Sentence examples for decrease in predators from inspiring English sources

Predator control is based on the assumption that a decrease in predators will increase prey, or at least reduce the overall losses of prey [9].

The average crab experienced a greater decrease in predation risk when the predator was small or slow moving.

More modern shepherds used guns, traps, and poisons to kill predators, causing significant decreases in predator populations.

Microcosm experiments revealed that decreases in predator abundance were followed by prey rapidly abandoning defenses, via either evolution (Becks et al. 2010) or phenotypic plasticity (Verschoor et al. 2004).

Consequently, the decrease in large predator populations due to logging and hunting during non-masting years implies that large predator effects on tree survival may decrease in relative importance.

These predictions are similar to those made for (2), except that we now expect all helping behaviours to decrease in the predator treatments, and the expected difference between large and medium helpers runs opposite from (2).

As the mechanisms maintaining dipterocarp diversity in logged forest areas may depend on the size of seed predators [26], [30], the decrease in large seed predator populations may affect their impact on dipterocarp survival.

A temperature-defined regime shift occurred in the 1970s in the southern Indian Ocean, with simultaneous severe decreases in many predator populations.

The second pattern was an increase in gene expression during coexistence with the predators and a decrease in gene expression when the predators were removed (Fig. 3a).

The generally positive effects of insecticides on the surface-active Collembola are probably indirect and may result from a corresponding decrease in the abundance of their predators, which include carabid and staphylinid beetles [34].

One pattern was a decrease in gene expression during coexistence with predators and an increase in gene expression when the predators were removed.