How To Use Predation In A Sentence
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Young keeps a level tone throughout, tempering the tale of depredation with a dry wit.
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Dense vegetation may conceal the nests and reduce the risk of predation.
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Some of these isolated populations are subject to predation, others to starvation, flooding, severe winters or summer drought.
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To examine possible effects of predators on clam growth, I first compared variation in clam growth rate among habitats with different predation pressure, and between predator-exclusion cages and uncaged controls.
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What are we going to do to defend ourselves from illegal civil liberties depredations?
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I report here an observation of attempted predation by a tayra in the western Amazon, in Acre, Brazil.
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However, egg predation also had a large impact on geese and this effect was highly variable according to the abundance of another prey, lemmings.
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However, an economic model that does not include the creation of wealth is about as valuable as an ecological model that does not include reproduction or predation.
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MacGregor --- I carena wha kens it --- And Rob had soon a gallant band; and as it grieved him (he said) to see sic hership and waste and depredation to the south o 'the Hieland line, why, if ony heritor or farmer wad pay him four punds Scots out of each hundred punds of valued rent, whilk was doubtless a moderate consideration, Rob engaged to keep them scaithless;
Rob Roy
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Rat predation had reduced one of the largest breeding colonies of Xantus murrelets to just a few pairs, earning the seabird a potential spot on the federal Endangered Species List.
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It is believed that predation by non-native red foxes was the primary reason for the extinction of the dusky pademelon on mainland Australia.
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These high elevation communities are naturally subject to increased atmospheric moisture, cooler temperatures, and higher winds, but also now suffer from the effects of acid rain deposition, which tend to be exacerbated in high elevation communities, and from the depredations of an introduced homopteran insect, the wooly adelgid (Adelges spp.).
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
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Forget the background of the two, forget their previous depredations and concentrate only on the trial and its end result.
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We spend billions each year in futile attempts to prevent floodplains from flooding, barrier islands from migrating, chaparral from burning, and predators from predation.
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The guilds and unions in the American film industry are still strong, and have the clout (in theory) to protect their workers against the depredations of management, and against their own love of the Job.
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However, the Department of Fish and Game does issue what are known as depredation permits which allows the killing of these animals under certain conditions, usually when they pose a danger to livestock or people.
Cheri Shankar: Mountan Lion Cub Poses Imminent Danger?
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That, we respectfully submit, relates directly to a depredation upon the exchequer of the Commonwealth.
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Choosing extensively forested landscapes should lead to reduced levels of nest predation and brood parasitism for songbirds.
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More visits to the area during the following week revealed no sign of immature bokmakieries, which suggests the probability of predation.
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No turnstone nests were found in 1999, apparently because of very high predation pressure from Arctic foxes.
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In eutrophic Lake Hiidenvesi, we studied the possibility that water quality indirectly affects mysids by forcing them to habitats where they are vulnerable to fish predation.
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Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink.
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However, this crop destruction was incidental to the solenodon's predation on insects beneath the soil.
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According to our results, predation on zooplankton appears to continue beyond larval life stages in the Richibucto Estuary.
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They really only use their strong electric organ discharges for predation and defensive purposes.
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If the hazard ratio is larger than one, then an increment increase in the variable causes an increase in the risk of predation.
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The deeper problems in the art market have to do with the depredations of the auction houses.
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Tardigrades, close relatives of Onychophora and Arthropoda, possess ornamented armored exoskeletons in high predation marine environments.
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Loss of beachfront habitat and predation by domestic cats and introduced red foxes pushed the least tern to the brink of extinction.
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The trouble began in the spring of 1846, when some student depredations were traced to a small log house situated in the depths of what was then known as the Black Forest, the deep wood which extended far east of the Campus.
The University of Michigan
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Some trait must provide them with immunity from predation.
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He is a laicized priest from Fall River, Massachusetts, whose serial predations were on the scale of Geoghan's.
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Whatever the depredations of the Bush kakistocracy, we are quite a ways (though not as far as we used to be) from a fascist dictatorship.
Michelle Goldberg: The F-Word
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Of course, his method of limiting the depredations of crime upon society differed dramatically from ours.
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The insurrectionists that we have oft complained of late have grown more bold in their depredations, attacking ever nearer to our palace.
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In relatively benign environments, predation is the dominant biological interaction that structures communities. 2.
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(I agree with Ariel Levy that imitating men's drinking and sexual predation is a rather impoverished view of liberation.)
Michael Kimmel: Men -- and Women -- at Yale
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-- Captain Waverley, I must request your favourable construction of her grief, which may, or ought to proceed, solely from seeing her father's estate exposed to spulzie and depredation from common thieves and sorners, while we are not allowed to keep half a score of muskets, whether for defence or rescue. '
Waverley — Complete
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For some seabirds, predation by gulls on host eggs or chicks may impose a more significant limitation on reproductive success and that has resulted in culling programs at several seabird colonies.
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These high elevation communities are naturally subject to increased atmospheric moisture, cooler temperatures, and higher winds, but also now suffer from the effects of acid rain deposition, which tend to be exacerbated in high elevation communities, and from the depredations of an introduced homopteran insect, the wooly adelgid (Adelges spp.).
Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
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Chub are stream fish, and like other soft-rayed species, are common in more turbulent riffles and races to which they are displaced by predation risk.
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We found evidence indicating that increased movement rates may increase the risk of predation for adult birds but not juveniles.
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He reminded his frantically puffing audience that smoking was a well-known antidote to the predations of the great horse fly, or cleg.
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Livestock can be insured against leopard depredations, so losses can be compensated.
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To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery.
Ducks, dragons, and dictionaries
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As the climate continues to warm in the Arctic and the sea ice melts earlier in the summer, the frequency of such intraspecific predation may increase.
Polar Bear Eats Cub: Cannibalism May Be On The Rise (GRAPHIC PHOTOS)
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Much of the region's environmental depredation is a result of poor planning.
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Then the victims of our depredations worldwide need to believe and participate in the making of a better world for them and us.
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We of the civilized world are not apt to attach much credit to the latter species of exploits; but horse-stealing is well-known as an avenue to distinction on the prairies, and the other kind of depredation is esteemed equally meritorious.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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We responded to losses by jackal predation by changing to an indigenous breed (Damaras flock better than Dorpers and resist predators better), bringing heavily pregnant ewes in to a safe camp, and kraaling our animals at night.
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I have a lot of mixed feelings, but mostly, I would like to see some serious depredation on the wolves - to get them back down to the original numbers FWS promised to maintain - not ten times more than that.
Wolfing One Down...
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Virtually every conservation body in the land controls foxes to stop predation of a range of birds from terns to avocets to grey partridges.
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We could end up, like the European countries, divided into several warring "confederacies," each too weak to defend itself against the depredations of the European powers.
City Journal
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These observations left unresolved the role of chronic sublethal stress or biological factors, e.g., competition and predation, in setting distribution limits in the rocky intertidal zone.
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By confining small fish to living in suboptimal foraging habitat, predation may have important sublethal effects on populations.
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Predation is even trickier to uncover when goods are sold together.
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In many systems skeletal armor has been correlated with the level or type of predation pressure in the environment.
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M'Callum's, in which there was no bed-covering but the skins of wild beasts; during the contest the major was killed; but after it was over, the colonel retired to Jamaica, with much wealth, acquired by depredation.
A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade
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However, they often know very little about these earlier doctrines, which are used by perpetrators to justify their criminal predations.
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Similarly, all genera have some sort of anterior conoid like structure associated with predation or intracellular insertion in the Apicomplexa.
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I am hearing bits and pieces blaming the increasing bear population for the decrease in deer via fawn depredation but I'm not necessarily convinced.
Success rate in WV in 2009
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Will they cease their depredations against the environment when it is so irreversibly compromised that even their own children begin to sicken and die?
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The caterpillars harness the plant toxins and use them as a natural defence against predation.
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Some are accomplished leapers and bounders, avoiding predation by outdistancing the predator.
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It would therefore appear that the ensuring of successful pollination must override the importance of losses due to seed predation.
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Here, the computerists feel safe from the predations of any nearby librarians or underfunded fellows.
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Depredations upon the coffle by the inhabitants — Continued attacks from banditti as far as the Ba Woolima river — Difficulties in passing it — temporary bridge made by the natives. —
The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
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Most of their predation of deer is on fawns, although several members of a pack could bring down an adult.
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When large fish were excluded, predatory insects and fish fry were freed from predation and more effectively controlled chironomid populations feeding on algae.
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It is important to mention - and vitally important to mention - that all these estimates of losses are based on the farmers' perceptions, so the data are unverified as to the extent of fox predation in the first place.
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The line between vigorous price competition and illegal predation may be a fine one.
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Second, although an evolutionary hypothesis of dulosis based on predation can account for brood capture and the rearing of excess pupae, the important issue of non-independent colony foundation must also be addressed.
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During this trial, escapes, and/or predation of click beetles caught in the pitfall traps was common, but was not observed in the pheromone traps.
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To minimize the risk of predation, which was mainly by stoats, Mustela erminea, and polecats, Mustela putorius, nest visits were kept to a minimum.
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Studies have shown that predation and cowbird parasitism decreases as nests are located farther away from edges and towards forest interiors.
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Holding open the prospect of incestuous marriage would devastate family life by, effectively, legitimizing sexual predation within it.
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The depredations of philistine governments and ignorant, self-seeking bureaucrats are not the sole cause of the changes I have witnessed in academic literary studies.
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The new dates also support the suggestion made by Dutch paleontologist Paul Sondaar more than a decade ago that the extinction of pygmy stegodon on Flores ca. 900,000 years ago was the result of human predation.
First Mariners
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It seems that the prettiest baby fish like the shubunkins and red and white fish die off most of the time while the duller fish survive predation.
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Morphological similarities placing D. valgum in the same subgenus with non-predatory dung-feeding species suggest a major and potentially rapid behavioural shift from coprophagy to predation.
Archive 2009-01-01
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I am not aware of any specific work on bona fide leaf- or stick-like insects, but a 1993 paper on two differently colored forms of the phasmid Timema cristinae, which are more or less cryptic depending on the vegetation they reside on, clearly showed differential predation against the less cryptic morph 3.
Behe and bugs: Genesis of a Creationist canard? - The Panda's Thumb
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Nonetheless, Yamal Nenets are currently showing signs of stress adapting to the recent barrage of simultaneous changes in their homeland – from health and demography [3] to questions of land tenure [4] and increasingly severe "overgrazing", predation, and poaching on reindeer pastures [5].
Climate change impacts on the Yamal Nenets of northwest Siberia
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In South India, roving bands of dacoits, carrying out their traditional depredations on the weak and unprotected, had been a part of the rural landscape for centuries.
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This neatly capsulizes the administration's ongoing depredations in Colombia, all under the shady banner of the war on drugs.
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The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel.
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Another way is to control deer depredations passively, with deer-proof fencing or the planting of ornamental plants unpalatable to deer.
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As is typical of passerine birds, nearly all mortality was the result of predation, and starvation was rare.
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Later on, the predations of oil and gas prospecting and mining would add to the impact of agriculture and hydropower.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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They are highly adapted for cursorial life, their offspring are vulnerable to predation, and adequate den sites are limited.
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Predation is known to be an important source of mortality in eider ducklings, particularly during the first three weeks after hatch.
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As would be assumed with juvenile or young fish, some predation could occur from piscivorous birds.
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The traditional cursorial predator hypothesis suggests that the ancestors of birds were active ground-dwelling animals that used their arms in predation.
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An organism - say, a vole - that faces predation has, say, two alternative strategies - to dig and hide or to flee its predators.
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At this period, the tories on Lynch's creek, in the neighbourhood of M'Callum's ferry, had already begun their murders and depredations.
A Sketch of the life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion and a history of his brigade
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Once poison has temporarily reduced rat populations to almost zero, predation by barn owls can slow the recovery.
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But I could not understand why Moutan peonies had survived the predations of Chinese peasants for thousands of years and are only now in real danger of total destruction.
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Most southern towns have suffered from the reckless depredation of the armed gang.
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Predators use scent to locate their prey, and prey animals often alter their behavior in response to predation risk.
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For example, in sticklebacks, a large fish distracts predator attention from the smaller ones, and an individual may decrease its risk of predation by locating close to a more preferred prey.
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Obviously no species could withstand such depredations for long, although the present losses of habitat may be considered even more serious.
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I knew that the governor had acted under pressure from citizens of Onitsha, particularly the market women who had suffered extensive loss of property and life from the thieves' predations.
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Two of the three planted last year look a bit sad - the predations of the hens and various sheep haven't helped.
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Predation by an abundance of medusae on zooplankton and ichthyoplankton could affect the North Sea ecosystem through top-down and bottom-up mechanisms.
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There is an old theory which says that populations which are the most under-privileged and suffer most from the depredations of poverty are most likely to see war against an external enemy as an antidote and a release.
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They are subject to intense predation, and maternal defense is their primary means of protection.
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Into this special domain went winter coats and wool items to be protected against the depredations of moths, silver fish, and their ilk.
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And this legal reality doubtless enabled accusers to continue with their predations.
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Virtually every conservation body in the land controls foxes to stop predation of a range of birds from terns to avocets to grey partridges.
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The east wing had crumbled, taken on the appearance of a Victorian folly, its crenellations the result of depredations of rain and wind.
A TROUT IN THE MILK
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This became a necessity in most of the world's wine regions at the end of the 19th century to counter the predations of the phylloxera louse, native to America and to which most American vine species had therefore developed resistance.
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Though you are no doubt loathe to abandon your fortune to the predations of robbers you can take heart that if they violate your sanctum they will likely pay for it with their lives.
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We find a parallel in the old days in Shanghai, before the depredations of the American hetairai had aroused the hostility of the American judge, in 1907-8.
Satyricon
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But it does endure its share of predation by man.
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Predation intensity on geese was closely related to the lemming cycle, a consequence of an indirect interaction between lemming and geese via shared predators.
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Hayek may have underestimated the power of the democratic impulse to restrain the more extreme forms of government depredation, but Hayek never put any sort of time frame on his predictions.
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Other research from the organisation highlights that millions of birds die each year because of cat predations, starvation and the weak and sickly condition of hatchlings.
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He rates predation by feral cats and foxes as the single biggest threat to native animals in the Territory.
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Much of the region's environmental depredation is a result of poor planning.
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Of all potential sensory modalities capable of conveying such information regarding local predation risk, visual and chemical cues have been the most widely studied.
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Sea stars feed by extruding their cardiac stomach over their prey, thus predation begins at the pinacocytic layer.
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I know it's not how Tolkien saw orcs, but I was raised in a world where the necessity of predators and predation is recognized and acknowledged.
Superversive: Website update
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Desert woodrats are vulnerable to predation by coyotes, raccoons, owls, gopher and rattlesnakes, and hawks.
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I have sent our folks out to gather fruit at a venture: and now this misery will soon be ended with his illness; driven away by deluges of lemonade, I think, made in defiance of wasps, flies, and a kind of volant beetle, wonderfully beautiful and very pertinacious in his attacks; and who makes dreadful depredations on my sugar and currant-jelly, so necessary on this occasion of illness, and so attractive to all these detestable inhabitants of a place so lovely.
Observations and Reflections Made in the Course of a Journey through France, Italy, and Germany, Vol. I
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Where sea otters are present, the urchins are limited by otter predation and kelp forests are abundant.
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So if the big fish are lost, there tends to be an explosion in the numbers of tiddlers, this not only stops any big fish from coming through, but also leads to increased predation on the prey fish.
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Always, always in war there were too few of heroic stature, to counter the depredations of tyrants and monsters.
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In nidifugous species, parental care consists largely of protecting the chicks from predation and teaching them where to feed.
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The potoroo suffered from predation by cats and foxes that were introduced to the area.
This seal was declared extinct in 1892. So what is it doing alive and well today?
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Sigsgaard, L. 2005 Prey preferences of A. nemoralis and A. nemorum (Heroptera: Anthocoridae) and their predation behaviour towards Pear psyllid, Cacopsylla pyri.
Contributor: Lene Sigsgaard
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Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep
Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep
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The treaty evolved to preserve the fragile balance of ownership and nonownership and to protectTerra Incognita from the depredations of exploitation and warfare.
Terra Incognita
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Property rather than the people themselves were the victims of his depredations but his attacks were aimed just as much at the civil will as the morale of Confederate soldiers.
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The wolves have come back in numbers better than anticipated, and ranchers have lobbied for a return of sport hunting, to keep the wolf population numbers down and minimize "depredation"-that's cow-country jargon for "killing cattle.
Boing Boing
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Furthermore, the importance of predation can be seen as yet another element in the disturbance picture.
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In this study, we examine how the size structure of benthos in lakes and predation by fishes were related over five years under seminatural gradients of fish biomass and predation pressure in three north-temperate experimental lakes.
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In relatively benign environments, predation is the dominant biological interaction that structures communities. 2.
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The worst depredations upon the environment, give or take a few, have all been inflicted in the last twenty-five years -- the duration in which markets have gotten freer in the U.S., and the population explosion globally has been regarded a surmountable triviality.
Environmentalist Forecasting Model, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
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Grazing and predation as related to energy needs of stage I zoeae of the Tanner crab Chinoectes bairdi (Brachyura, Majidae).
Past variability in Arctic marine systems
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From this, you immediately see where the Beeb is coming from: the munificent, caring EU has delivered unto us with wonderful law which protects us – and the sacred environment – from the depredations of irresponsible and polluting car owners.
Love is blind
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In relatively benign environments, predation is the dominant biological interaction that structures communities. 2.
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There was suggestive but inconclusive evidence that predation rates also declined with increasing wave forces.
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They loot and impose depredations on the countries where they operate.
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There was no predation and there were no unmated males in our population.
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The extent of predation on nests of bee-eaters is particularly significant in light of bioclimatic models that predict a rapidly increasing distribution of cane toads in Australia.
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Morphological similarities placing D. valgum in the same subgenus with non-predatory dung-feeding species suggest a major and potentially rapid behavioural shift from coprophagy to predation.
Archive 2009-01-01
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In the fiddler crab Uca pugilator, limbs that are lost due to injury or predation and as a result of the reflexive autotomy response, can be regenerated completely during a single intermolt cycle.
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The high casualty rate among smaller birds can be partly attributed to the depredations of their natural predators, the sparrow hawk and kestrel.
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The Original BRO-Log: Minister Faust Speaks: Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep
Predator countries reduce predation on eighteen sickliest sheep
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It is possible that odonate predation is not an important factor in the dynamics of this Ophiogomphus assemblage.
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If he ever really existed (which is possible, but unproven), he must have lived in the fifth century CE, when the Roman empire abandoned Britain to the predations of the vicious Saxon invaders.
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Thus far there are no serious signs of predation by crabs or starfish.
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His sanderlings, however, demonstrated a capacity for radically altering their behavior in direct response to an increased threat of predation.
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Predation of a prey by a predator usually takes much more time than the parasitization of a host by a parasitoid.
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Antipattern: The World Is Flat Why the bad solution looks attractive • In a fl at world, solutions should be universally applicable • Imitation is the cheapest form of fl attery Why it turns out to be bad • Localities and companies have unique cultures • Online ecosystems mimic natural ones: "Two different populations can not occupy the same niche at the same time" What positive patterns are applicable instead • The joke, the circus and the soap opera • Think about survival strategies: competition, predation, cooperation, and symbiosis.
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There was a man at Renfrew, where I came from, who had a kaleyard, and he was very much bothered with the depredations of a hootie craw-the corn crow-and. he got hold of a rat gin and put it out in his kale yard and covered it over and put some seed on top of it, and got his walking stick, and got behind the door to watch events.
Imperial Plans in Education
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To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery.
Ducks, dragons, and dictionaries
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If you can eliminate the alpha animals you can disrupt the predation until a new alpha pair is established or transient pack takes over the territory.
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Increased predation affects the survival of nests and broods immediately after hatching, when the chance of total loss is highest.
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Later, the oracular prophecies completed their awful and ironic cycle of fulfillment when Oedipus undertook a mission to save Thebes, still acknowledged as his native city, from the predations of a dire female monster, the Sphinx.
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Just four individuals who had felt the heat of the caatinga, tasted wild food or faced the fear of predation.
SPIX'S MACAW: THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD'S RAREST BIRD
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Peterson showed that fences in sand flats have little effect on rates of survivorship, missing clams, and predation on the clam when compared to unfenced open controls.
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They agreed with biologists and outfitters that predation and harassment were factors in the decline, but they vehemently disagreed with them about the role of weather and human hunting.
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In successful nesting seasons, when floods did not inundate the nesting ground and predation was not severe, many young titanosaurs would survive.
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The gangs are reported to have used racial taunts during their depredations.
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I wanted to capture a photo in which you would see a wolf in an act of hunting - or predation - but without blood, " he told BBC News.
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The otter is supposed to have been in the district for some time, for depredations that are now being laid to his charge have been going on for some considerable period.
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Disturbance after eggs are laid provides opportunities for predation by carrion crows, jays, kestrels, magpies, foxes and mink.
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An autopsy on the whale, known as a necropsy, would have to be done to narrow down the cause of death, Anna Hall said Monday, "but I would think that based on the wounds that I saw, it was killer-whale predation.
Canada.com Top Stories
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In northern Australia. predation by various insect pests, such as chalcid wasps, may cause considerable seed destruction.
Chapter 48
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Our ruling classes are to some degree restrained in their predations.
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Our results suggest that in eutrophic lakes fish predation on zooplankton may be more important than nutrient excretion by fish for the structure and dynamics of planktonic communities.
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The photographer wrote in the journal Arctic, "As the climate continues to warm in the Arctic and the sea ice melts earlier in the summer, the frequency of such intraspecific predation may increase.
Siku, Polar Bear Cub, Raised At Scandinavian Wildlife Park (PHOTOS)
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Second, adult giraffes are so huge they are not just tall, they are *huge*, I don’t think they get serious predation except maybe as babies.
Now that's a stretch - The Panda's Thumb
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If most elephants are tuskless, will they increasingly succumb to droughts, food shortages or predation?
The Times Literary Supplement
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They make good the depredations of history to give us a Rome that appears both whole and eternally modern.
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This theory suggested that polar marine invertebrates lack sufficient fish predation to drive natural selection for chemical means of protection.
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These wretches undismayed, unmoved by the terrors of the bombarding ravages around, strove and vied with each other in the committal of every act of the most unlicensed ferocity and depredation, breaking open houses, assaulting the inmates, murdering such as shewed resistance, denuding the more submissive of their clothing, abusing women — particularly in the Jewish quarter — to all which atrocities the Europeans were likewise exposed.
Travels in Morocco
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So, despite the great depredations of the slave trade, there was demographic growth.
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For a while they remembered their faults and losses; but no sooner were they revived by the hospitable entertainment, than their venom was again inflamed; they stung their benefactor, and neither gardens, nor palaces, nor churches, were safe from their depredations.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Despite protective laws and natural - park status, the depredations continued.
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The task of preserving the timber recently cut and of preventing further depredations _within the disputed territory_ was assigned to the State of Maine after her military force should have been withdrawn from it, and it was to be accomplished by a civil posse, armed or unarmed, which was to continue in the territory and to operate in every part of it where its agency might be required to protect the timber already cut and prevent further depredations, without any limitation whatever or any restrictions except such as might be construed into an attempt to disturb by arms the Province of New Brunswick in her possession of the Madawaska settlement or interrupt the usual communication between the Provinces.
A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 3, part 2: Martin Van Buren
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After that, the second section examines what he calls predation, "the systematic abuse of public institutions for private profit or equivalently, the systematic undermining of public protection for the benefit of private clients.
Predator State - Book Review
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They preyed on roe deer, red deer, and wild boar, but were also much loathed and dreaded for their depredations against livestock, especially sheep.
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Phase one will refer to the predations of the Neo-Babylonian empire as it sought to quell the Judean rebellions in 597 and between 589-587 BCE.
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The principal management problem is depletion of Komodo monitor prey stocks, such as rusa deer and wild boar, through predation by feral dogs and poaching.
Komodo National Park, Indonesia
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As the pasture in which Black Bruin had committed his depredation was a mile from the settler's house and not often visited except to salt the young stock kept in it, the real offender was not discovered, although it was apparent to the farmer that the heifer had been attacked by some wild beast.
Black Bruin The Biography of a Bear
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Clearly, the late Eocene ophiuroids and crinoids experienced little physical damage and limited predation pressure.
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He began to wish that his property might be attacked, feeling secure in his alertness, thinking that an over bold "badman" might come suddenly to the end of his depredations here.
Six Feet Four
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Loss of beachfront habitat and predation by domestic cats and introduced red foxes pushed the least tern to the brink of extinction.
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I tested the difference in clam survivorship and predation rates between caged and uncaged sand plots using t tests (after arcsine transformation of data).
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The larger species of angelfishes are protected from predation because their large size and thin bodies make them a difficult mouthful for predators.
Coral reef fish feeding behavior in the Caribbean
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That was the only evidence of nonmotile predation occurring in their immediate vicinity.
Drowning World
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Important ecological factors in modern communities include predation, competition, and ecological succession.
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Increased rainfall may affect nest survival positively by influencing predation rates.
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The most dramatic and perhaps most significant cause of natural mortality among gray whales is predation by killer whales.
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Female rejection behavior also may carry costs in terms of increased predation risk, energy expenditure, or wing injuries inflicted by spines on the male's forelegs.
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The adaptation of vertical eyes in smaller fishes may be a response to higher predations on smaller fishes.
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To protect themselves from predation they like rough land such as heathland, and coastal terrain with good cover, such as that provided by furze (gorse) and other dense shrubbery.
March « 2009 « Sentence first
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Ancestral ball-rolling behaviour shared by other canthonine species is abandoned, and the head, hind tibiae and pygidium of D. valgum are modified for novel functions during millipede predation.
Archive 2009-01-01
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In the previous post I discussed the basic anatomy and behaviour involved in lunge-feeding, a style of predation practiced by rorquals, the biggest, fastest and most dynamic of baleen-bearing cetaceans.
Archive 2006-10-01
