Thus, the more clumped the spatial pattern of the larvae, the more demanding the sampling protocol.
Secondly, when comparing numbers of individuals, social insects pose a problem due to their clumped occurrence.
Moreover, the degree of overdispersion is only slightly reduced in clumped infection, whereas this reduction is profound in the case of heterogeneity.
Egg mass recovery within sampling occasions showed a highly clumped or contagious distribution, suggesting the existence of quasi-stationary, local populations.
Sites were scored from a continuous canopy (score 1) to a highly discontinuous canopy where trees are clumped in irregular patches (score 5).
Most sand plots were comparatively tightly clumped, suggesting relatively homogeneous species composition.
Example 2 : host mortality combined with clumped infection.
Again, if the distribution of the non-masslike enhancement is suspicious, for example, focal nodular clumped, ductal or linear, biopsy would be prudent.
