Sentence examples for range of prey from inspiring English sources
The radiolarians and foraminiferans trap a wide range of prey, including protozoans, algae, and small crustaceans, in their complex pseudopodial networks and then transport the food items along the pseudopodia to the main body of the cell for ingestion.
The coast offers many advantages to an otter such as access to breeding sites and a diverse range of prey.
The larva of C. carnea has relatively a wide range of prey acceptance (Preetha et al., 2009), which includes aphids, whiteflies, eggs of moths, and other soft-bodied insects.
Hence, the purpose of this study was to measure the initial ingestion rates of three species of bacterivorous ciliates over a wide range of prey concentrations of three human pathogenic bacteria species.
The most important in terms of abundance are the Liza ramada and Liza aurata which, however, are omnivorous and, therefore, can utilize a broad range of prey (zooplankton, zoobenthos, plants, detritus, etc).
As the immigrant spider families employ different foraging strategies than the dominant sheetweb spiders, they functionally enriched the spider fauna in crops and potentially increase the range of prey types consumed by spiders.
The Beddington-DeAngelis functional functions (p u,v =frac{m u}{a+bu+cv}) were introduced independently by Beddington [6] and DeAngelis et al. [7], which provide a better description of predator feeding over a range of prey-predator abundances [41].
We found that intake rate increased and eventually saturated with increasing perception range regardless of prey spatial distribution.
The presence of predators, particularly large top predators (apex consumers), can strongly influence the abundance, distribution and range limits of prey species in terrestrial, fresh water and marine systems (Estes et al., 2011).
This allowed us to quantify the tail movements produced in response to a range of artificial prey stimuli, and determine the ideal stimulus to evoke the prey capture response.
Such approaches to exploring IGP are critical for informing risk assessment by enabling rapid assessment of interactions for a range of potential prey species and different life stages of both the intra-guild predator and prey.
