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We also found no significant relationship between infant mortality rate and the average monthly values of either rainfall (Fig. 3a) or an index of the availability of fruit (Pearson correlation, R2 = 0.002, n = 12, p = 0.88).

The observed chl a in February around the aquafarm is considered to be an index of the food availability for scallop spawners and is used for yearly predictions of spat density (Baba et al. [2009]).

In fact, all indices of the availability and use of heroin, including deaths due to heroin overdose, rose steadily during the study period, 41 as did the number of heroin dependent people being treated by methadone maintenance.

Inclusion of ΨS as an index of soil water availability into the analysis models changed the outcome radically: the effect of the humidification treatment became – with one exception – insignificant for all gas exchange and water relations characteristics (Table  4).

We defined an index of fruit availability as "high" when it was higher than the median and as "low" when it was lower than that.

For the analyses, we therefore used percentage of trees fruiting as an index of fruit availability.> -wrap-foot> diametereter at breast height Urine samples were generally collected once a week from four males in each group: alpha and beta males and two low-ranking males as 'controls' (males which do not mate-guard females extensively).

Wildebeest move at a weekly time step across the landscape, and their movements and local population growth are determined by a quantity we call Z, an index of resource availability.

We used an index of geographic availability of orthopaedic surgeons that incorporates travel distances and will examine geographic variation in utilisation rates across 105 smaller health planning areas.

Palmitate and glycerol kinetics were expressed in micromoles per kilogram of fat mass per minute to provide an index of adipose tissue lipolytic activity in relation to the amount of endogenous fat stores and in micromoles per kilogram of FFM per minute to provide an index of FFA availability for lean tissues that use fatty acids for fuel.

In the first configuration, we modeled temporal variation in harvest rates by regressing on an index of natural food availability and an index of hunting effort (the number of estimated bear hunters; [20]); additional harvest vulnerability parameters were estimated in the first four years since these covariates were not available for 1980 1983.

An index of prey availability will only be useful if it can account for the breadth and flexibility of California least tern diets across the range of the subspecies.