It will assist us in dealing with these detailed illustrations if we begin by considering the means of dispersal of organisms from one place to another.
It appears to me that you are not justified in arguing from dispersal to oceanic islands to mountains.
I must think that you overrate the importance of new surfaces on mountains and dispersal from mountain to mountain.
I wrote to Forel, who is always at work on ants, and told him of your views about the dispersal of the blind Coleoptera, and asked him to observe.
I think you will have to modify your belief about the difficulty of dispersal of land molluscs; I was interrupted when beginning to experimentise on the just-hatched young adhering to the feet of ground-roosting birds.
I think favourable means of dispersal explain this fact.
As showing how diversified are the means of occasional transport, I have discussed at some little length the means of dispersal of fresh-water productions.
But I am inclined to attribute the dispersal of fresh-water fish mainly to slight changes within the recent period in the level of the land, having caused rivers to flow into each other.
Dispersal during the Glacial period co-extensive with the world.
Being interested in the question of the mode of dispersal of these Nerites, I made the following experiment to test their powers of sustaining submersion in salt-water.
Mr. Botting Hemsley was on the point of completing his report on the oceanic dispersal of plants in connection with the Botany of the "Challenger" Expedition.
The modes of dispersal of frogs and toads, and, in truth, of the whole Batrachian class, are matters of which we are to a great extent ignorant.
The germination of the spores ensues closely upon their dispersal or maturity and is unique in many respects.
For the care and dispersal of the spores, achievement must surely be somewhat impaired.
In many cases, the capillitium contributes materially to the dispersal of the spores; in others, it doubtless contributes mechanically to the support of the peridial wall, and renders so far persistent the delicate sporangium.
As the changes approach maturity, the sporangia become jet-black, and only at last when the spores are ready fordispersal does the peridium assume its rich metallic purple tints.
The object now to be attained is not the formation of fruit alone, but likewise its speedy desiccation and the prompt dispersal of the perfected spores.
The next great dispersal was Dr Richard Mead's extensive collection, of which the pictures, coins and gems, &c.
In several cases record of the actual dispersal of the nuns has been preserved, though such dispersal lasted only for a short time.
Defective train arrangements and a nervous desire to see matters brought to a finish prevented an immediate dispersal of the party, but dinner that evening was not a social success.
When, however, he learned the utter overthrow and dispersalof the whole of the Spanish armies, he saw that nothing remained but to fall back, if possible, upon Portugal.
Their approach turned the slow dispersal to a stampede.
The dispersal of the 2/4th Battalion at Rouen is therefore the last incident to be recorded in its separate history.
It is unlikely that this dispersal of the young males is motivated either by rivalry and intolerance of larger males or by sexual drive.
The dispersal occurs in late summer when there is no breeding activity, and when food is present in greatest abundance and variety.
In the confusion of wide dispersal and independent alterations of course to avert collision, there is latitude for the most extraordinary situations.
The essential point is that the most ancient Asiatic civilizations of which we have any evidence already indicate close contact of peoples and the dispersal of cultural elements.
This Edward granted, "because it was in such a bad state, that otherwise in a short time there would follow the total destruction of the said abbey, and the dispersal of the monks.
He is almost or altogether the only bird that will eat the mistletoe berries, and on him accordingly the mistletoe depends for the dispersal of its seeds and the propagation of its mystic parasitic seedlings.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dispersal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
