Sentence examples for predatory ground from inspiring English sources

We found that predatory ground beetles, spiders and some bat species (pipistrelles) group around streetlights, because they use the artificial illumination to gain an advantage while hunting their prey.

Only the functional diversity of predatory ground beetles responded to landscape structure, showing positive correlations with the proportion of Tussock Grass field margins.

Predatory ground beetles show a greater dependence on landscape structure than phytophagous species, a response that is attributed to their high mobility needed for movement between dynamically variable food resources.

Evolution toward ground-living forms in Australasia and South America may have been helped by a paucity of mammalian carnivores that would normally be predatory on ground-living birds, which may partly explain why the extreme development of such forms has not occurred in Africa.

From six groups of plants in bird exclosure and control plots, respectively, three groups were excluded from ground predatory arthropods.

We excluded birds and ground predatory arthropods from rapeseed plants in 2.5 × 1 m plots in 26 homegardens in Ethiopia, leaving the same sized control plots.

The deserted terminal provided the perfect hunting ground for predatory sex gangs.

Sir Wilfred spent 1945 to 1950 traveling in Saudi Arabia, ostensibly searching for the breeding grounds of predatory locusts, but the exploration of the Empty Quarter, the Rub al-Khali, was his secret objective.

The correct response is, of course, "duh" — but, interestingly, the filmmakers are in no rush to show us a Jew who can be trusted; rather, David justifies his devious and predatory actions on the grounds of the prejudice he faces.

Their solutions are departmentalized and never connected, and they fail to help the citizenry understand a holistic view of our society, resulting in constant turf battles over Common Core, charter schools, stand-your-ground laws, predatory lending and foreclosures, and the list goes on.

The lack of ground-based predatory native NZ mammals has been assumed to have facilitated the evolution of terrestrial locomotion and the unique burrowing behaviour of Mystacina, just as flightlessness has arisen independently many times in island birds.