Sentences with phrase «allowing predator populations»
When both species are evolving, the traditional cycle may reverse, allowing predator populations to peak before those of the prey.
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And their high risk - taking behavior and competitive strength, coupled with the collapse of predator populations, allowed them to more than double their population.
«We found no evidence that climbing allows these salamanders to more fully exploit available food resources, which instead suggests that other mechanisms, such as competition or predator avoidance, might be important influences on salamander populations,» said Connette.
They also wanted to evaluate scientifically whether, as some speculate, that overfishing of reef predators had allowed the lionfish population to grow unchecked.
There are also many populations of native rodents and smaller marsupials within the park, allowing researchers to assess whether the dingoes suppression of smaller predators would prove beneficial to the smallest critters.
However, if people are stupid enough to feed feral cats or allow pets to roam outside, those cats become a starvation - proof predator population.
In nature, if predators deplete their prey supply, the depleted prey leads to predator starvation, so predator populations decline, allowing prey populations a chance to recover.
Territoriality also dampens growth of predator populations, contributing to the lagged response of predator to prey population growth and allowing fluctuating prey populations time to recover from low density in systems with linked predator and prey population dynamics3, 6,7,8.
And if you put a few things together, like a fire regime that doesn't help cats, a population of dingoes that hinders cats and maybe minimal livestock grazing that also means there's plenty of cover on the ground for small mammals to get refuge from predators, then we could allow cats and small mammals to co-exist.
«Alaskans depend on wildlife for food and cultural practices which can't be sustained when predators are allowed to decimate moose and caribou population,» Palin fires back to Judd and her team of haters.