In the adjacent room, quarterback Ben Roethlisberger bobbed and weaved his way through questions about his off-season behavior — which earned him a four-game suspension by the N.F.L.
As pointed out in [4, 5], the existence of such relaxation oscillations implies that the coexistence of predators and prey occurs through a simple periodically alternated two-season behavior: a poor season, characterized by an almost endemic presence of the prey, alternates with a rich season, during which prey are abundant and predators are regenerated.
The column itself, like most of my weekly scriblings, was aimed at an audience that might not have been completely familiar with the political-season behavior of Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
Since both abiotic and biotic variables (e.g. ambient temperature, day length, food availability) and the social environment (e.g. the number of potential mates) often vary over the breeding season, desertion behavior, if it depends on some of these variables, should reflect seasonal variation.
However, within the cooperatives farmers remain competitors seeking their own best interest, simultaneously seeking contracts for the most profitable crops in the most desirable part of the season; this behavior can work to the detriment of the group.
Over the course of a growing season, the behavior of these three contrasting LUE definitions was strikingly dissimilar, and the degree of dissimilarity varied with contrasting crops (corn and soybean).
But the research strongly suggests that if you want to season your behavior with just the right amount of assertiveness, you can't rely on your own palate, it is important to let others taste test your behavior.
Although seasonal anorexia may lead to poor body condition in females subsequent to the reproductive season, this behavior may allow females to compensate for reduced predatory performance by conserving the energy that would be invested in unsuccessful foraging.
Bobcat space use is influenced by prey abundance, season, breeding behaviors, and intraspecific relationships (Chamberlain et al. 2003).
Aggressive encounters would therefore play an important role in PUUV transmission during the breeding season, while behaviors such as communal nesting or mutual grooming would be determinant factors in the dynamics of infection during the winter.
Because calls can be the primary mechanism of mate choice by female frogs and calling is energetically expensive [19], male frogs may devote so much time and energy to calling during the reproductive season that other behaviors, including defensive behaviors, are possibly reduced or abandoned.
