Sentence examples for mean breeding dates from inspiring English sources
In accordance with this selection for advanced phenology, there is overwhelming evidence across many bird taxa, for earlier mean migration dates and earlier mean breeding dates at the population level.
The mean breeding arrival date was 29 April (range 28 Maych–22 May).
Scientific plant breeding dates back hardly more than 50 years.
If you have any questions about nesting sites, eggs, period of incubation, breeding habits, breeding dates, appearance of young in juvenile plumage, range, or distribution, the answers will almost certainly be here in this section.
A study of breeding dates for nine species of seabirds found in the Antarctic shows that climate change has had an impact in the southern hemisphere.
Some species are now breeding up to about 1 month earlier than they did some decades ago (i.e. the observed shift is far outside the range of observed breeding dates observed during earlier decades).
Obtaining embryonic stem cells through cloning would mean breeding human life specifically for destruction.
Breeding dates vary geographically and with local weather conditions.
This mismatch is particularly acute in long-distance migrants breeding in temperate forests: their arrival and breeding dates advanced less than the peak abundance of caterpillars [10], [11].
Increasing temperature has advanced the early phase of arrival and breeding dates, which has lead to earlier initial and median dates of departure from Finland [10].
The expected mean breeding value of a potential offspring was calculated as: mBV = MGBV s + MGBV d, where mBV is the expected breeding value of an offspring based on the parental average estimated breeding values, MGBVs is the estimated mean gamete breeding value of the sire, and MGBVd is the estimated mean gamete breeding value of the dam.
