These words are often used together. Click on the links below to explore the meanings. Or,see other collocations withlimitationordispersal.dispersalnoun[U]uk
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/d??sp??.s?l/the action of spreading across or moving away over a large area, or of making people or things ...See more atdispersallimitationnounuk
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/?l?m.??te?.??n/the act of controlling and especially ...See more atlimitation
(Definition ofdispersalandlimitationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofdispersal limitation
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.Seed dispersal patterns produced by white-faced monkeys: implications for thedispersallimitationof neotropical tree species.From theCambridge English CorpusWe propose that insectdispersallimitationis one likely factor.From theCambridge English CorpusThis raises questions over the degree to which seeddispersallimitationmay hinder secondary forest succession.From theCambridge English CorpusDispersallimitationwas detected for both early and late-successional species.From theCambridge English CorpusWe assumed k was constant across stations within a site, a characterization of the average degree ofdispersallimitation, topography and other features of a given site.From theCambridge English CorpusFor 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.From theCambridge English CorpusThese 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.From theCambridge English CorpusLessdispersallimitationcould result from uniformity of dispersal syndromes among species combined with a limited but effective set of extant dispersers.From theCambridge English CorpusHence, 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.From theCambridge English CorpusThese examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.Want to learn more?Go to the definition ofdispersalGo to the definition oflimitationSee other collocations withlimitationSee other collocations withdispersal#https://dictionary.cambridge.org/example/english/dispersal-limitation##
