Sentence examples for spawning resources from inspiring English sources

In the case of return-migrating salmon, disease-associated prespawn mortality may have a lower impact on population variance in years with high returns as density-dependent competition for spawning resources may counter impacts of disease.

Spawn resources (eggs, milt, and spawning adults) at these events are available to coastal predators and scavengers, including terrestrial species.

Relative to both deep time (e.g., [ 24]) and short term baselines (e.g., [ 22, 40, 41]), and regardless of the drivers (e.g., industrial harvest, climate change, etc)., reduced Pacific herring abundance equates directly with decreased spawning adults, eggs and milt with consequences that include the subsequent reduction of herring spawn resources for coastal consumers, including black bears.

As a potential indicator for resource reallocation from growth to reproduction, we estimated the average reproductive investment of all the females captured during the spawning season as the proportional volume of egg per female.

Intensification of oxygen-poor and acidic conditions could severely impact marine communities e.g. by (i) shrinking the available habitat, (ii) diminishing the capacity of plankton to develop calcium carbonate skeletons, (iii) eliminating species from metazoans to fish predators or (iv) hampering the spawning success of fish resources [5], [7], [11] [16].

As suggested, a strict and genetically programmed hormonal regulation of seasonal variations in metabolic rate to preserve energy resources for spawning takes place.

Therefore, rather than seeing this as a competition for limited resources, potentially spawning a short-term feeding frenzy on the nature of these relationships, I view it as a call for better appreciation for how existing quality of life evaluations point to appropriate treatment directions and patient satisfaction with care.

"I could not support a project that risks one resource that we know is a given and that is the world's richest spawning grounds, over another resource," she said, referring to the millions of wild salmon that spawn in those waters.

Many of these conflicts were essentially spawned by competition for resources (e.g. land, cattle, education and lucrative political and professional positions) and exacerbated by a complex interplay of religion, ethnicity, politics and socio-economic disparities.

The fungus is difficult to traverse, provides invisibility for the enemy, provides few resources, and spawns "mindworms" that attack population centres and military units by neurally parasitising them.

As a cross-boundary resource subsidy, spawning salmon can strongly affect consumer and ecosystem ecology.