Sentence examples for dog complex from inspiring English sources

ii) If so, have those changes affected the area covered by the prairie dog complex in the same period?

To date, no plague events, which have been the cause of prairie dog declines elsewhere, have been recorded in the Janos prairie dog complex.

The prairie dog complex has become increasingly fragmented, and their densities have shown a precipitous decline over the years, from an average density of 25 per ha in 1988 to 2 per ha in 2004.

Bird diversity was assessed with point count transects [60] from 1994 1995 in various colonies of the prairie dog complex including the 4 grassland study sites (Figure 2, Table S3), and in 2000 2004 the transects were sampled in each of the 4 grassland and 4 shrubland sites.

The late novelist and playwright Nelson Rodrigues pinpointed the day of the defeat as the source of the country's "stray-dog complex", or "the inferiority with which the Brazilian positions himself, voluntarily, in front of the rest of the world".

The last time Brazil hosted the tournament was in 1950, when Uruguay stunned the home squad, 2-1, in the final match, giving birth to what the novelist Nelson Rodrigues called Brazil's "stray-dog complex".

The novelist Nelson Rodrigues identified the moment as the source of his country's "stray-dog complex" — "the inferiority with which the Brazilian positions himself, voluntarily, in front of the rest of the world".

His literary guides were Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom!, Vargas Llosa's Conversation in a Cathedral and Günter Grass's Dog Years: "complex narratives about the relationship of storytelling to history - tragic history".

The decline of the natural vegetation at a landscape level in Janos had a severe impact on the prairie dog colony complex.

To assess the change in area occupied by prairie dogs, the entire Janos prairie dog colony complex was mapped by following the contour of each colony in 1988 on horseback, walking, or flying, using a theodolite and topographic maps (1∶250 000).

They also studied the pedigrees of all the dogs for complex patterns of inheritance.