Sentence examples for patchy distributed from inspiring English sources

In this area, food distribution is uneven and food appears to be patchy distributed (Figure 1).

When a resource is scarce and patchy, distributed on spatial scale beyond the animal's sensory range, the best search strategy consists in moving according to a Levy process with step lengths following an inverse square power law distribution, while when the density of targets increases, a less skewed path length distribution (e.g., Brownian motion) increases foraging efficiency [21], [42], [43].

In line with the genomic arguments of horizontal acquisition are the patchy distributed fit components that share highest homology with bacteria outside the Pseudomonadaceae family.

This suggests that although their feeding ecology is inflexible, being tied to widely distributed, patchy, and sometimes scarce fruit, ruffed lemurs instead adapt the social system in order to survive.

At low magnification, alveolar spaces were enlarged and surrounded by patchy interstitial fibrosis distributed throughout the lungs, and lined by hyperplastic type II pneumocytes, suggestive of the organizing stage of a diffuse alveolar damage.

Expression of αv β6 was patchy but widely distributed throughout the dysplastic epithelium as well as in the islands of invasive OSCC, but expression was weak in the TEIOC model despite flow cytometric analysis showing strong αv β6 staining on monolayer cultures.

E. serotinus is widely distributed throughout Europe, while E. isabellinus shows a patchy distribution restricted to the southern half of the Iberian Peninsula and North Africa (Ibáñez et al. 2006; Juste et al. 2013).

To mimick the patchy distribution of sewage sludge, NP-contaminated sewage sludge pellets were distributed in noncontaminated soil and F. fimetaria were exposed to it.

Both these groups of HEPN domain proteins are also widely distributed among major bacterial lineages (Table  1, Additional file 1) but show a much more patchy distribution in bacteria than in archaea.

Among the 4, G. procyonis (raccoons) is widely distributed in the United States, whereas G. turgidum (opossums), G. miyazakii (otter), and G. socialis (mink) have patchy distributions (27 ).

Since the input data are sparsely distributed and patchy we chose an algebraic iterative algorithm.