Sentence examples for lack of breeding from inspiring English sources

Also, a lack of breeding grounds can be excluded, since shallow gravel banks exist at both sampling sites.

In 1921, because of the lack of breeding stallions in Italy, a crossbred Sardinian-Arabian stallion was used for the Haflinger breeding program, as well as many lower-quality purebred Haflingers.

A lack of breeding records resulted in fertility problems, and there was a significant amount of foal mortality, due to jacks being used to cover horse mares before jennies of their own kind, resulting in late-born foals that were vulnerable to cold fall and winter temperatures.

To avoid possible effects of lack of breeding sites (nestboxes), one nestbox next to the box where the females were breeding was sealed to prevent other species (e.g. flycatchers) to nest in these boxes.

The high degree of spatial fidelity can lead to severe consequences for ringed seals in the southern distribution areas (the Gulf of Finland and the Estonian coastal waters), where breeding has failed repeatedly over the last decades due to lack of breeding ice.

Faeders were identified by their lack of breeding plumage and courtship behaviour, and molecular sex determination [ 19].

Particularly troubling, the researchers said, were patterns indicating a lack of females of breeding age, which are essential if populations are to recover even with new conservation measures.

She was a proper snob, constantly griping at the younger generation (which eventually became nearly everyone) for their lack of morals, breeding and respect for family values despite her own slightly blotted copybook (one divorce, some adultery).

Nevertheless, a further hunting ban covering the whole of Iceland was called for in 2011, although the puffin's lack of recent breeding success was being blamed on a diminution in food supply rather than overharvesting.

We currently do not possess an adequate number of samples collected in the United States to determine if peregrine falcons (i.e., anatum) show a similar lack of population breeding structure south of the Canadian and U.S. border (e.g., continental U.S). and whether contemporary gene flow exists throughout their latitudinal distribution.

However, although we would not expect highly active transmission in the dry season months because of a lack of mosquito breeding sites, the impact of irrigated rice production on Culex mosquito abundance in the dry season of northern Laos remains to be determined.