Sentence examples for reduced nesting from inspiring English sources

Farmland birds more generally are under pressure from reduced nesting habitat availability, reduced quality of available nesting habitat, and reductions in both summer and winter food availability [ 20- 22, 43].

Conservation concern for the northern goshawk (Accipiter gentilis) reflects evidence that goshawks may abandon nest sites or suffer from reduced nesting success in response to some forms of timber harvest.

Pregnant mice exposed by intermittent aspiration to vehicle or diesel exhaust particles (DEP) throughout gestation either lived in normal housing or had reduced nesting materials during the last one-third of pregnancy.

In the pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca), a closely related species to the collared flycatcher, individuals have been shown to prefer to breed in the vicinity of tit nests and thereby gain fitness benefits [ 25], while great tits suffer from the proximity of pied flycatchers in terms of reduced nesting success [ 26].

While mesic areas associated with anthropogenic features of the landscape reduced nest survival (Dzialak et al. 2011a), DSR of nests was reduced when in proximity to any mesic area, likely due to the functional habitat value of the area for a wide number of avian and terrestrial predators.

Presumably, birds reduced nest visits under the threat of predation [76], [77].

We also expected greater changes in the mid-story and canopy and interior nesting guilds than for the ground nesting guild because the former have reduced nest site availability in canopy-removing disturbance events and when interior forest is perforated by disturbance.

The reduced nest fidelity and spawn participation by mature transgenic parr relative to nontransgenic parr may be driven by transgene-induced hormonal changes.

We used the inner training set to train reduced nested Cox models with decreasing numbers of variables from n-1 variables to one variable.

The performance of our reduced nested models converges at a value close to 0.757 if we include both molecular and clinico-pathological covariates and drops to 0.651 if we exclude the clinico-pathological variables.

All sides agreed that diversionary feeding (scattering dead chicks on the moorlands – room service for harriers) was a good way to reduce nesting hen harriers' predation of grouse.