Sentence examples for low mammals from inspiring English sources

While this figure may seem low, mammals consume a large amount of oxygen resulting in the constitutive production of a significant amount of O2– (and H 2 O2 through O2– dismutation).

This condition occurs in invertebrates and in all but the lowest mammals.

Because of this finding, there was a low prevalence of small mammals in this area, and only a low number of rodents and insectivores were trapped during the epidemiologic investigation (Table 3).

Mature forest monoculture also supports a low abundance of small mammals in Norway (Panzacchi et al. 2010).

These small mammals have a low reproductive age and a low life expectation on the continent where they are hunted by predators.

The abundance of small mammals was remarkably low, but granivorous birds (tinamous and doves) were abundant at the study site.

To overcome periods of energetic constraint generated by diminished food supply and/or low ambient temperature, many small mammals and birds demonstrate controlled reductions in core body temperature (Tb) and metabolic rate, a phenomenon known as torpor.

The lowest relative abundance of small mammals was recorded in the meadow (18.19  ±  2.27 ind. Per 100 trap-days), with Microtus voles being the most abundant.

But so far in the study, it has the lowest mammal abundance and diversity.

We found that landscapes dominated by grass or bare ground had low reptile and small mammal diversity, while landscapes with a heterogeneous mix of grass, bare ground and trees had high species diversity and relative abundance of most species.

These correlations between BMR and physical environments in small mammals have been interpreted in a supply-demand adaptive framework, with low BMR in mammals from warm, arid environments viewed as an adaptive trait that minimizes energy requirements during unpredictable bottlenecks in food supply [8], [10].