Sentence examples for terrestrial nesting from inspiring English sources

Specifically, we used the cost function in MARXAN to include the ecological value of marine habitats while identifying spatial solutions for terrestrial nesting habitat reserves.

Our results suggest that including marine values in the planning process will influence marbled murrelet terrestrial reserve designs most where substantial terrestrial nesting habitat still exists, where new reserves are relatively unconstrained by pre-existing reserves, or when conservation resources only allow the protection of a small fraction of available habitat.

Similarly, the arrival of foxes in Australia may have imposed strong selection for arboreal rather than terrestrial nesting in birds and for avoidance of fox cues by edible-sized mammals.

Ground nesting species like the Savannah Sparrow may be especially vulnerable to terrestrial nest predators (e.g., rodents, mustelids), and these predators may exert similar selective pressures on nest morphology between our sites, resulting in less pronounced geographic variation in nest morphology (see also [63], [64]).

The adults can take flight to escape terrestrial predators, but nesting females in particular may be surprised by large carnivores such as bobcats.

It is likely that the Choiseul pigeon was a largely terrestrial species, feeding and nesting near the forest floor.

These opossums are primarily terrestrial, although they build nests in trees, as well as under logs, rocks, and thick leaf litter.

Group mobbing of predators also occurs commonly in cooperatively breeding birds (e.g. [77], [78]), and results of a predator exclusion experiment in the bicolored wren Campylorhynchus griseus suggested that helpers assisting breeders in defending the nest from terrestrial predators may be critical for offspring survival [66].

The name for the larger assemblage of terrestrial artiodactyls plus Cetacea nested within it is slightly more problematic.

Olpidium and Basidiobolus were further nested among terrestrial fungi with strong support from both posterior probabilities and likelihood bootstrap proportions.

During this transport time hatchlings were actively crawling around inside the bucket, a behaviour that is similar to their terrestrial movement from the nest to the sea.