Sentence examples for peak predator from inspiring English sources

In Gould's example, a cicada that emerges every seventeen years and has a predator with a five-year life cycle will only face a peak predator population once every eighty-five (5 x 17) years, giving it an enormous advantage over less well-adapted cicadas.

"A cicada that emerges every seventeen years and has a predator with a five-year life cycle will only face a peak predator population once every eighty-five (5 x 17) years, giving it an enormous advantage over less well-adapted cicadas".

The pyramid is healthiest when its peak is still present and when humans aren't the only top predators around.

Of note, however, were two studies by Zarnke et al. [ 19, 20], which found that positive tularemia serology peaks in predators followed peaks in snowshoe hare populations, suggesting the possibility of a hare reservoir.

The degree of both synchrony and seasonality may be affected by such factors as temporal peaks in resources, predator satiation, advantages of intra-specific cooperation (e.g., clustering of juveniles for warmth), or intra/interspecific competition.

Predators can have a strong influence on migratory strategies, e.g. by causing migrants to avoid the predator abundance peak [28].

Southern and northern Baltic eelgrass meadows support the highest biomasses of crustacean and gastropod grazers, while intermediate predator abundance peaks in Skagerrak.

The Emperor's New Groove In an Inca-like pseudo-ancient kingdom, an arrogant teenage emperor learns a little humility when he is betrayed by a palace conniver and forced out into a real world of towering peaks and voracious predators.

Monthly line-transect censuses conducted over an annual cycle showed an increase in the detection of canopy frugivores and seed predators during the peak of flower and fruit availability in primary forest, but failed to suggest that second-growth or Eucalyptus stands provide suitable foraging habitat at any time of the year.

For predators that rely on peak performance to catch their prey, even a minor injury can be life-threatening, as an injured predator may starve to death while healing (Brown and Kotler 2004).

A familiar metaphor for nature is the pyramid of life, with large predators living at the peak because they're few in number and eat species lower on the pyramid.