Sentence examples for refuge rate from inspiring English sources

m is the prey refuge rate.

Here, K is the carrying capacity, β is the predation rate of predator, and (varepsilonin 0, 1)) is the refuge rate to prey.

One of these proposes that a balanced feeling of prospect and refuge is rated as safer than either one or the other (Loewen et al. 1993).

The towns, under the protection of their strong defenses, at first provided refuge at any rate for the rich who could leave their lands; but by degrees decay set in as trade declined and finally even the supply of food was threatened.

Are they imitative and passive, the refuge of the second rate (there's no doing a jigsaw badly, after all, merely slowly)?

We used 2-way analyses of variance for statistical analyses of the mean activity rate and refuge use of tadpoles from Bd+ and Bd− treatments for each species.

A subsample of Bd+ and Bd− tadpoles used in activity rate and refuge use trials were analyzed using real-time quantitative PCR techniques based on [34].

Neither activity rate nor refuge use differed between Bd or predator cue treatments for the remaining two species, P. regilla or R. cascadae (Table 1).

Our results are in agreement with previous work on the relationships between predation risk, refuge use and feeding rate in a range of taxa (e.g. [69], [70]; see review [71]).

To examine whether Bd infection affects amphibian predator-prey interactions, we measured two important anti-predator behaviors, activity rate and refuge use, in a series of controlled laboratory experiments testing the responses of larvae of four host species (frogs: Anaxyrus boreas, Rana aurora, Rana cascadae, Pseudacris regilla) to Bd infection.

It is natural that there is migration of prey between open habitat and refuges, and the movement rate is a constant [12].