Sentence examples for patchy environments from inspiring English sources

J.H. Gillespie, "Polymorphism in patchy environments," American Naturalist 108 (1974): 145-151.

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.

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

Hayden, B. Y., Pearson, J. M. & Platt, M. L. Neuronal basis of sequential foraging decisions in a patchy environment.

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 openness of habitats before the expansion of C4 grasslands is uncertain, with plant phytolith studies suggesting a patchy environment with open-habitat grasses and forest, and pollen and macrofloral studies suggesting more forested habitats.

In this study, we examine the effect of size, spatial configuration and disturbances on the dynamic interactions of large herbivores and vegetation in a patchy environment using a metapopulation model.