Sentence examples for range boundary from inspiring English sources

Beatty, G. E., Philipp, M. & Provan, J. Unidirectional hybridization at a species' range boundary: Implications for habitat tracking.

We used the 85% contour to define the edge of each top predator's distribution and used this edge as a proxy for a range boundary.

The highway posed a home range boundary to resident bears, but was not an absolute barrier.

Constitutive relations are derived for a range boundary conditions (fixed-free, fixed-roll and fixed-simply supported) under conditions allowing different lengths of the piezoelectric and elastic layers.

Second, changes in the structure of the bird metacommunity were examined by quantifying three of its components: coherence, species turnover and species range boundary clumping.

In this study, we used microsatellite and mtDNA data to examine the genetic structuring and diversity of some of the last remaining R. draytonii populations in the northern Sierra Nevada, which collectively form the northern external range boundary.

Thomas, C. D. Climate, climate change and range boundaries.

We couldn't actually see the process of range boundaries changing taking place, or see what was driving those changes.

In North America and Europe, grey wolves Canis lupus (top predator) were extirpated by humans from parts of their historical range, resulting in the formation of new range boundaries (Fig. 2).

We used the existence of these new range boundaries to quantify changes in mesopredator abundance on either side of the range edge.

The role of biotic interactions, such as predation and competition, in determining range boundaries remains poorly understood2,3, even though such interactions can have strong effects4.