Sentence examples for patchy edge from inspiring English sources

An increase in patchy "edge" habitat might have caused hybridization rates between the two species to have changed, but overlap and resultant hybridization almost certainly occurred regularly without human intervention.

AT the edge of the patchy lawn and down a steep little bank, the Russian River didn't rush so much as mosey.

Similarly, GC of SIV-infected animals contained more Ki67+ positive cells, demonstrating an expanded DZ, whereas follicular dendritic cells (FDC) had a patchy distribution localized to one edge of GC.

"Degradation is very patchy and dynamic along the forest edges," he said.

Du Sautoy makes a lucid and beguiling companion as he guides us along the byways of contemporary science, but his argument about the seven edges of knowledge remains patchy, elusive and deeply obscure.

We intensively sampled carbon stocks and other geochemical properties (δ13C, particle size, depositional fluxes) across seagrass sand edges in a Zostera muelleri patchy seagrass landscape.

Tubules had patchy moderate cystic dilation with focal scalloped edges and contained tubular proteinaceous droplets.

We further explain variation in raven occurrence along anthropogenic features based on the amount of non-native vegetation and cover type edge, such that ravens select fragmented sagebrush stands with patchy, exotic vegetative introgression.

To investigate the morphologic changes along the edge of posterior staphyloma in highly myopic eyes with patchy chorioretinal atrophy and to identify the relationship between retinal thinning and the visual field (VF) defects found in these eyes.

We excluded images with patchy staining because it was difficult to outline the iERM edges.

His team rode its luck in a patchy first hour, during which the diminutive Mathieu Valbuena often gave Marseille the edge in creativity.