Sentence examples for territory occupancy from inspiring English sources

Such territorial markings may have the additional advantage of indicating territory occupancy to potential intruders even when territory owners are far from the breeding site or are not involved in territorial displays (e.g. when they are hunting).

While these vocalizations probably function to advertise territory occupancy, when species should start singing is not well understood.

This risk is also perceived by buzzards so that breeding success, nest reuse and territory occupancy decrease with introduction of goshawk dummies and in the vicinity of goshawk nests [26], [31].

The first two seasons of life of sedge warbler males proved crucial to the outcomes reflected in other analyzed traits: the mean area of tall wetland vegetation increased significantly between the first and second seasons, and this pattern was similar for territory occupancy, arrival date, and fitness.

In order to avoid using the same environmental feature as response and explanatory variable, the quality of the previous-season territory was expressed in terms of territory occupancy (Sergio and Newton 2003; Zając et al. 2008a), that is, the number of years during which a given territory was occupied by a breeding male.

Annual territory re-occupancy rates are as high as 95% (Woolaver et al. 2014).

Operating about 250 miles above earth on just a few circular paths, the shuttle nonetheless made it possible to annex nearby space as territory for human occupancy.

Although many large carnivores persisting in human-dominated landscapes do not require large-scale habitat preservation, habitat selection at levels below occupancy and territory should be regarded in management and conservation strategies aiming to preserve these species in such contexts.

In short, a serious weakness of existing Plebiscitary Theories, as Brilmayer emphasizes,is that they provide no account of the normative implications of occupancy of territory.

The match between the lifetime pattern of arrival dates and the pattern of territory improvement (vegetation and occupancy) indicates that the improvement may be based on earlier arrival.

During 1985 to 2007, from early November to August, all known potential territories were visited (2 3 visits/breeding season) to search for signs of occupancy (territorial and/or courtship activity, nest arrangement/building), and to record reproductive parameters.