Sentence examples for termite consumption from inspiring English sources

Somatic meiotic-like recombination may endow Termitomyces with agility to cope with termite consumption by maximized genetic variability.

In the first year, termite consumption of wood baits was generally significantly greater on unsprayed than on sprayed kandosol while only marginally significant on unsprayed vertisol.

Provision of permanent soil cover using crop residues in conservation agriculture (CA) is constrained by livestock grazing and termite consumption in smallholder farming systems of sub Saharan Africa.

Termite resistance results are summarized in Table 2 and Figure 2. Termite consumption of the treated wood blocks was based on visual ratings and mass loss following a standardized termite bioassay and mortality is based on visual inspection.

We therefore performed two manipulative experiments: first testing the effects of depth on termite consumption of resources, second, testing resource abandonment by termites following simulated disturbances by determining the proportion of termites remaining at disturbed resources relative to undisturbed controls.

Overall termite consumption of wood baits was similar among plots in the second year post-spray although consumption remained significantly depressed in one pair of sprayed plots in each habitat.

Van Daele et al. [ 17] likened brown bear exploitation of T. traskiana amphipods as the ecological equivalent of myrmecophagy (termite and ant consumption), which is important for some brown and black bear populations (e.g., [ 67, 68]).

Relative to paper, CS and SR have lesser carbohydrate and higher lignin content which might have resulted in higher consumption by termites to sustain themselves on these diets.

In this study, no significant differences were seen between the two particle sizes tested for leach resistance, wood consumption by eastern subterranean termites or termite mortality.

We used three sites differing in abiotic properties, where endangered digging mammals had been reintroduced, and hypothesised that: Reintroduced mammals affect resource consumption and abandonment by termites, and local factors influence termite interactions with reintroduced mammals.

A plausible scenario for the origin of termite fungiculture is the initial indiscriminate consumption of unspecialized fungi that inhabited their nest structure.