Sentence examples for in three colonies from inspiring English sources

At one extreme the greater shearwater nests in concentrations of 1 pair per square metre in three colonies of more than 1 million pairs, whereas the giant petrels nest in clumped but widely spaced territories that barely qualify as colonial.

In three colonies, the C120 profile changed after transplantation to either C# or a mix of C120 and C#.

We evenly distributed the colonies among the six acclimation tanks, resulting in three colonies per tank six per acclimation treatment.

A 108-bp deletion was detected in nine colonies.

A 108-bp deletion was detected in nine colonies (Figure 1F).

Some 70 cats live in four colonies on the two-mile-long island.

Dr. Crespi and his colleagues used gridded heat maps to monitor carpenter ants in six colonies.

We monitored monthly bee production in ten colonies at each of seven sites throughout Israel, and trapped pollen bi-monthly in five additional colonies at each of four of these sites.

Shick, J. M. et al. Responses to iron limitation in two colonies of Stylophora pistillata exposed to high temperature: Implications for coral bleaching.

The losses are higher than the one in five colonies reported dead earlier this year by the government after 10% of hives had been inspected.

Around 8,500 breeding pairs of northern gannets, around 2% of the world's population, nest in two colonies on rocky offshore islets in Alderney, at the southerly end of the bird's range.