More generally, our findings suggest that pastoralists (as well as other land or livestock managers) can minimize negative interactions and maximize positive interactions through two means: first, by minimizing competition between wild herbivores and livestock during the dry season; and second, by maintaining or increasing habitat heterogeneity.
Thus, selection to minimize competition for food can maintain both morphs in the same pond.
The oviposition vials were reared under reduced density (approximately 40 individuals) to minimize competition.
Space seeds at least 2 inches (5 cm) apart to minimize competition.
Both gardens are arranged in a grid pattern, with a 2.5×2.5 m spacing between plants; this spacing minimizes competition for above- and belowground resources, and facilitates site management in terms of mowing and weeding.
The flycatchers and tamarins have different patterns of activity, which minimizes competition for similar food sources.
"For gas to be effective in lowering emissions," Shearer told HuffPost, "we should strengthen and expand existing state renewable portfolio standards, which would help minimize the competition between gas and renewable electricity".
In order to minimize the competition between fuels and food production, researchers are focusing their efforts to the utilization of wastes and by-products as raw materials for the production of ethanol.
In both cases, horizontal gene transfer favours the functional integrity of bacterial consortia, particularly in compartmentalized environments with multidimensional genotypic spaces and many local optima (Jain 2007), minimizing bacterial competition between clones with different mutations (Perron et al. 2012b).
