Sentence examples for species preference from inspiring English sources
The altitudinal dependence of Alnus incana and Alnus glutinosa distribution could be attributed to these species' preference to moist floodplains.
It should also be remembered that seed predators (insects, birds, mammals) differ in species preference and behavior, and also fungi (e.g. Colletotrichum sp. attacked Palicourea riparia Benth. seeds in another Neotropic Montane forest study: Myster 1997).
Basic human characteristics such as beliefs, attitudes and the angler's consumptive orientation were more meaningful predictor variables than typical angler variables such as demographics, angler experience or angler preferences (e.g. species preference).
gGiven that forage species preference is strongly shaped by overall forage composition, the nutritional consequences of competition over a particular forage species may not necessarily be significantly negative since declines in the availability of one species may result in switching to another species of lower palatability but similar nutritive content.
The distribution modelling predictably reveal the species' preference for rocky areas, with stable refugia through time in the northern mountain ranges, the Great Escarpment, as well as restricted areas of the Northern Cape Province and the Cape Fold Mountains of South Africa.
The subpopulations could also reflect biological differences of the parasite, for example vector species preference.
The models concur well with ecological knowledge on species preferences.
However, the apparent species preferences may be simply explained in terms of size selection.
In addition, a cross-sectional survey involving 52 camel herders was used to document the camel forage species preferences.
More detailed analyses have relied on comparing forage species preferences (e.g., Madhusudan 2004; Odadi et al. 2011).
Also, the inclusion of species preferences on habitat modeling diminished commission errors arising from landscape-scale underestimation of species' occurrences.
