Sentence examples for secondary consumers from inspiring English sources

Some molluscs are carnivorous, and are secondary consumers in their aquatic ecosystems (Poutiers, 1995).

These consumers dig pits or make depressions in which detritus accumulates, attracting secondary consumers.

Small pelagic fishes are secondary consumers, which feed on zooplankton and serve as foraging species for large, carnivorous fishes.

Overall, such differences in the quantity and quality of OM exported by land may help explain variation in terrestrial support of aquatic secondary consumers.

Complementary experimental studies should be performed to determine the ability of primary and secondary consumers to assimilate MAAs and convert these compounds.

Such meadows could deliver substantial benefits for functional biodiversity, including sustenance to many secondary consumers dependent on field invertebrates as staple food.

For example, a typical food chain in a grassland might be grass (producer) → mouse (primary consumer) → snake (secondary consumer) → hawk (tertiary consumer).

In the paper ecological interaction chains of the type resource – producer – primary user – secondary consumer are considered.

The enactment speaks pervasively of threatening, coercing, or restraining any person; the proviso differentiates only between modes of expression, not between types of secondary consumer picketing.

The Court does not consider itself compelled by these remarks to conclude that the Conference Committee meant to prohibit all secondary consumer picketing.

Senator Goldwater's own definition of what he meant by a secondary consumer boycott is even more clearly narrow in scope: 'A secondary consumer, or customer, boycott involves the refusal of consumers or customers to buy the products or services of one employer in order to force him to stop doing pubiness with another employer.' 105 Cong.Rec.