Sentence examples for breeding schedule from inspiring English sources

Instead, controlling for variation in clutch initiation date (and thus, breeding schedule), the change in carotenoid levels of individuals over our two sampling points was strongly and positively tied to seasonal reproductive success (total number of fledged young) even when accounting for variation in coloration (Table 3; Figure 3).

Record keeping is extremely important in an operation where it's necessary to have a year-round calving and breeding schedule, and also to know when and what cows need to have a drying-up period prior to calving.

The gentoo, which has a circumpolar distribution, is notable for its lack of synchrony among populations, but otherwise its breeding schedule is essentially comparable to that of most other species.

All colonies show a similar breeding schedule regardless of colony location.

We have demonstrated that uniparental birds keep a tighter breeding schedule than biparentals and, for the first time under natural conditions, that they put more body heat into their clutches.

These populations display a flexible breeding schedule that corresponds with unpredictable flushes of lerps, the larvae of a psylid insect associated with the River Redgums (Eucalyptus camaldulensis) on which adults forage [33].

On top of that, he had a staff of six, to help with cleaning, feeding, breeding, scheduling, and training, and a small fleet of trucks and trailers.

They track breeding schedules so that they can get to a nest early, when the contents of the eggs are still liquid and the shells thicker and less likely to fracture.

The shifts in breeding schedules coincided with an increase in nighttime air temperatures of more than 1.2 °C (about 2 °F) from 1979 to 2008 for the September-to-March prereproductive and reproductive periods.

The team compiled 34 scientific papers that measured shifts over time in exploited species' breeding schedules, overall size, or size of specific body parts.

Of the 68 sanderling nests found in 2007 and 2008, we obtained useful data on breeding schedules of 34 clutches.