Definition of "vagile" [vagile]

• Characterized by vagility; able to move about or disperse in a given environment: a vagile animal species. (adjective)

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• "As climate change effects become more pronounced (e.g., degree-day boundaries or mean temperature isotherms shift northward), the more ecologically vagile species are likely to extend their geographic ranges northward [17]."
• "Secondary regrowth, however, has begun to offer opportunities for dispersal for a wide range of taxa, although significant movements of less vagile species such as salamanders, wildflowers, and land snails might require centuries."
• "The pikas and water shrews and chipmunks and woodrats weren’t so vagile and adventurous as reptiles and birds often are."