Sentence examples for prey resources from inspiring English sources

We hypothesize that anurans benefit from higher compositional and configurational heterogeneity via increased prey resources and refuge habitat, and facilitation of movement.

Terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates were also assessed, both as a metric for habitat quality and as a determinant of available prey resources for juvenile salmon.

Nest-box supplementation proved to be an effective tool for rollers' conservation in areas where natural nesting sites were limited, but prey resources were available.

This finding is novel and important because optimal Lévy-flight (scale-free) search patterns for the location of sparsely and randomly distributed prey resources can emerge from conspecific avoidance.

In addition to supporting valuable aquaculture and wild-harvest industries, their populations determine the structure of benthic communities, cycling of nutrients, serve as prey resources for higher trophic levels and, in some instances, stabilize shorelines and maintain water quality.

We conclude by encouraging further exploration of contingency in antipredator behaviour and the possibility that generalist predators might indirectly influence prey resources and community properties via diverse pathways that are mediated by spatial shifts of prey species with different escape tactics.

Snowshoe hares (Lepus americanus) serve as an important herbivore and prey resource throughout their range in the boreal forest.

The analytical methodology was based on a priori knowledge of prey resource selection and predator behavior, which included spatial variables such as landscape features and nonspatial variables that included weather.

In the evolutionary dynamics, we consider ecological invasion of the community by a predator or a prey (resource) species.

If such a response is common in nature, then the removal of top predators may not only drive increased prey density, but also cause enhanced prey resource use.

It is possible therefore that myctophids also represent an important prey resource for elephant seals in the pelagic Weddell Sea ecosystems.