Sentence examples for patchy distributions from inspiring English sources

Forest diseases commonly occur in patchy distributions across natural landscapes which can be reflected in the genetic composition of the fragmented pathogen populations.

The models also predict that loss of climatic suitability may result in highly fragmented and patchy distributions, resulting in a greater loss of connectivity.

Because of gradients of environmental factors and patchy distributions of microtopography and vegetation, a coastal wetland landscape may have extensive local variations in stability/resilience and in the key relationships that trigger instabilities.

This correlation might be an artefact of variation among studies in sampling effort, especially for vertebrates where small samples reduce apparent similarity across all comparisons, as well as a real effect of variation among studies in landscape heterogeneity and the presence of species with patchy distributions.

Both forms exhibited patchy distributions throughout the bacterial domain.

Some meiotic genes in our survey exhibit patchy distributions (i.e. Rad52, Msh4, Msh5, Mlh2, Mlh3, Mer3, Rad21, Rec8, Pds5 and Scc3, see Table 2).

This resulted in a patchy distribution of training places that has not helped the supply of new teachers in some parts of England.

Foci of Echinococcus multilocularis have a very patchy distribution.

a Chest radiograph showed patchy distribution of areas with increased lung density.

b On CT, a patchy distribution of a crazy-paving pattern was visible.

CT showed patchy distribution of areas with ground-glass opacification and a linear pattern.