Sentences with phrase «in times of food scarcity»

'' The organization of the females» response to the energy restricted diets is suggestive of some underlying mechanism that may allow for an organized, pre-programmed, response to enhance survival in times of food scarcity.

The research team suggests this mechanism may have played a role in evolution by stimulating animals to fatten up in times of food scarcity.

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.

The study authors suggest that this positive feedback loop may have served an important role in evolution, by prompting animals to fatten up when they stumbled across calorically dense food in times of food scarcity.

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This farm addresses that potential disaster and ensures the possibility of food production in times of scarcity with a system of 27 dams, soaks, tanks and high capacity bores.

Nations» propensity to cease food exports and hoard supplies in times of scarcity can form a massive multiplier of what would otherwise be a relatively minor impact.

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.

We are entering a time of chronic food scarcity, one that is leading to intense competition for control of land and water resources — in short, a new geopolitics of food.

They posit, in a similar vein, that when individuals are faced with many decisions that demand trade - offs — such as a scarcity of food, time or money — and do not have a chance to recover from the resulting brain drain, self - control can tank.