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What does vagility mean?

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Noun
  1. (biology) The degree to which an organism or taxon can or does move or spread within an environment.
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The opilionids are hygrophilous, have low vagility and are primarily nocturnal and cryptic.
Contraction of native old forest can limit occurrence of old forest associated species, especially species with limited vagility.
The richness of component communities is due, in part, to the relatively high degree of vagility associated with marine fishes, or perhaps to the vagility of the parasite's intermediate hosts.
Despite this result the role of synanthropic flies in the transmission of certain helminthiases should not be discounted because of their vagility and feeding mechanisms.
In elasmobranchs, we hypothesize that vagility increases with body size, vagility is lowest in benthic species, higher in benthopelagic species, and highest in pelagic species.
A challenge to citizen-scientists is that the vagility of many organisms can complicate data collection.

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