Sentences with phrase «even scarcity of food»

Extra strength used to escape or fend off intruders, being chased by dogs or children or even scarcity of food and habitat can derail a bird's migration and nesting.

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Thus, the likelihood of achieving adequate nutrition may be lower in this group, even when concerns about food scarcity in the US are minimal.»

Shortages of fertile females were particularly common in times of food scarcity, when baboon troops distance themselves from each other and females take 15 percent longer between successive births — which means males who don't kill have even longer to wait.

Success in these twin facets of human sustainability will crack the unbreakable code of our most pressing global issues: climate change, food scarcity, water supplies, immigration, health care, biodiversity loss, even war.

A nutrient dense food that was easily stored and preserved for times of scarcity, famine, or perhaps even celebration.

Hidden in the depths of these woodlands, even on the steepest slopes, I found the remains of agricultural terraces, built and used in earlier times of scarcity when this marginal land was needed for food production.

Even as rain has come to the Horn of Africa, food scarcity continues in other parts of vulnerable continent: the UN recently warned that a food crisis could occur in South Sudan and Niger going into 2012.

Even being overweight or physically inactive in regions where we typically understand life to be characterised by scarcity of food, and hard physical labour are each bigger problems than climate change.

In fact, there are likely even more domains of childhood adversity that might be measured and added that could further improve its predictive ability, for example, low IQ, 40 parental death, and food scarcity.