Sentences with phrase «primarily by bird»

Unlike Africa, where chiles were dispersed primarily by birds, in India they were spread by more deliberate cultivation.

Not exact matches

The birds that migrate to the south side of the lake in winter still draw bird watchers, but that is primarily because all the marshlands in the Imperial Valley, where the Salton Sea lies, are taken up by agriculture.

This research was funded primarily by RSRT through the MECP2 Consortium, an unconventional collaboration between our lab and the labs of Adrian Bird and Gail Mandel.

The bald eagle was nearly extinct in the continental U.S. by the late 20th century, but the population has since stabilized, primarily due to habitat protection and a ban on DDT, an insecticide that weakened the birds» eggs so much that the eagles could not produce viable offspring.

Or the reports — including one by Marra's colleague — about decapitated birds being the work primarily of other birds?

Most importantly, the paper cited above plainly states that there is a low frequency of infected meat (which happens when infected rats and birds primarily, which are known as intermediate hosts, defecate in the food supply after being infected by ingesting T. Gondii parasites).

The latest IUCN reports are very depressing in this regard — as I said yesterday, 10 - 40 % of well known taxa (fish, birds, mammals, reptiles etc.) are endangered, primarily by human activities.