Sentence examples for prey mortality from inspiring English sources

In California the pits dug by feeding rays cause increased prey mortality, but they also serve as receptacles of organic materials, a resource consumed by many members of the biological community.

Haemolytic activity of P. parvum and prey mortality of R. salina were also measured.

Human mobility is monitored by reconstructing site occupation intensity using zooarchaeological measures of dietary breadth and prey mortality.

No density-dependent refuge was observed for M. senhousia, whereas, at high predator density, mutual interference among crabs was evident and prey mortality was lowered.

The non-linear relation between bone destruction from feeding by the cats and the skeletal maturity of prey also has consequences for prey mortality patterns, specifically a bias against the representation of very young individuals.

Before investigating the effect of predation, the population structure and the spatial distribution of predators must be known, an important step when considering that prey mortality induced by a 1-year-old N. hombergii was about 20% higher than rates observed with adults.

Copepod naupliar grazing estimates often appear to represent an insignificant fraction of prey community mortality, despite high naupliar abundances and weight-specific ingestion rates.

Thus, the disease left a population dynamic fingerprint both in the primary host prey, through direct mortality from the disease, and indirectly in the secondary prey, through hyperpredation.

Although these visual traits and head movement strategy allow owls to enhance predator detection, they also pose sensory constraints that can be used by prey to reduce mortality.

The model is described as (2) where the predator now has a quantitative trait y, which modifies both attack rate on prey and predator mortality.

There is a trade-off for the predator between prey consumption and mortality: increasing the value of trait y increases the attack rate, f x, y), and simultaneously leads to higher predator mortality.