transect

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About an hour west of Twin Lake the next day, Gilbert sat with Sam Myers, who runs a fourth-generation wheat farm that the B2H line would transect.

From Salon • Aug. 17, 2025

The 24 study plots have yielded data on biodiversity and how tree species and forests along the transect are responding to warming.

From Science Magazine • Nov. 2, 2023

Microplastics were found in higher abundances nearer land mass at the southern end of the transect and northwards towards the ice edge, recording 0.015 microplastics m-3 during both transect legs.

From Science Daily • Oct. 17, 2023

She and her colleagues then walked transect lines with ultraviolet flashlights that make the powder glow.

From National Geographic • Aug. 31, 2023

Specimens from a transect of southeastern Sonora show intergradation between Perognathus goldmani and P. artus.

From Conspecificity of two pocket mice, Perognathus goldmani and P. artus by Hall, E. Raymond (Eugene Raymond)