Sentence examples for burrowing by from inspiring English sources

Burrowing by semi-fossorial rodents modifies soil properties and plant communities.

Water voles found burrowing by the canal in Oxford have led to a cycle path scheme being scrapped.

Multiple units of lithofacies Sm show dense, and sometimes deep, burrowing by insects well above water tables under ancient floodplains.

Subsequent experimental work revealed burrowing by crabs had significant effects on sediment chemistry, forest growth and productivity (Smith et al. 1991).

Burrowing by thalassinidean shrimp in modern tropical, shallow-subtidal to intertidal carbonate environments is widespread and a powerful agent of bioturbation, particularly within sandy substrates.

Deep and intense burrowing by callianassids commonly occurs along the intertidal margins of hypersaline lagoons throughout the Bahamas, such as Pigeon Creek on San Salvador Island, where the sediments of extensive sand flats are thoroughly bioturbated by Glypturus acanthochirus.

The downy young is fed in the burrow by both parents.

A long-term study of the construction of burrows by deer mice has the beginnings of an answer.

Worms with a protrusible proboscis (a tubular extension of the oral region) generally burrow by the contract anchor extend method.

A flow of water is maintained through the burrow by peristaltic contractions of the body wall muscles.

Mr. Burrow, by contrast, is called a patriot who at worst cut corners in his rush to honor veterans before they die.