Sentence examples for patchy land from inspiring English sources

There is a 30-acre spread of patchy land less than a mile from I-75 in Sarasota, Florida, that's home to a menagerie of lions, tigers, a liger, a couple of cougars, chimpanzees, Kodiak bears, lemurs, and all sorts of other exotic creatures from around the world.

This generic approach makes it possible to reconstruct different kinds of patchy landscape compositions (land cover) and opens the way to study changes in landscape configuration (unit arrangements) as well as an analytical description of landscapes.

The patchy and scattered suburban land is formed by occupying former agricultural land, natural grasslands and forests.

Plot-to-plot β-diversity from within small localities to across regions should also be higher in the Alps than in the Scandes because of a geologically and geographically more heterogeneous set of refugial re-colonisation sources as well as a greater habitat fragmentation resulting from patchy geologic features and Holocene land-use histories in the Alps.

The response around the country was patchy.

Such landscape self-organization is interpreted in terms of spatial arrangements of numerous land covers and fine scale patchy mosaics.

While various attempts have been made to establish strategic environmental assessment (SEA) processes and institutions in various jurisdictions within Australia, the success of these often short lived attempts at institutional approaches for managing public land use conflict has been patchy.

Trochoidea geyeri (Soós 1926) is a land snail restricted to a patchy, insular distribution in Germany and France.

The result, says NIACE, is patchy teaching standards, especially in the new landing areas for refugees and eastern European migrants, which are not used to large-scale immigration.

But the fossil record of land-dwelling organisms is so patchy this far back in time that it's difficult to say for sure which wings came first.

We know that much of the aircraft's path was over water where no signal would have been possible (a tower has a range of about 35km), however even when it hit land the coverage may have been patchy.