Sentence examples for lower breeding from inspiring English sources

A lower breeding density at low local availability of pasture may compensate for lack of good foraging habitat.

Overall, these results suggest that population density in this endangered species of large home-range is a good indicator of environmental quality and reproductive output, and that peripheral populations occupy low-suitability areas with lower breeding success, where negative short-term population trends are more likely.

A field study on Kangaroo Island in South Australia showed that nesting pairs in areas of high human disturbance (as defined by clearing of landscape and high human activity) had lower breeding success rates.

A lower breeding value indicates better hip joint conformation as lower OFA scores indicate better hip conformation.

The dogs with lower breeding values (better hip conformation) in the upper right corner have been more intensively used to generate progeny.

The reduction was not due to a lower breeding value of the sires, but was probably associated with BRL.

Kidawa et al. (2012) showed that reduced care provided by one little auk parent (due to the GPS loggers attachment) noticeably lowered breeding success of the pair.

But then there was always a eugenic undercurrent in Tory thinking: stop the lower classes breeding.

In addition, females with a male co-twin had lower lifetime breeding success, which appeared to be mainly driven by differences in first-year survival.

Lower rearing, housing, and phenotyping requirements would substantially reduce the costs of breeding programs.

If true, we predicted inter-year similarity in nest composition for the same female to be lower between two breeding attempts in different nestboxes than between two breeding attempts in the same nestbox.