Sentence examples for predator selection from inspiring English sources

Because shaded habitat selects for darker shells, both under thermal and predator selection, this reinforces the interpretation that overall climate warming is the driver for these changes.

In research carried out over many years and combining painstaking field work and laboratory experimentation, John Endler was able to demonstrate that the color patterns of males in the guppy populations he was studying in rivers feeding into the southern Caribbean were a consequence of a balance between mate selection and predator selection.

The study focused on vulnerability of small savannah mammals in relation to hearing, locomotion and activity on full moon nights in a continuum from more bushy to more open Cerrado physiognomies in order to understand predator selection in a southeast Brazilian savannah preserve.

In the presence of predators, selection favors fast-start performance leading to the evolution of relatively larger caudal peduncles and smaller cranial regions, whereas in the absence of predators smaller caudal peduncles and larger cranial regions are favored as they reduce drag during steady swimming.

The predators' rapid detection of prey scents suggests that, like the acoustic and visual signals studied so far, the use of olfactory signals will expose individuals to predator mediated selection pressures.

Then it is likely that a second predator causes selection to go in the same or the opposite direction (type I and II, respectively, Figure  4).

Although predator-induced selection for cryptic coloration may confound the thermally selected patterns, under conditions where these confounding effects can be excluded, allele frequency patterns are as predicted under thermal selection (Jones et al. 1977; Ozgo and Kinnison 2008; Ozgo 2011; Silvertown et al. 2011).

Consequently, predator-mediated selection from fish in the stonewort habitat may have selected for novel trait combinations involving brighter pigmentation, prudent behaviors and lower speed to avoid the attention of predators.

Nonzero selection differentials indicated that predators selected for prey body size and both absolute and size-corrected maximum swimming velocity.

The results do, however, suggest that predation might be a powerful diversifying force in this system, and that predator-mediated selection leads to a predictable outcome in the different lakes.

According to this theory, if mice had wings and could escape their usual predators, natural selection ought to favor longer life.