Sentence examples for patchy resources from inspiring English sources

Animals and plants considered weedy species typically have short lifespans and a flexible lifestyle that allows them to take advantage of sparse or patchy resources, Doubleday says.

The greater linearity of movement during the migration period suggests individuals do not intensively forage on patchy resources until they arrive at summer or winter sites.

Thus, an ethnoarchaeological approach is an effective tool to add time-depth to our understanding of the ways that a variety of communities have developed viable strategies to adapt to patchy resources in such drylands.

The study of the Kel Tadrart adaptation to an arid environment and patchy resources, along with the recording of material evidence, holds direct relevance to archaeologists, anthropologists, and stakeholders interested in sustainable dryland pastoralism.

No special process has to be invoked to create a structured-deme population as it can simply arise from random distributions of genotypes across patchy resources; a quite common process in many animals, particularly insects.

The modelling framework developed in our work adds a spatially explicit account of stochastic interaction and depletion of patchy resources, and includes multiple individuals and growth strategies; future hybrids of these modelling approaches may prove fruitful in resolving the mechanisms behind the context-dependent empirical results highlighted above.

Clonal growth seems to play an important role in this system, since this patchy resource-poor environment imposes several constraints on the flora.

Patchy food resources may select for individuals to aggregate close to food resources and cooperate because of the costs involved with dispersal and burrowing.

In decapods the most aggressive fighters are aquatic species, which are well armed, meet infrequently, and compete only occasionally over patchy, ephemeral resources, including females.

Mole rat sociality itself seems an adaptation to patchy food resources in an arid environment (O'Riain and Faulkes 2008).

The research in the Tadrart Acacus has adopted a multi-pronged approach including archaeological techniques, ethnographic tools, and historical perspectives, to identify the major elements of the Kel Tadrart adaptation to patchy natural resources and arid climate.