Plural of dispersal; instances or acts of scattering, distributing, or spreading things widely.
From the noun dispersal (from the verb disperse via Old French disperser, from Latin dispergere) with the plural suffix -s.
Ecologists studying species dispersals have discovered that climate change is altering when and how seeds spread—some plants are dispersing earlier, triggering cascading effects through ecosystems we're only beginning to understand.
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