Sentences with phrase «juvenile survival»

The study concluded that there was a clear difference between the wandering albatross sexes: male body mass enhanced performance in adult survival, breeding success, chick mass and juvenile survival whereas this was not the case for females.

«In the wild, larger social groups of N. Pulcherrepresent a low - risk environment with enhanced juvenile survival.

Despite considerable interest, we still have a lot to learn about BC salmon — factors that determine juvenile survival during migration, susceptibility to disease, as well as how the six salmon species will respond to climate change stressors.

First, culling removed dominant individuals, which «allowed greater access to resources by remaining cats, thus promoting an increase in juvenile survival.»

Social practices of juvenile survival and mortality: Child care arrangements in Mexico City.

Our estimate of reproductive success spans the stages of gamete production, mating, spawning, egg - to - fry emergence and juvenile survival, and selection could have acted at any or all of these times.