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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.
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.
A challenge to citizen-scientists is that the vagility of many organisms can complicate data collection.
Contraction of native old forest can limit occurrence of old forest associated species, especially species with limited vagility.
In this paper, we used cluster analysis to develop domains of scale for mammalian species groups having similar vagility and developed metrics that reflect realistic species movement dynamics.
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.

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