Sentence examples for between scale and predator from inspiring English sources

More recently we determined that the size differential between scale and predator allows the pest to infest Cycas plants in locations that are inaccessible to the predator.

These changes are not necessarily similar between species and may cause mismatches between prey and predator.

They suggest that differential dispersal abilities could alter functional relationships between prey and predator, notably by a lack of natural predators.

However, empirical patterns of association between prey and predator diversity have shown inconsistent results [ 15- 18].

We discuss the relevance of these findings for defining ecological landscapes, understanding predator prey interactions at multiple spatial scales, and conserving predator and prey populations in fragmented landscapes.

"Between the storm and predator problems, there were not many chicks last year," Mr. Pover said.

An adaptive management approach would have provided more information on the efficacy of predator trapping and increased understanding of the inter-relationships between kaki survival and predator abundance.

The positive relationship between stand area and predator density in willow plantations suggest, however, that increased plantation size may have a positive effect on the predator populations.

Torres et al. [55] found prey items to be uninformative for foraging bottlenose dolphins in the Florida keys, but used intermittent trawls to describe the prey community potentially leading to a scale mismatch between sampling of prey and predator foraging behavior.

This latest addition to our understanding of the interplay between the scale pest and beetle predator contributes to the study of spatial heterogeneity and biological control efforts.

Thus, predation rates were influenced by the combined effects of refugia (fine scale), variation in prey behavior (broad scale), and detection by predators (both scales).