Sentence examples for Low reproduction from inspiring English sources

According to our model environments with low individual foraging success and high reproduction cost will favour the evolution of reproductive skew, while large variance of foraging success, and relatively low reproduction cost will favour the formation of egalitarian groups.

Smith cannot say if lead poisoning from ammunition is an overall threat to Yellowstone's golden eagle population or the cause of low reproduction.

The wandering albatross has no significant natural enemies, and this has enabled it to survive with such a low reproduction rate.

The point is illustrated by a smaller, well-known survivor of the New Zealand blitzkrieg, a small flightless bird that has a low reproduction rate but is hard to find: the kiwi.

"Given the low reproduction rates of the species, their restricted distribution, loss of habitat and the international demand for the pet trade, we can consider that unregulated harvest from the wild of species could endanger their survival," it says.

Top ranking Soricomorpha were endemic (Crocidura sicula, C. pachyura), range restricted (Sorex alpinus, Talpa caeca) and habitat specialists (Neomys fodiens, N. anomalus), and were further characterised by low reproduction, low dispersal ability, and restricted elevation range.

Previously, we have shown that Asian clams (Potamocorbula amurensis) with highest metallic body burdens have highest prevalence of disease and lowest reproduction.

And due to an ongoing recession, and the mega-costs associated with having kids, this generation has hit the record for lowest reproduction rates of any before it.

Because of the delay to first reproduction in the low adult food females, we also compared treatment effect on daily egg production after reproduction had commenced.

In such cases, a subordinate with the same potential to compete over reproduction, will tend to increase aggression in order to attain the dominant position rather than merely achieve equal reproduction portion ( = low reproductive skew).

Those studies were performed in flocks with a low intensive reproduction management (one breeding period and one lambing per year), whilst in the sheep flocks located in the North-Eastern Spain, the main reproduction management consists of three lambings in two years (three breeding periods per year).