In a bird version of "MasterChef," if you will, the males of the species compete to construct the finest nest.
However, we assume the coarse and fine grids nested since it will simplify our analysis substantially.
Reproductive success is a critical factor affecting avian demographics and can be influenced by many factors including nesting chronology, predation risk, and fine-scale nest site selection.
The finest mesoscale nest is coupled with a sequence of microscale nests with finer resolution in both the horizontal and the vertical.
For nesting, both lateral and vertical boundary conditions are treated via implicit relaxation in buffer zones where all fields are relaxed to those obtained from the finest mesoscale nest.
We stuck to back roads, and I got to contemplate the prairie pothole region, a forty-to-sixty-mile-wide band of elevated glacial remnant, pocked with thousands of small ponds that make North Dakota the home of the finest waterfowl-nesting habitat on the continent.
And what fine little love nests they were: Force open a window of the Takanassee Hotel in Fleischmanns, slip inside, wonder about the detritus left behind — a cook's big white apron, a few pots.
Our covariates included sampling year (rescaled so that 1991 was the intercept), fed vs. unfed, hunt area (HA) and herd unit (HU), where hunt areas (fine scale) were nested within herd units (broad scale).
A single puts Chanderpaul on strike, and he eases four to fine leg with a nest swivel-pull shot.
Using a nest of fine pipes that resemble a large wire coil, the engineers have managed to get round this fatal problem that would normally follow from such rapid cooling of the moisture in atmospheric air.
