Sentences with phrase «chances of surviving depended»

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He has found that a nest's chance of survival depends on the predator's technique — broods are least likely to survive (10 %) when the predator manages to get into the cavity through the existing entrance, more likely (29 %) when the predator uses its paws or beak to pluck out the nest contents, and most likely to survive (39 %) when the predator tries to enlarge the opening or make a new one.

Also, insects depend on their surroundings for body warmth or cooling, so changing temperatures make a huge difference in their lives, says coauthor Dilip Venugopal, an applied ecologist working as a policy fellow at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. Pests evolving resistance to Bt might do so faster when a warming landscape, for instance, lets them squeeze extra generations into a year and gives earworms a better chance of surviving the winter.