spatial scale
collocation in Englishmeaningsofspatialandscale
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spatial
adjective
uk/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/us/ˈspeɪ.ʃəl/
relating to the position, area, and size ...
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scale
noun
uk/skeɪl/us/skeɪl/
a set of numbers, amounts, etc., used to measure or compare the level ...
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Low spatial frequencies are suppressively masked acrossspatialscale, orientation, field position, and eye of origin.
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However, if we want to characterize the steady-state convection itself, a properspatialscaleshould be chosen.
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Furthermore, young colonies foraged on a smallerspatialscalewith shorter distances covered and fewer leaf sources used.
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Theoretical studies use host- parasite lists, but these do not include studies on a temporal orspatialscale.
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Since the recordings of directional changes had been adjusted to thespatialscaleof foraging, this observation can be interpreted as an age effect.
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We also obtain some important new results for small-scale turbulence by expanding the solutions in inverse powers of the turbulencespatialscale.
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The lack of a seed density effect in this study may be due to thespatialscalethat mammals and other seed predators forage over.
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For each year of the study, all forest was mapped using classified images at aspatialscaleof 30-m pixels.
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The flow strength is denoted by a parameter and flowspatialscaleby 2/.
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Spatialscaleand the processes structuring a guild of larval trematodes.
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For other variables however, the effect ofspatialscalecan have a strong effect.
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Thus, different environment characteristics may have significant effects on changes in temperature when differences inspatialscaleare taken into account.
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The optic array cannot, by itself, provide information about absolutespatialscalebecause it consists of only angular and temporal patterns.
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It could be argued that the observed coexistence reflects thespatialscaleat which both the field data and modelling analyses were undertaken.
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The effects of disturbances such as canopy gaps and logging in the tropics have been linked tospatialscaleand soil type.
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The need for explicitly determining the appropriatespatialscalein the study of substrate r ecolonization is emphasized.
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At least at a smallspatialscale, ants could be responsible for altering the density of the soil seed bank, increasing its patchiness.
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The threshold and growth rate of the instability as well as the optimalspatialscaleof zonal flow are obtained.
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This paper provides insight on liana communities over a largespatialscale, in an area sampled specifically for lianas.
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