Sentence examples for prey life from inspiring English sources

Predation risk can have a number of conflicting effects on prey life history.

However, the key prey item C. finmarchicus is already in diapause by October [53], and the prey life cycle is not included in the model.

The prey life history in our experimental system is similar to the prey strategy presented in model 1 of, in which a single prey species transitions between a vulnerable and invulnerable class, both of which may reproduce.

We built upon the data set described in Preisser et al. (2005; see this reference for detailed information on search criteria); briefly, we searched for published literature that experimentally assessed the nonconsumptive effect of predators on various prey life-history indices.

Relationships between prey life-cycles and the extent, nature and timing of seal and seabird predation in the Scotia Sea.

Parasites of diverse taxa have evolved predator-prey life cycles and any of them could be possible candidates for a mutualism.

For parasites with a predator-prey life cycle, the completion of the life cycle often depends on consumption of parasitized prey by the predator.

Parasites with a predator-prey life cycle constitute a substantial proportion of the parasite community of carnivores and therefore these might have a more significant role in the ecology of predators.

­WAAAANT!" No, it would probably make a coolly intelligent remark about what it means "to prey on life forever and not possess it, / As rock-hollows, tide after tide, / Glassily strand the sea".

In an odd way, Leviston's poem also leads on to one of Wilbur's, his vampire poem, "The Undead", which closes: "Think how sad it must be / To thirst always for a scorned elixir, / The salt quotidian blood // Which, if mistrusted, has no savor; / To prey on life forever and not possess it, / As rock-hollows, tide after tide, / Glassily strand the sea".

The risks associated with predation vary with both time and space and will change throughout a prey's life [5].