Mites cannot colonise by walking from home to home, not just because of their low vagility, but because the outdoor environment is relatively hostile. |
In this paper, we used cluster analysis to develop domains of scale for mammalian species groups having similar vagility and developed metrics that reflect realistic species movement dynamics. |
Contraction of native old forest can limit occurrence of old forest associated species, especially species with limited vagility. |
The richness of component communities is due, in part, to the relatively high degree of vagility associated with marine fishes, or perhaps to the vagility of the parasite's intermediate hosts. |
Additionally, woodland salamanders are territorial and have relatively low vagility, making it unlikely that they can successfully migrate to more favorable habitat when the surrounding forest is harvested. |
In elasmobranchs, we hypothesize that vagility increases with body size, vagility is lowest in benthic species, higher in benthopelagic species, and highest in pelagic species. |