Sentence examples for a decrease in parasitism from inspiring English sources

The proportion of generalist parasitoids significantly decreased with an increase in fragment size and this corresponded with a decrease in parasitism.

Analysis of sleep times of 12 mammalian species for which data also are available with respect to parasitic load indicates that a 10 hour increase in sleep time is associated with a 24-fold decrease in parasitism.

One the other hand, when a cicadas pulse occurs in the spring, it increases mouse density immediately [13], [36], followed by a decrease in recruitment and increase in parasitism, resulting in a short-lived numerical response [13].

According to Schenk et al. [ 26], this parasitism can cause a decrease in the libido especially during febrile periods and in condition of hypoxia.

The impact of Varroa on the brain transcriptome suggests a decrease in learning and memory that may result from parasitism during development.

If there is a decrease in abundance of a competitive dominant plant due to parasitism by Dodder, this has the potential to develop opportunities for competitively inferior plants.

However, varroa parasitism caused the development of viral populations and a decrease in metabolism, specifically by inhibiting protein metabolism essential to bee health.

A potential consequence of a reduction in parasitism by females that engage in aggressive host defence is an associated reduction in overall parasitism of the host population.

In many cases, GIN parasitism can be attributed to a nutritional disease, because the presence of worms usually induces a decrease in appetite, a decreased digestibility of the food and a diversion of nutrients from production sites towards the repair of tissue-damage caused by the parasites.

A decrease in height.

A steady increase in parasitism rate over the three-year course of the experiment across the entire landscape was associated with decreasing density of scales, suggesting a numerical response by the parasitoid population.