Sentence examples for during the overwintering from inspiring English sources

In addition to being the biomass dominant mesozooplankton species in the deep Gulf of Maine and often along the coastal shelf, C. finmarchicus has the capacity to store high quantities (>60% of its total body mass) of energy-rich lipids, which are used to sustain pre-adult stage individuals during the overwintering diapause period and prepare for subsequent molting and reproduction in late winter.

Random genetic drift due to repeated population crashes during the overwintering phase led to fixation of a single fungal genotype (in terms of its virulence), often within 100 seasons.

During the overwintering benthic phase of their life cycle, Microcystis colonies withstand long periods of darkness.

An explanation for this apparent decrease in density over the winter is that when overwintered juveniles have the same density as the non-overwintered juveniles at the start of the overwintering period, then as the fish grows during the overwinter period, the density will decrease if FZT transmission is reduced during the colder winter.

However, it is not clear from these results whether birds died during migration or during overwintering or whether the reduced return rate reflected only failure of birds to migrate back to their breeding grounds.

Thus, provision is made for the overwintering of immature insects in a state of developmental standstill.

iii) Ta that is liable to the climate change appeared to be an important external factor influencing Tb during overwintering, while the interactions of Tb with snow depth and day length were nonsignificant.

Fasting is a phenomenon that can occur naturally in the environment due to low food supply, during fish migration, overwintering or during reproduction, throughout which fish demonstrate the ability to survive without food for lengthy periods (Love 1970; Bower et al. 2009).

Welling and Palva [37] have shown that in addition to their role in cold acclimation during the growing season, CBFs are involved in the regulation of cold tolerance during overwintering in birch.

Relatively high levels of mRNA transcripts for heat shock proteins were also detected in diapause insects during overwintering [22], [23], [24] and in the larva of an Antarctic midge, Belgica antarctica [25].

Sastrugi aren't the only obstacles the nine people overwintering at the station have tackled.