Relative dominance of the heterotrophic community by primary consumers decreased, while predatory secondary and higher-order consumers increased with increasing aggregation age.
Now the country's Muslim minority is the primary target of the predatory Christian and animist 'anti-balaka' militias that were originally formed as local self-defense groups.
We also rule out predatory attacks as the primary cause of the lesions, because similar large predators (tyrannosaurid theropods) were present in the habitats for both genera, and we would thus expect similar patterns of osteological abnormalities in both.
The New York City law, which takes effect next Thursday, poses even fewer worries because its primary penalty is to exclude anyone involved in predatory lending from doing business with the city for three years.
Biomass and number of trophic levels increased during the spring bloom as elevated primary production allowed for a higher abundance of predatory species.
Crayfish took in most of their carbon from invertebrates and less from primary producers and had no effect on biomass of predatory invertebrates which mainly consisted of active swimmers.
Corruption is so rife, and the Afghan government so predatory, that American officials believe that it is one of the primary factors driving Afghans into the arms of the Taliban insurgency.
Our results show that, for the coastal marine systems we examined, extinctions are reducing the number of predatory species and secondary consumers while invasions are greatly increasing the number of primary filter feeders, detritivores, deposit feeders, and other primary consumers.
Although our primary predictions for genital divergence between fragmented and unfragmented tidal creeks rest on differences in predatory fish density, a suite of other environmental factors, including salinity, turbidity, pH, and dissolved oxygen, may also differ between fragmentation regimes and could contribute to genital divergence.
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