dispersal limitation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofdispersalandlimitation
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dispersal
noun[U]
uk/dɪˈspɜː.səl/us/dɪˈspɝː.səl/
the action of spreading across or moving away over a large area, or of making people or things ...
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limitation
noun
uk/ˌlɪm.ɪˈteɪ.ʃən/us/ˌlɪm.əˈteɪ.ʃən/
the act of controlling and especially ...
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(Definition ofdispersalandlimitationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Seed dispersal patterns produced by white-faced monkeys: implications for thedispersallimitationof neotropical tree species.
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We propose that insectdispersallimitationis one likely factor.
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This raises questions over the degree to which seeddispersallimitationmay hinder secondary forest succession.
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Dispersallimitationwas detected for both early and late-successional species.
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We assumed k was constant across stations within a site, a characterization of the average degree ofdispersallimitation, topography and other features of a given site.
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For these species, the scale of patchiness in the critical resource (in this case light) corresponds approximately to the scale of patchiness determined bydispersallimitationin other species.
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These results contradict the species equivalence and environmental homogeneity assumptions behind the neutral theory of biodiversity, and hence question the prominence ofdispersallimitationprocesses in short-term forest dynamics.
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Lessdispersallimitationcould result from uniformity of dispersal syndromes among species combined with a limited but effective set of extant dispersers.
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Hence, the way environmental control, broad-scale historical contingencies, and localdispersallimitation act to control landscape-scale species distributions of tropical forest plant species appear to vary idiosyncratically among species.
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