Sentence examples for increasing tadpole densities from inspiring English sources

Plant diversity, species richness, biomass, and percent cover were all negatively affected by increasing tadpole densities.

Aquatic macroinvertebrates and phytoplankton communities, on the other hand, were not significantly affected by increasing tadpole densities.

In addition, periphyton biomass was shown to be facilitated by increasing tadpole densities in the lower treatment ranges.

It was hypothesized that with increasing tadpole density, macrophyte percent cover, biomass, diversity, and richness would decrease; while algae and zooplankton abundance, biomass and richness increase.

Exposure to 3 ppb has increased tadpole mortality (Storrs and Kiesecker 2004) and susceptibility to infection (Kiesecker 2002).

Predator and tadpole densities were estimated at each pond in mid May and mid June 2009 with dip net (32 cm diameter, 0.08 cm mesh size) sweeps.

Increasing densities of P. regilla tadpoles had significant effects on the vernal pool macrophyte community.

The experimental mesocosm design consisted of five tadpole density treatments, and was arranged in a 5 × 5 randomized block design.

The biotic environment was characterized as predator abundance and tadpole density.

For each population the pond name, map ID corresponding to Figure  1, sampling year, tadpole sample size (N), tadpole density, fairy shrimp density, and percentage of vegetative cover (Cover) are shown.

Given that A. femoralis tadpoles are herbivorous and nutrients in medium-sized pools are not a limiting factor (Brown et al. 2008 and references therein), we expect that the negative impact of tadpole density is rather negligible.