However, in this study competitors were not allowed to feed on the algal tiles, allowing the focal individual more algae to
feed upon. It is beneficial to have a higher feeding rate in the presence of many competitors to insure enough food is acquired.
Samples of material trapped in vents below the flagged floors of the granaries are expected to reveal the nature of the foodstuffs and other goods once stored in the buildings, together with the bones of rodents that attempted to
feed upon them.
The Manchester United defender said: "There was not a lot of space and service for Wayne to
feed upon against Macedonia - but that will come.
It seemed to
feed upon itself, sucking up anything and everything in its path.
to its author and Dracula is a novel about an arch-consumer, the vampire, who feeds upon middle-class women and then turns them into vampires by forcing them to
feed upon him.
But all of them
feed upon their host thereby causing discomfort, loss of condition and sometimes actual disease.
If you wipe out the seagulls this will result in an explosion of the feral pigeon population, as seagulls
feed upon pigeons' eggs.
Three factors have to be present in order for mold to grow - moisture, warmth and organic material for the mold to
feed upon. Mold can grow in wood, drywall, carpet and dust, White said.
These superworms are active tropical insects that
feed upon dead wood.
Our data set was comprised mostly of foxes and cats (two species likely to capture and
feed upon bats), but we had no reason to suspect that their behavior would create a disproportionate opportunity for infection by L.
Eliminade is sprayed into the crowns of beetle-infested trees to feed certain insect parasitoids that, in turn,
feed upon beetle larvae.
On the basis of computer models and field samples, some researchers have suspected that such blooms dilute toxic metals by spreading them out among the much larger number of individual algae cells--and thus offering zooplankton less-contaminated algae to
feed upon.
At the same time, swarms of dogfish and skate have moved in to replace and
feed upon young cod, haddock and yellowtail.
This particular warrior's fearsome mandibles form a convenient ladder for the mites that
feed upon it - a surprising vulnerability in our enemy, and an oddly sympathetic one.
The danger, of course, is that noncompliance tends to
feed upon itself as compliant small businesses find that themselves tempted to adopt the practices of noncompliant competitors in order to survive.