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transect

verb as in cut across

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Unlike line-transects, local ecological knowledge requires building trust between local communities and researchers—some of the scientists in Braga-Periera’s group have been working with these communities for over 15 years.

Line-transects involve dividing up a habitat into lines and often walking along these lines till animal populations are encountered.

The two birds from 12 miles north of Kalabakan were taken in a net stretched across a surveyor's transect.

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

Each transect consists of 15 plots at intervals of 200 feet.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to transect, such as: crosscut, cut across, bisect, cross, intersect, and traverse.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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