Sentences with phrase «with native predators»

Not only do cats impact Florida wildlife through predation and spread of disease, but they can outnumber and compete with native predators, such as owls, hawks, and foxes.

Additionally, because they are subsidized by human care givers, cats occur at higher densities and compete with native predators for food, thus making it more difficult for native predators to feed themselves and their young.

Their results indicate there is no relationship between the density of lionfish and that of native predators, suggesting that, «interactions with native predators do not influence» the number of lionfish in those areas, the study said.

Not exact matches

They have little experience with sustainability per se, have done hardly any research into growing various crops under different native shade tree species and densities, and have very little * ecological * perspective (i.e., multi-year, cyclic, prey - predator and tree - weed interactions etc.).

The other native shrimp, G. duebeni, sometimes co-exists with the invader because it is a less effective predator.

The virus had likely rippled through the food web, starving these invasive predators, which had been devouring native species along with rabbits — a chain reaction called a trophic cascade.

However, new research suggests that smart fire and grazing management can help preserve the natural shelters that provide native animals with refuge from predators.

With people feeding these non-native predators, they have an unnatural advantage in nature, and are thus appearing at frequency rates 10 - 100 times greater than nature would allow (prey animals in a balanced ecosystem greatly outnumber the native predators).

For the next few posts, I'm going to critique three of the studies most often cited by these researchers, starting with Cole Hawkins» 1998 PhD dissertation, Impact of a subsidized exotic predator on native biota: Effect of house cats (Felis catus) on California birds and rodents.

Recoveries and cascading declines of native mammals associated with control of an introduced predator

In the United States and Europe, with their much more robust sets of native predators, feral cats rarely flourish unless they are being fed by people.

Quick to reproduce and with no natural predators, these alien species decimated the habitats of native species.

The snakes not only compete with alligators to be the top predator in the swamps, but they may have contributed to the decline of a number of other species native to the Everglades.