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n. - Unevenness in quality or performance.

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  • (I'm the first to admit that there is a certain patchiness to the collection.
  • Now, that kind of patchiness could reflect horizontal heat transport as wella s vertical, but it MUST have involved oceanic transport, not simply sea-air transport.
  • What seems to be emerging is that heterogeneity, or "patchiness", and diversity is very much more important to nature than an ecologically correct apartheid between...
  • This patchiness caters to the majority of wildlife that need all age classes to meet their needs.
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