Sentence examples for basic prey from inspiring English sources

Determining food limitation in generalist predators is difficult due to their capacity to switch to alternative prey when the basic prey becomes scarce.

At present this species is especially threatened due to the decline of its basic prey (the wild European rabbit, Oryctolagus cuniculus), fragmentation and loss of its habitat, and non-natural mortality [4].

Basic predator-prey models illustrate the primacy of consumption in structuring ecological thinking about food webs.

The basic assumption is that prey detection is only possible for prey at distances where its echo returns between the end of one pulse and the start of the next pulse.

In the basic model for toxic prey consumption, there was a significant effect of day of study, with birds rejecting more toxic prey as the experiment proceeded (B = 0.086, 95% CI 0.012 to 0.160, z = 2.280, P = 0.022), and a significant effect of diet, with more toxic prey rejected under the high-quality diet (B = 0.599, 95% CI 0.167 to 1.032, z = 2.718, P = 0.007).

Newly encountered species with the same basic characteristics (birds of prey, scavengers, ratites) were similarly banned.

To establish whether it was early growth that mediated the differences we observed between HC birds and LC birds, we added weight on D11 and its interactions with brood size treatment and diet to the basic model for toxic prey rejected.

A basic problem concerning predator-prey model is the existence and uniqueness of global positive solutions.

It is well known that the basic Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model can be written as d x 1 ( t ) d t = x 1 ( t ) ( r - a x 1 - b x 2 ( t ) ), d x 2 ( t ) d t = x 2 ( t ) ( - d + c x 1 ( t ) ), (2.1).

To Aboujaoude, the Internet is a mechanical alien, "a new type of machine... that can efficiently prey on our basic instincts".

Through the ages, the basic crocodilian plan for dispatching prey has been simple but effective: chomp down hard and hang on tight.