Sentence examples for low prey from inspiring English sources

The ferrets also seem to have overcome the problems of disease and low prey availability (their main food source, a type of prairie dog, is not very abundant and hibernates in the winter).

Grassland was associated with low productivity, likely reflecting low prey availability.

It has desirable qualitative features of ratio dependent form and overcomes some unexpected behaviors at low prey population level.

There is no direct evidence that under typical natural conditions with relatively low prey abundance, ciliates do select for or against certain bacterial species or groups and the discrimination may decrease at lower concentrations (Boenigk et al. 2001).

In contrast low prey biomass reduced chances of larval survival and emerging adults were small in size, had poor prey consumption rates, low fecundity, egg fertility and short life span.

Territory size depends largely on the amount of prey available and the age of the pack's pups, tending to increase in size in areas with low prey populations or when the pups reach the age of 6 months, thus having the same nutritional needs as adults.

The lowest prey concentration, while still inducing bacterial uptake, was observed in 1.3 × 103 bacteria/ml for Sh.

Based on an average polyp density of 6.2 polyps cm−2 for G. fascicularis (Wijgerde et al., 2011a), the rate of flatworm kleptoparasitism we found at the lowest prey concentration is equal to 0.6 prey cm−2 coral tissue h−1, which lies in the same order of magnitude as in situ coral feeding rates (Palardy et al., 2006; Sebens et al., 1996; Sebens et al., 1998).

Spiders were fed either large profitable prey with high kinetic energy (crickets) or small prey with low kinetic energy (flies).

Furthermore, low total prey availability corresponded with low microzooplankton biomass and the highest bacteria/phytoplankton ratio.

We report densities of spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) and African golden wolf (Canis anthus) in Enderta district in northern Ethiopia with high human and low natural prey densities.