutan habitat (ScienceNOW, 11 May 2000).