Edge effect
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habitat conditions (such as degree of humidity and exposure to light orwind) created at or near the more-or-less well-defined boundary between ecosystems, as,for example, between open areas and adjacent forest. [Ministry of Forests -- Government of British Columbia]
Definition: knife-edge effect ...(188) Note: The knife-edge effect is explained by Huygens' principle, which states that a well-defined obstruction to an electromagnetic wave acts as a
Results and discussion ...where the aggregate edge effect on the placement has been eliminated. ... This totally eliminates the edge effect of the aggregate, as the cement
Edge Effects in Grasslands The apparent edge effect was confounded with vegetation; ... indicating that the apparent edge effect near shrubby edges might not be directly caused by
TERRITORIAL MIGRANT POPULATION MODEL ...ratio approaching zero, or, equivalently, nesting success in the absence of any edge effect, and ei is the normalized edge:area index of patch i.
6/29/98 Sand M Amphibian Protocol Adjustments ...with a larger potential edge effect on surface microclimates, ... that may match the edge effect distance relative to microclimate conditions important
Monitoring Design and Analysis ...of problems of edge effect, although problems of edge effect can be largely ... Edge effect can result in significant measurement bias if the quadrats
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