Sentence examples for raptor mortality from inspiring English sources

As for pesticides and raptor mortality, the pesticides of concern are the rodenticides, because raptors eat the poisoned rodents.

Given the link between pesticides and long-term raptor decline, how can the Audubon Society justify taking money from Monsanto whose glyphosate-based RoundUp (the most commonly used by the public and farms) is the most likely culprit for toxicity-related raptor mortality?

Monitoring raptor species, especially raptor mortality, may be an additional method of surveillance for HPAIV (H5N1).

Since pylon design and habitat had highly significant effects on raptor mortality, accounting for 82% of the variance in death rates [22], mitigation measures aimed to ameliorate the impact of power lines were implemented.

Besides actual collision with wind turbines, there are also indirect impacts that can lead to additional raptor mortality such as reproductive skipping as a result of adult mortality (Bevanger et al. 2010, Martínez-Abraín et al. 2012).

Future progress in reducing raptor mortalities on power lines will benefit from properly designed studies that generate rate estimates of mortality, address biasing factors, and include predictions concerning risk and techniques to reduce risk that can be tested in the field or laboratory.

Other authors did not find a correlation between raptor abundance and mortality at all (Garvin et al. 2011; de Lucas et al. 2008).

Electrocution on power lines is one the most important human-related causes of bird mortality worldwide, especially for raptors.

These results contributed to cooperative establishment of guidelines by the Edison Electric Institute's Avian Power Line Interaction Committee (APLIC) and the USFWS in the construction and retrofitting design of powerlines to reduce this cause of mortality in eagles and other raptors (APLIC and USFWS 2005).

There are other success stories of species that have adaptively responded to man-made habitat alterations while still avoiding increased rates of human-caused mortality, for example urban wildlife or raptors feeding on vehicle-killed prey (Tuomainen and Candolin 2011; Francis and Chadwick 2012).

In accordance, cardiomyocyte-specific inactivation of Raptor, a component of the mTOR complex 1, induces dilated C and high mortality within 6 weeks, with increases in apoptosis and autophagy.