Sentence examples for is highly patchy from inspiring English sources

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].

Regardless, zooplankton are highly patchy in the ocean and a wide range of possible zooplankton density would be encountered.

Natural populations of wild host plants are highly patchy, with many diverse genotypes of the same species, and different environmental conditions between populations (Zhan et al. 2015).

"Research is extremely patchy and inconclusive.

The gamma power at each electrode is highly variable, resulting in a patchy power map.

A history of patchy hair loss that has regrown is highly indicative of alopecia areata.

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.

In contrast to this, the Maverick transposons (also called Polintons) have been characterized by a highly patchy distribution in diverse eukaryote species, but not in plants [ 13, 14].

As a consequence, tropical mountains are characterized by a wide array of habitats with a highly patchy distribution given the high topographic heterogeneity of these mountains [ 11, 13].

Tridacna maxima clams were abundant on the line and patch reefs in <10 m water, though highly patchy in distribution (Figure 3F).

As predicted, and using a range of approaches, we have shown that the distribution of dead O. unilateralis infected ants is both patchy and highly dynamic (Fig. 2, 3).