Sentence examples for burrowing activities from inspiring English sources

The opening to the marsupium (pouch) in females faces backward (that is, the pouch opening is located lower on the abdomen than the pouch itself) to prevent material excavated by burrowing activities from entering the cavity.

It is not well known how fluctuations in soil temperature and moisture affect the burrowing activities of earthworms.

In consequence, our results confirmed that burrowing activities and the generation of small disturbed sediment patches influence the community structure.

and American badger (Taxidea taxus) burrowing activities are ecologically important disturbances that contribute to the heterogeneity of prairie environments.

The burrowing activities of aardvark are often associated with heuweltjies (nutrient-rich mounds differing in soil and vegetation characteristics from surrounding areas) which contribute strongly to landscape heterogeneity.

Earthworms function as ecosystem engineers in soil ecosystems because their feeding and burrowing activities fundamentally change the physical and biological characteristics of the soils they inhabit.

Thus, the model-calculated uncertainties on the bioirrigation coefficients reflect the natural variation in abundance and burrowing activity of the benthic macrofauna.

Burrowing activity by the earthworm Lumbricus terrestris increased the ratio of bacteria to fungi over the short-term within earthworm plots, introducing small-scale spatial heterogeneity associated with burrows.

Here we used a mesocosm experiment to examine the relationship of foraging and burrowing activity in two dominant New England crab species, Sesarma reticulatum and Uca pugilator, and the combined effect of inundation, on the dominant high marsh plant species Spartina patens using a 3 × 2 factorial design with three crab treatments (Sesarma, Uca, control) at two levels of inundation (low, high).

During this time burrowing activity, lizard locations and interactions were recorded.

In IEPy mice, burrowing activity decreased and recovered earlier (8 10 dpi) than open field (20 40 dpi) but remained unaltered in the EEPy group.