Sentence examples for quality patch from inspiring English sources

Habitat quality, patch area and isolation are mainly focused on when analyzing distribution patterns in fragmented landscapes.

This means that, when a low quality patch is found around the area corresponding to 15% of included data, this will decrease the accuracy at the following regions, which means that quality at the location of 23% inclusion would actually be higher than the observed 74%.

In Coolen et al.'s study (experiment 2) the authors report that, following observation of demonstrator conspecifics feeding at two food patches that differ in their profitabilities, 9-spined sticklebacks acquired a preference for the richer quality patch, whilst 3-spined sticklebacks did not.

Specifically, earthworms foraging for high quality patches may stimulate microbial N immobilization, translating into lower N capture by plants.

Top-down foragers were able to find more resources than bottom-up foragers, except in landscapes with very few and poor quality patches.

We conclude that conservation of semi-natural habitats as sources of bee and wasp diversity is important and that grass strips act as sinks rather than corridors when high quality patches are nearby.

Some herders also move their animals to regional patches during good seasons, suggesting that they are seeking the highest quality patches to generate the fattest, healthiest stock for sale in the market rather than to generate high milk yields for home consumption.

This influences their settlement choice in the next year: most prospecting birds indeed choose to settle closer to higher quality patches.

In such a case, only the largest and best quality patches are likely to be occupied, but because these are the best quality patches, they may support a relatively dense population [ 33], leading into a negative density – distribution relationship.

The model predicts (i) generally plants should invest in higher quality patches compared to lower quality patches, and as patch background contrast increases; (ii) low encounter rates between roots and nutrients result in high root foraging precision; and (iii) low handling times for nutrients should result in high root foraging precision.

It is also possible to imagine source-sink dynamics [ 60] where a few high quality patches may maintain high, stable levels of spore production.