Sentence examples for brood production from inspiring English sources

This difference should be reflected in life-history traits (a negative correlation between competition or parasitism intensity and colony size, brood production and per-capita productivity).

We tested an alternative hypothesis, that the nutritional value of honeydew depends on the composition of life history traits related to survival (worker maintenance) and colony growth (brood production).

Hydrogen peroxide concentrations ≤ 1.25 mg L− 1 had no significant effect on Daphnia time to death compared to controls and no significant effect on the time to first brood production and the number of broods produced.

Unexpectedly, we found that worker survival and brood production were positively correlated across treatments, and both decreased with the ants' percentage of nitrogen mass, a proxy for body protein.

Overall, our research suggests that unlike other works on Ips spp. in the western USA that promote the desiccation of slash to minimize colonization and brood production, I. perturbatus appears regulated by the apparency and accessibility of host material.

Brood production (i.e., defined here as emergence/attacks) was also greater on the tops of logs compared to the bottoms of logs, suggesting the tops of logs are not only more attractive to I. perturbatus, but confer some advantage to brood development.

Some have praised Mike Nichols's brooding production of Harold Pinter's 1978 play, which also stars Life of Pi's Rafe Spall.

Diana Damrau stars in the firey revival of I Puritani and Vittorio Grigolo sings Werther in an atmospheric and brooding production.

West raps in a highly melodic manner, almost singing some of his verses, over the brooding production style.

Traditionally all brood fish production sites and the major production of smolts are located in western Norway, which mean that large quantities of salmon embryos and smolts are moved north.

If the colony has pollen stores, then a transition into the nursing caste occurs, if not, development is compromised (sufficient protein stores for brood food production are likely not present) and bees begin to forage earlier in life (Schulz et al. 1998; Toth et al. 2005).