alternative prey
collocation in Englishmeaningsofalternativeandprey
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alternative
adjective
uk/ɒlˈtɜː.nə.tɪv/us/ɑːlˈtɝː.nə.t̬ɪv/
An alternative plan or method is one that you can use if you do not want to use ...
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prey
noun[U]
uk/preɪ/us/preɪ/
an animal that is hunted and killed for food by ...
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The availability ofalternativepreymay have affected the quantities of slug consumed, but clearly did not prevent the beetles from reducing slug populations.
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Such systems depend upon temporal separation between periods of maximumalternativepreyavailability and periods of pest abundance.
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At the same time we tested the hypothesis thatalternativeprey, and prey diversity, would have a positive effect upon carabid fitness.
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The mean individual slug weights were greater in treatments withalternativepreythan where noalternativepreywere provided to the carabids.
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Numbers ofalternativepreyintroduced to each plot are given in parentheses.
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The hypothesis that access toalternativepreycan lead to reduced pest suppression under semi-field conditions was tested.
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Significantly fewer slugs survived where noalternativepreywere provided.
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These results suggest that pests may survive and reproduce more rapidly in patches where predators have access toalternativeprey.
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Alternativepreystrongly affected carabid fitness in terms of biomass and egg load.
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Both interpretations could be true under different circumstances, but availability ofalternativeprey is rarely, if ever, considered as the primary factor driving the observed dynamics.
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In addition, we tested the hypothesis that a higher diversity ofalternativepreywould reduce still further the ability of the beetles to limit slug numbers.
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Growth in beetle weight, and crop biomass, may have been affected by the presence ofalternativeprey.
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May the goals of encouragingalternativepreyand biodiversity, and seeking biocontrol of pests, sometimes conflict?
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May not the fittest predators, replete withalternativeprey, be the least effective at controlling pests?
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The most probable scenario is thatalternativepreyhelp to balance the nutritional requirements of the spiders, enabling them to exploit aphids as a food resource while maintaining predator fitness.
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Within year, therefore, reproductive numerical responses will not have time to operate, and spatial numerical responses will be limited, restricting responses by the predators toalternativepreyto functional responses.
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The effects ofalternativepreywere taxon-specific.
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However, in theory, this effect may be negated if the availability of a greater abundance and diversity ofalternativepreydiverts predators away from feeding on pests.
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This apparently counterintuitive result may be due to the snakes utilizing somealternativeprey, the abundance and spatial distribution of which was not examined in this study (fish).
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Locally,alternativepreyanimals (usually comprising less than 20% of prey intake) include hares, moles, shrews, weasels, thrushes, grouse, grey jays, small hawks and ducks.
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