Sentence examples for mass dispersal from inspiring English sources

The mass dispersal has been warmly applauded by local people.

Five years ago, in just that way, a mass dispersal of millions of tiny spiders covered 60 acres of clover field in British Columbia with thick webbing.

David Alan Robertson, president of the Association of College and University Museums and Galleries, said it was by far the largest closing of an academic museum in his memory, and he said he could not think of a mass dispersal of important works from a college or university that would compare.

Sediments are a product of mass dispersal at the Earth surface and take part in global cycles.

Those no longer containing A. studiosus were considered "extinct", presumably either (1) due to a mass dispersal event, or (2) a colony-wide die off.

However, some circumstantial evidence has associated dramatic mass-dispersal events (i.e., spatial "star bursts") and colony-level extinctions with the presence of foreign spider species (Agnarsson 2006; Avilés et al. 2006; Perkins et al. 2007).

With more mites present, there were fewer larvae (Fig. 1) but each on average had attained a greater mass by dispersal (Fig. 3).

When there were relatively few mites present, there were more larvae (Fig. 1), but each larva on average attained a lower mass by dispersal (Fig. 3).

We measured average larval mass at dispersal and removed the adults at this point, temporarily housing females and males individually under standard conditions.

This suggests that females, in particular, may sustain lower costs of investment because they contribute more to offspring provisioning (Smiseth & Moore, 2004), and hence to larval mass at dispersal (Lock et al., 2004).

Larger, longer-lived plants have larger seeds, on average (Baker 1972), and growth form explains more of the variation for seed mass than dispersal syndrome (Moles et al. 2005).