long-distance dispersal

collocation in English

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long-distance
adjective[before noun]
adverb
uk /ˌlɒŋˈdɪs.təns/ us /ˌlɑːŋˈdɪs.təns/
travelling a long way, or separated by a ...
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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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Examples of long-distance dispersal

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First, tall plants with smooth and small seeds are not likely to be dispersallimited, despite their lack of morphological adaptations for long-distancedispersal.
Substantial temporal and spatial variation in their production is thus smoothed out by long-distancedispersal.
Such mate limitation is likely to be extreme during bouts of colonization of new habitat following long-distancedispersal.
Late-successional seeds were rarer in early successional stands than pioneer seeds in late-successional stands, suggesting that long-distancedispersal is generally more common for pioneer plants.
The authors argued that just a few long-distancedispersal events during the first 10-15 y may be sufficient to initiate forest recovery.
Long-distancedispersal can play a major role in the onset, range and duration of epidemics.
The results indicate a potential role of herbivore endozoochory for the long-distancedispersal of dry-fruited shrubs and their potential colonization of distant sites.
This hypothesis is based on the anthropogenic establishment of invasion corridors facilitating the long-distancedispersal of species between the source and destination areas.
Directional asymmetry of long-distancedispersal and colonization could mislead reconstructions of biogeography.
The extreme stickiness of the seeds evidently evolved to resist removal by seabirds and so facilitate long-distancedispersal.
However, it is worth noting that long-distancedispersal may be very infrequent, and thus not easily observable.
However, ballooning does not confer unlimited access between all populations, suggesting that it may not be an effective means of long-distancedispersal.
High spreading rates were obtained with rare long-distancedispersal events.
For both stratified models it was near 40 km, which is also approximately the distance at which long-distancedispersal occurred.
This patchy structure was interpreted as being a probable consequence of rare long-distancedispersal of seeds during colonization, each patch resulting from a founding event beyond the colonizing front.
Methods for estimating long-distancedispersal.
Alnus pollen was so widely dispersed that values of < 2% were almost certainly attributable t o long-distancedispersal.
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