Sentence examples for adjacent breeding from inspiring English sources

We used an extensive drift fence array to capture most of the surface-active salamanders over 2 years at two adjacent breeding ponds in a natural prairie ecosystem.

To elucidate amphibian spatial habitat requirements, we monitored gray treefrog (Hyla versicolor) movements through terrestrial habitat adjacent to breeding ponds using radiotelemetry and mark recapture along transects of artificial refugia.

The data illustrate the importance of habitat directly adjacent to breeding sites for males, and indicate that habitat loss resulting in small patches may have a greater negative impact on females than males, and consequently may have disproportionately large effects on population persistence.

The aim of this study was to investigate the relative importance of the structure of the plantation and composition of adjacent habitats for breeding birds in 41 SRCs (mean size±S.E.=9.4±1.6 ha).

Consequently, lentic-breeding amphibians may be threatened to varying degrees in human-altered landscapes featuring loss of breeding wetlands, adjacent non-breeding forested habitats, and landscape connectivity (Gibbs 2000).

Nesting females typically demonstrate philopatry to nesting areas, and both males and females can be philopatric to breeding areas adjacent to a nesting beach [16].

After breeding, adults venture into adjacent upland areas to forage.

In the tropics, coral reefs can be found adjacent to islands with large populations of breeding seabirds, and could be potentially affected by local nutrient enrichment due to the transport of seabird-derived nutrients in surrounding waters.

After metamorphosis, young frogs migrate up to 2 km from breeding wetlands to adult habitat in adjacent woods (Berven and Grudzien 1990).

Managed barrens that are adjacent to remnant barrens, rather than adjacent to woodland habitats, have the highest potential for conserving barrens breeding birds.

This study investigated how breeding birds on retention cuts and in adjacent forest responded to a continuous tree retention gradient on retention cuts varying from <1% to 25%.