Sentence examples for of stepping stone from inspiring English sources

We suggest that to support connectivity-related investments, it is necessary to focus on those few species or dispersal distance ranges that are likely to be both most dependent on and most benefited by the conservation or restoration of stepping stone patches.

The definition of stepping stone is unified and relatively blurry.

The lack of stepping stone based dispersal in the evolutionary history of the Shortwing might be a general pattern shown by other species, or might be limited to species of certain life histories and ecologies.

Mrs. Walit served on the board of Stepping Stone, a halfway house in the neighborhood, and volunteered for the Salvation Army.

He was the managing director of Maui Academy of Performing Arts until 2007 and oversaw the establishment of Stepping Stone Playhouse, retired the organization's debt and increased their budget by 20%.

Much of the undisturbed grassland was concentrated in a single large cluster, which was connected to other habitat concentrations via corridors of "stepping stone" patches.

Both the allocation of stepping stones and the enlargement of existing sites provide a higher percentage of occupied habitat.

The utilization of stepping stones by a species leads to nonintuitive relationships between observed abundance and habitat preference that could cause conservation strategies to backfire.

A series of stepping stones lead to the house, made of cedar pillars, wattle-and-daub walls and a roof of black baked-clay tiles.

In the water were pods of hippos submerged up to their backs, which resembled clusters of stepping stones, and crocodiles, their long, dark profiles patrolling the shoreline.

This means that there are limitations to the idea that attending top universities, and education as a whole, is the end all, be all of stepping stones to the American dream.