Sentence examples for body mass decline from inspiring English sources
Other interpretations are that the body mass decline is a non-strategic consequence of extra flight induced by harassment from numerous peregrines, or that it is a strategic reduction of body mass made to reduce flight costs because flight time has increased for a reason unrelated to predation danger.
At the same time, fat-free body mass declines 15percentt, which in turn slows the body's metabolism -- the rate at which it converts food to energy.
However, the fact that Khyra was being home educated throughout her last critical year, when her body mass declined to its final unsustainable state, was also a major factor.
It is the vernal increase in day length that triggers the weight gain, beginning in August (at the end of the period of continuous light) and peaking in November (at the onset of continuous dark), upon which body mass declines gradually through the winter until March [59].
This is because body mass declines with age and creatinine clearance is determined irrespective of muscle mass.
Body mass declined following capture (November vs. January, Tukey's post hoc p < 0.001) for both groups, then remained stable for the rest of the study (January - April, Tukey's post hoc p > 0.845).
Whereas larger bodied individuals often experience higher relative fitness (Kingsolver et al. 2001), according to one potential mechanism underlying Bergmann's rule (allometric scaling leading to higher themoregulatory efficiency in larger bodied individuals), body mass should decline in locations where climate change leads to warming temperatures (Teplitsky and Millien 2014).
Although lean body mass may decline because of normal physiological changes associated with age (Lissner et al 1991), a loss of more than 4% per year is an independent predictor of mortality (Wallace et al 1995).
Trophy value increased less than in proportion with body mass and declined in proportion with IUCN score (figure 2).
Lean body mass significantly declined over the course of the study.
