Over the next few decades, a central goal of agricultural research and policy will be to increase average regional crop yields in the face of diminished gains in genetic yield potential, likely climatic changes, decreased resource availability, and stricter environmental standards.
Offspring conceived during the post-breeding season are likely subject to decreased resource availability as lower quality forage can affect mares' ability to produce sufficient milk [27].
Here we used these polyandrous and monogamous selection lines to investigate effects of poor food quality vs. standard food quality, which could represent decreased resource availability due to habitat deterioration, on costs and benefits of adaptations and/or loss of adaptations to the contrasting selection regimes.
The agricultural context in Asia and the Pacific is diverse and undergoing rapid transformation, with increasing competition over land use and decreasing natural resource availability.
The simulation results show reduced blocking probability, increased availability satisfaction rate, decreased resource overbuild, and better resource utilization to preserve the high priority class of traffic compared to other SLA-aware algorithms and protection schemes in shared mesh optical networks.
Predator release may heighten intraspecific competition in prey by increasing prey density and decreasing per capita resource availability [52], [53], [54].
Overall, data suggest that agricultural practices associated to agricultural intensification, particularly early harvest, reduce breeding success both directly by nest destruction and indirectly through a decrease on resource availability for broods.
In our case, the increase in deleterious effects may be explained by at least three mechanisms that may act separately or synergistically: a decrease in resource availability [49], an increase in contact rate, and/or pollution by conspecifics.
Roots determine the spatial distribution of water and nutrient uptake and can cause an increase or a decrease in resource availability [ 31].
Anti-angiogenic therapy limits blood supply to tumors, but has yielded mixed results, perhaps because the decrease in resource availability may select for dispersal or cell motility (Aktipis et al. 2012).
