Sentences with phrase «of 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.

But Pontzer's team thinks the irregularity of food availability in the orang - utans» habitat in south - east Asia has led the animals to evolve an especially thrifty metabolism.

But Pontzer's team thinks the irregularity of food availability in the orang - utans» habitat in south - east Asia has led the animals to...

Yet when the ecological balance of food availability and predation are considered, the contradiction makes more sense.

«Rainfall often affects food availability, and cooperatively breeding mammals appear better able to cope with the uncertainties of food availability during periods of drought,» said Lukas, from Cambridge's Department of Zoology.

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.

Penguin chick weight at the time of fledgling, when they leave the nest, is considered an important indicator of food availability, parental care and environmental conditions at a penguin colony.

«Whatever cues they're relying on to move northward for spring might not be reliable predictors of food availability once they get there if the onset of spring at these higher latitudes is amplified by future warming,» Post explains.

In particular, the report cites the effects increased temperatures and heat waves have on essential food crops — in most cases lowering productivity — and warns of food availability and price swings that could lead to civil unrest in countries that are already having problems meeting the basic needs of their citizens.

Assessing Vulnerability of Food Availability to Climate Change in Hai District, Kilimanjaro Region, Tanzania