Sentence examples for for small species from inspiring English sources

Dragonflies spend much of their lives underwater as larva "nymphs", and when the winged adult finally emerges its flying lifetime is comparatively short, ranging from just weeks for small species to a few years for the largest.

The use of SWD to assist in habitat restoration, especially for small species of native fish and juvenile fish, should be considered as a strategy in river restoration.

This method works well for small species, but it is not suitable for larger species due to unphysical averaging over the repulsive wall.

However, the spatial variability in the number of bumble bee observations per plot and unit time differed significantly between the three groups for small species (p<0.01) and near significantly for long-tongued species (p = 0.073).

A few systems have been developed for small species that are amenable to screening and large population studies such as crustaceans [13], zebrafish [14], [15], [16], Drosophila [17], C. elegans [18], [19], and planaria [20], [21], [22], [23], [24], [25], [26].

The system was originally designed for 9 ml human blood but we have demonstrated that much smaller volumes (1 ml whole blood) are sufficient as well and might therefore become the method of choice for small species or individuals that are difficult to handle or suffering from stress.

The researchers determined that the meat-loving species tended to survive just 6 million years, compared to 11 million years for smaller species with more balanced diets.

At one time, porbeagles were regarded as nuisances by some commercial fishers because they damaged lighter fishing gear intended for smaller species and stole hooked fish from lines.

Larger species, such as carnivorans, cetaceans, artiodactyls, primates, etc., tended to have much shorter branch lengths than for smaller species, such as bats, rodents, hedgehogs, shrews, marsupials and monotremes.

While that is fine for counting small species, it's not adequate for larger animals that move quickly because they tend to be counted multiple times during such surveys, Dr. Baum said.

There was no clear significant effect of overall elephant-induced vegetation changes on microhabitat selection except for the small species (steenbok and impala) that used vegetation modified by elephants preferentially.