Sentence examples for natal origin from inspiring English sources

At a large spatial scale (∼200 km) we investigated natal origin of fish and at a smaller scale (∼30 km) we assessed "site fidelity" (i.e. post-settlement dispersal until recruitment).

There was higher dispersion of δD values among H. rufipes individuals as compared to values of the other two species, which suggests that H. rufipes individuals had the most variable spatial natal origin.

The latter requires consideration of the measured size and natal origin of the tracked bluefin tuna.

Ideally, natal origin and age dependent spatial components should be incorporated in the stock assessments to facilitate more realistic biomass estimates.

We compared the distribution of scaup natal origin with the distribution of breeding population counts obtained from systematic long-term surveys.

These were used to query the tracking dataset and obtain true residence times within the high use areas as well as the natal origin of individuals.

Field observations were compared with natal origins of young-of-year and adults inferred from otolith microchemistry.

"I think there are certain things you can't learn," he muses, his accent giving a clue to his natal origins in Kent, south of London.

If natal origins are related to local scaup breeding abundance (pair counts), we would predict a statistically significant positive correlation between local breeding abundance and assigned natal origins for 1999 and 2000 respectively.

Expected distributions of natal origins were inferred from year-specific (1999 and 2000) estimates of scaup (lesser and greater (A.

As a result, 1999 pair counts were negatively correlated with assigned natal origins of hunter killed (1999 season) scaup (rho = −0.343, p<0.001).