Sentence examples for occurs patchily from inspiring English sources
The study population occurs patchily in swamps on the Barrington Plateau.
This occurs patchily at low frequencies and apparently distorts host sex ratios to a 2 1 bias in favour of females.
As far as I know, Sec occurs patchily in unrelated groups of organisms, so even though the Ser Sec reaction occurs in all three domains, there is probably not a good case that it is ancestral.
We propose one approach that focuses habitat conservation in headwater areas – where present management allows extensive logging – on sensitive target species, such as tailed frogs and torrent salamanders that often occur patchily.
In central Finland, these bag worm moth species occur patchily in wooded habitats.
Yet testing a single sample is rarely sufficient because contaminants occur patchily, says Hettiarachchi, who is studying garden soil contaminants in seven cities and food crops' absorption of them under various conditions.
Competition for resources seems to be the most likely reason because: (i) P. vulgatissima adults often aggregates on plants within willow stands in the spring and are attracted to volatiles emitted from damaged plants [26], and (ii) plants occur more patchily in the natural habitat with a larger plant-to-plant distance than in plantations.
Hybrids were found to occur in patchily distributed intermediate habitats that suggest a mosaic hybrid zone (Harrison 2005; Arnold 1997).
The susu and bhulan are patchily distributed throughout their range, generally occurring in counter-currents and deep pools located downstream of channel confluences and sharp meanders, and upstream and downstream of mid-channel islands.
The motivations to alter reproductive behaviour were locally and patchily expressed, so it is not surprising that fertility declines occurred with different timings and rates in the three studied localities.
These plant communities are often patchily distributed due to the myriad of spatially proximate microclimates that occur in the Alps, especially sites with calcareous bedrocks which regularly present a mosaic of microhabitats.
