Sentences with phrase «inflated predation rates»

So, even setting aside the complexities of source - sink dynamics, these inflated predation rates, combined with the fact that «the estimates of breeding density presented in this manuscript should be regarded as minima,» [3] raise serious doubts about whether the site is in fact a habitat sink (or, if so, to what extent).

More recently, Dauphiné and Cooper use the inflated predation rate suggested by Lepczyk et al. (along with rates proposed by other researchers) to arrive at their «billion birds» figure.

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What Lepczyk et al. have done serves just one purpose: to inflate apparent predation rates.

The two inflated figures described in (1) and (2) are multiplied together, further inflating estimated predation rates.