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What does vagility mean?

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Noun
  1. (biology) The degree to which an organism or taxon can or does move or spread within an environment.
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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.

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