Sentence examples for key prey from inspiring English sources

Some key prey species like sea butterflies may be harmed.

Poaching of tigers and their key prey threatens the survival of tigers across their range.

Despite how it may seem to beachgoers, the gulls prefer fish to french fries or funnel cake, but overfishing has decimated some of their key prey options like eulachon.

We use instrumented nanoindentation to quantitatively investigate tephra from a number of sites covering the medial and distal fall-out zones as well as the dental enamel of Homo sapiens and key prey species of Late Glacial foragers.

The mosaic landscapes of Cantabria may have buffered the sharp environmental fluctuations that occurred during late MIS3 throughout Europe, providing suitable habitats for the key prey ungulate species that were routinely exploited throughout the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic.

This paper tests the hypothesis that afforestation changes predation processes in surrounding farmland, examining how the characteristics and landscape context of forest plantations affect predator (birds and mammalian carnivores) and key prey (rabbits and hares) abundances, and bird nest predation rates in Iberian cereal-steppes.

The palaeobiogeography of key prey-species can provide valuable insights into animal-human interactions, human subsistence activities and landscape use in the past.

Finally, our use of teeth in this study illustrates the potential of stable isotope analysis to trace changes in diets through time, attribute trophic relationships to extinct species where sub-fossil or museum material is available, and identify key prey-predator relationships which may need to be targeted to restore ecosystems.

There has been considerable debate regarding these alternative mechanisms with many authors concluding that alternative signals (prey-generated sounds but also vision and olfaction) are key to prey localization (Kalko and Condon, 1998; Arlettaz et al., 2001; Eklöf et al., 2002); however, some taxa do appear to rely on echolocation alone.

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In addition to loss and fragmentation of tiger habitat due to clear cutting for timber, conversion to agriculture, mining and infrastructure, Asia's rural poor are penetrating further into forests to harvest key tiger prey species such as deer and wild pigs [5], [6].