Sentence examples for prey conditions from inspiring English sources

Completion of whole body regeneration in cydippid larvae of M. leidyi was only successful under high prey conditions and was not achieved by more than 25%.

At northern latitudes, by contrast, females synchronize their breeding attempts relative to cyclic prey conditions; as a result, annual productivity varies from 0 1.9 in Alberta, from 0 2.2 in the Yukon, and from 1.6 2.6 in Saskatchewan.

Tests under each lighting scheme were conducted under three prey conditions: none (no object), medusa (O. formosus present), and blobject (decoy medusa present).

This study highlights the possibility that, in regions where sea ice and prey conditions remain favourable, Adélie penguin numbers may expand in line with this deglaciation as additional breeding sites become exposed.

Therefore, the aims of the present study were to determine whether Australasian gannets alter their: (1) at-sea movements; and/or (2) foraging effort in response to variability in a proxy for local prey conditions.

Rescue behavior never was observed in any of the remaining 45 tests, either with live test individuals – i.e., heterocolonial ants (condition 2), heterospecific ants (condition 3), prey stimuli (condition 4), or with an ensnared motionless (chilled) nestmate (condition 5) – or an empty snare apparatus (condition 6).

Present study has been designed in view of three prey biomass conditions in nature, viz.

Although law enforcement is frequently used to protect tigers and their prey, the conditions under which enforcement is likely to be effective in recovering small populations of wild tigers are not well understood.

Habitat use by gray wolves is strongly corrolated with the abundance of prey, snow conditions, absence or low livestock densities, road densities, human presence and topography.

Hence, small passerines such as the great tit do forage actively and indeed manage to find insect prey under conditions when the light intensity is quite low, although it remains to be assessed to what extent this can help explain the general adaptive significance of marginal eyespots on butterfly wings under natural conditions.

Indeed, contrary to prey, in natural conditions sugary resources are rather "permanent", supplied by extrafloral nectaries or the honeydew produced by hemipterans attended by the workers in a favorable area [2], [22].