Sentences with phrase «food availability»

According to the researchers, the relation between season of birth and Type 2 diabetes was likely related to seasonal differences in food availability.

That seasonal runoff created a new pattern of food availability: seasonal patches of very abundant food spaced far apart over the course of the year.

Previous studies have suggested that temperature and, more specifically, atmospheric carbon dioxide levels influence body size more via an indirect impact on food availability and nutritional content.

Both datasets assessed healthy food availability by assigning points to various healthy options on the shelves.

These adaptations are the same that helped us survive, thousands of years ago, in periods of low food availability.

Increased food availability raises eviction rate in a cooperative breeding mammal.

Negative calorie balance is an important physiological state which allowed our human ancestors to stay alive during extended periods of limited food availability.

We have also noted that hunger and food availability influence what our picky eater is willing to try.

Food availability also helps determine how much and what you eat.

He hopes the map will help residents find fresh food and help policymakers assess food availability.

Their eating pattern revolves around food availability and they may not even eat every day.

Per - capita food availability has improved only slightly over the past 45 years, and land degradation has been identified as the principal environmental problem facing the continent.

Each of these groups traditionally had its own specific types of food fermentation, which reflected their respective staple diets and raw food availability in the region.

These rhythms have evolved to respond to differences predominantly in ambient light determined by the season and time of day (which governs food availability).

Having lived overseas, I can understand food availability.

Of course evolution of digestive capabilities doesn't imply differences in bodily nutrient needs, only differences in food availability.

The human body has well developed mechanisms for dealing with periods of low food availability.

Scientists say that the unusually warm waters that have been affecting food availability for mother sea lions near the Channel Islands have also been affecting the waters near Guadalupe Island.

People using TNR to manage a colony should make sure to reduce food availability as the population of the colony dwindles.

States would not be prohibited from setting nutritional standards to fit individual needs such as food availability and costs.

We are active within the political system on a broad range of issues that concern every New Yorker, from taxation, conservation to local food availability.

«This finding emphasizes the importance of adequate food availability in controlling TB incidence, particularly in areas with high HIV prevalence,» said Silverman.

Pletcher reckons eliminating the ability to smell CO2 may deprive flies of information about food availability.

Furthermore, the approach allows the investigators to assess the O2 consumption rates as a function of environmental drivers like food availability and hydrodynamics.

«Eudyptes penguins, ostensibly anchored in a reproductive strategy maladapted to a marine environment where food availability is less predictable, will continue to be highly threatened by climate change,» warns Morrison.

As carnivores may function close to maximum sustained power outputs, decreased food availability or increased activity may render some populations energetically vulnerable.

and colleagues at the University of Padova in Italy and the Swiss Federal Polytechnic of Lausanne used computer modeling to reconstruct the global network of food trade between 1986 and 2011 in conjunction with a population growth model, factoring in the constraints of food availability through domestic production and trade, and examined the response of the system to perturbations.

Early humans didn't have a system for tracking food availability so they mostly consumed what was readily available, like seaweeds.

«The effects of these events on global food availability and prices will be felt in the UK and around the world.»

As TreeHugger has long documented, changing food availability due to climate change as species adapt to a warming world at different rates, threatens many more species than boreal ducks.

The model suggests that there might have been a switch in the relative importance of these two effects in recent years, with spring food availability becoming a more important determinant than winter temperature of population size.

The Bengal Famine of 1943, a defining scar on the Bengali psyche, has been infamous internationally since Sen demonstrated — first in an article and then in his book Poverty and Famines (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1981)-- how famine did not occur due to «food availability decline» but rather the deterioration of «exchange entitlements» of particular groups in rural Bengal which denied them access to food.

Throughout his career, he «s tackled many questions about aquatic life, from how food availability affects species to how marine environments impact an organism's size.

Researchers identified the unique feeding pattern by studying food availability and the whales» population over the past 120,000 years.

«Favorable circumstances such as a higher ambient temperature and food availability allow incubating blue tit females to increase the time they spend off the nest to improve self - maintenance.

Practical solutions that limit food availability especially in the summer months can be very effective in the prevention of nuisance if applied thoroughly.»

«Examining food availability and the competition over such resources, especially where food is abundant, is essential to understanding the frequency of civil war in Africa,» says Ore Koren, a U.S. foreign policy and international security fellow at Dartmouth College and Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Minnesota.

«Also, a stream of evidence shows that climate and food availability play very important roles in the evolution of fecundity among species.

Forest cover helps maintain climatic conditions, including moist soil, which is an important factor for wood thrush food availability.

Maize crops are harvested later than most cereal fields, and therefore there is an increase in winter food availability.

This shows that the birds have a high ability of adapting and that they have learnt to exploit the high food availability in the Danish landscape,» says Kevin K. Clausen.

«Our data indicate that it is primarily food availability, and not changes in winter temperatures and hunting pressure, that determines where the geese stay in winter,» says Kevin K. Clausen.

In 2006, the stores had an average healthy food availability score of 7.06 out of a possible 18.

The new work traces whales» increasing size to changes in food availability resulting from ice ages.