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
These historical accounts of the landscape were "an extraordinary difference" from what Matthews observed during forest transect walks in Monte Pisano in 2014.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024
Several trails, including the ADA-accessible Centennial Fields Park Trail, transect the environment.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 7, 2023
It’s a dangerous journey for a small songbird only weighing about 30 grams, and if a hurricane happens to transect that migration, some of those birds may never make it.
From National Geographic • Jul. 28, 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)
Vocabulary lists containing transect
Unit 1: Ecological Systems
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