0 to cut across something; to divide something by cutting it: --
1 a line or narrow area along or within which measurements are taken, and items counted, etc. in scientific studies: --
The patient's pulmonary veins are not transected; rather a circular portion of the left atrium containing the pulmonary veins is left in place.
Her windpipe was completely transected in the attack.
When testing seed rain density and richness (raw number of morphospecies) for site and transect effects, we pooled pairs of seed rain traps.
Because transects are nested within site, we tested for transect effects separately for each site.
Three transects perpendicular to forest edges were established at three study sites, and six plots per transect were located 0-300 m from edges.
Samples were collected along transects established in potentially susceptible forests or outside the perimeters of nurseries.
The outer transect followed the perimeter of the island along the 5 m elevation contour.
In order to assess the a priori hypothesis that habitat type affects occupancy probability of either species, independent sections of transect were treated as sites.
