Sentence examples for minimum body size from inspiring English sources

Dotted lines indicate the minimum body size at which predation was observed (a: 7.70 mm; b: 10.80 mm).

Next, assuming that this relationship between body size and δ15N was time-invariant, we calculated the maximum and minimum δ15N (i.e., trophic niche width) of the fish population from the maximum and minimum body size of each sampling year.

However, it can also be argued that the positive correlation between the slope and the minimum body size may be the byproduct of the positive relationship between the maximum and minimum body sizes (n = 40, r2 = 0.18, p<0.01).

For the stable isotope analysis, we selected 20 specimens per year from autumn to winter (mainly December) collections in a way that represented a nearly uniform coverage of the body size range of each sampling year (see Table S1 for their maximum and minimum body size).

One possible ecological explanation is that, if small fish (below a certain threshold) cannot eat larger preys and thus they have a narrow range of food items (i.e., no size-dependence within smaller size classes), then the slopes may decrease with decreasing minimum body size of the fish population.

In addition, the annual variations in maximum and minimum body sizes were consistent with those in the previous work [27] which covered data from 1975 to 2002 (maximum body length: n = 24, r2 = 0.23, p<0.05; minimum body length: n = 23, r2 = 0.44, p<0.001).

On the other hand, we found that the relationship between the slopes and the minimum body sizes was also significantly positive (p<0.01; Figure S1), which implies that size-dependence of trophic level becomes less clear in the presence of very small individuals.

The traits with the greatest relative importance (>0.95) are maximum body size, minimum depth, and depth range.

After accounting for maximum body size and minimum depth, species with narrower depth ranges have a 1.2% greater threat risk per 100 m narrowing of depth range.

They found that the most useful factors for determining if a particular species had an elevated risk of extinction was its maximum body size, the minimum depth of water in which it lived, and the range of depth with larger species and those that swim in shallower waters having the largest risk.

When printed at full size on 8.5 × 11 paper, the solid and hashed bands represent the minimum and maximum body sizes of the species (Fig.  5; Table  1: Best Practice 5).