Sentence examples for proportion of breeding from inspiring English sources

The proportion of breeding male to female was 1 9.

The tundra-taiga wolves also had elevated levels of progesterone, a hormone produced during pregnancy, which suggests these packs have an unusually high proportion of breeding females.

The proportion of breeding females in sheep and goats (Table 3) was also found to be comparable with Njanja (1991), who reported 36.5% and 40.6% for sheep and goats, respectively.

However, the relatively early harvesting of CBWCS could destroy a significant proportion of breeding attempts of late-nesting species like corn bunting (Emberiza calandra) or yellow wagtail (Motocilla flava).

Age-specific survival and proportion of breeding females are Bernoulli processes, in the sense that each female can be considered a 'trial' with a binomial outcome (live or die, breed or fail to breed).

Colony-scale effects will depend on both colony size and the proportion of breeding pairs affected by disturbance.

Each year we uniquely colour-ringed nestlings from 89% of all successful nests (11% were inaccessible), as well as a proportion of adults, so that, on average, an equal proportion of 56% of breeding males and females were marked at the end of the breeding season.

Controlled populations tend to have a higher proportion of young, breeding pairs and litters, due to the loss of pack structure which regulates breeding [2].

The proportion of IRRI breeding lines in Pop1 was 93.59 % (73 of 78), while it was only 30.09 % in Pop4.

The influence of juvenile climate factors in explaining nesting abundances may suggest neophyte breeders are a greater proportion of the breeding population than has been recognized.

The spatial distribution of the selected sub-locations is given in Figure 1 and the number of calves recruited as a proportion of the breeding dams in each sub-location is given in Table 2.