Rival gangs are secretive about their hunting grounds, competitive, and known to carry guns.
Because greater root allocation is argued to increase below-ground competitive ability, the results are consistent with kin selection.
Moreover, by concurrently inducing a decrease in the levels of abscisic acid, which normally inhibits stem elongation (Hasson and Poljakoff-Mayber 1983), it may be speculated that the resulting sound-induced morphological responses also facilitate above-ground competitive ability.
Plants increase root allocation in the presence of neighbour roots (Gersani et al. 1998, 2001; Maina et al. 2002; Falik et al. 2003; O'Brien et al. 2005; Murphy & Dudley 2007) increasing below-ground competitive ability (Gersani et al. 2001).
"The Zayed International Cricket Stadium is an excellent ground for competitive first-class cricket and, played in good weather, will be ideal preparation for the players ahead of the English season".
What's a supermarket, looking to keep the price of ground beef competitive, to do? Use the cheapest possible kind of ground beef: the much-reviled "pink slime".
As a fully licensed amateur jockey, however, Pendleton has all the formal qualifications required to take a ride in its equivalent at Cheltenham on 18 March, however limited her grounding in competitive racing might be.
Due to the number of coffee shops in the Minneapolis area, it is important that Inspirational Grounds set competitive prices for the freshly roasted coffee.
The primary mechanism of action of antidiabetic drugs like acarbose, voglibose and miglitol is grounded on competitive inhibition of several enzymes of the alpha-glucosidase group (maltase, isomaltase, sucrase, glucoamylase).
Competitive ability and mixture performance were predictable from above-ground phenotypic traits even though below-ground competition appeared to be more intense.
Competition was studied in the absence and presence of below-ground competition to test whether above-ground traits or below-ground traits had the greatest effect on competitive ability.
