Sentence examples for patchy environment from inspiring English sources

"Sampling a patchy environment, you may not necessarily hit the patches," he said.

The population living in a patchy environment is affected by the space structures.

In particular, CMLs can depict discontinuous properties (e.g., patchy environment or fragmented habitat) of predator prey systems [25].

Although the findings were based on a species adapted to a "patchy" environment, the work could help biologists understand how habitat fragmentation may affect other animals.

But for many mathematical models of infectious diseases in a patchy environment, the global stability of the endemic equilibrium is still an open problem.

Our results suggest that the effects and interactions generated by soil fauna need to be explicitly considered in analyses of how plants forage for nutrients in a patchy environment.

The spatial distribution of organisms in patchy environments can be determined by the relationship between habitat quality and animal behaviour.

Further, these types of exploratory approaches are crucially important in a variety of extremely patchy environments where variability is likely to be high.

Ultimately associated with group hunting, evolutionary processes in fluctuating and/or patchy (environments) appear to have favored the conditional behavioral strategies of switching tactics in social carnivores.

This approach allows one to consider life-history attributes that influence persistence in patchy environments (e.g., longevity, colonization ability) in concert with extrinsic processes (e.g., disturbances, succession) that lead to spatial heterogeneity in patch suitability.

In the context of optimal foraging in patchy environments, animals may estimate profitability of patches from different cues to update their estimate of the profitability of the whole habitat.