Sentence examples for resident prey from inspiring English sources

In contrast, if when it invades its defense ability is close to that of the resident prey, its defense can evolve to a higher level and that of the resident prey may suddenly cease to evolve, destabilizing the population dynamics.

In contrast, if the invading prey species has a defense ability close to that of the resident prey at the time of the invasion, the invading prey can evolve its defense to a higher level and the resident prey may suddenly cease to evolve its defense, resulting in destabilization of the population dynamics.

In this case, if the resident prey is adaptively superior (its evolution is weakly constrained and fast) and the invading prey is adaptively inferior (its evolution is strongly constrained and slow), the predator can stably use the resident prey, which is well defended but maintains a large population, whenever the abundance of the less-defended invading prey population decreases.

If the initial trait value of the second prey is close to the equilibrium trait value of the resident prey (see the initial point of trajectory c in Fig. 4a), the second prey evolves its defense to a higher level, and the resident prey evolves it defense to a much lower level, resulting in destabilization of the population dynamics (trajectory c in Fig. 4a; Fig. 4c).

In this takeover of coevolution, however, the system's population dynamics are unstable because the less-defended resident prey, whose evolution is less constrained and faster, readily evolves its defense to some level such that the predator needs to use the well-defended invading prey very often.

If the initial trait value of the invading prey is close to the equilibrium trait value of the resident prey (see the initial point of trajectory c in Fig. 3a), the defense trait of the invading prey evolves to a higher value after it invades and three species coexist stably (trajectory c in Fig. 3a; Fig. 3c).

In the worst cases, residents fall prey to loan sharks – which Liverpool Housing Trust treats in the same way as hate crime or safeguarding, says Thorndike.

They are avian, the eyes of a predator – in Silicon Valley – transplanted to a place where most camp residents are prey: to border patrols, to barbed wire, to mud and rain and disease.

Relief workers say there are reports that in some camps residents are preyed upon by organized gangs.

A few ospreys nest in Scotland, and golden eagles, buzzards, peregrine falcons, and kestrels are the most notable of resident birds of prey.

The resident birds of prey are already up – a sparrowhawk flaps past at head height and a kestrel is hovering over a ditch, its gaze fixed on a point in the grass below.