Examples of 'prey item' in a sentence

Meaning of "prey item"

prey item: This phrase is often used in the context of wildlife or ecology to describe a specific organism that serves as food for a predator. It refers to the living creature or organism that is hunted, captured, and consumed by another animal higher in the food chain. Prey items play a crucial role in maintaining ecological balance and sustaining predator populations

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It is an important prey item of the giant grenadier.
Mammals are the most common prey item.
The size of the prey item increases as it ages.
They are a common prey item.
A single prey item was usually delivered per trip.
Eastern woodrats are a common prey item for many predators.
The individual prey item is apparently selected in a manner of seconds before the strike.
This rockfish is an important prey item for many other animals.
Then the prey item is swallowed whole or torn into pieces with the bill.
The snowshoe hare is a major prey item for a number of predators.
Rates of successful search varied directly with the size and inherent contrast of a prey item.
Superba represents an important prey item for this species in that area.
Crappie also search during the pause immediately following the attack and ingestion of a prey item.
This showed that krill is an important prey item for demersal fish.
The size of the prey item increases as they get older and larger.

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This warning signal is associated with the unprofitability of a prey item to potential predators.
Mawsoni as a prey item of Weddell seals in the southern Ross Sea.
We predict that this species may attack more than one prey item simultaneously.
Jiangjunosaurus may have been a prey item for the metriacanthosaurid theropod Sinraptor.
The spider Trochosa terricola is a known prey item.
Ringed seals are a critical prey item for polar bears in the North.
In the Atlantic Ocean sector krill is a major prey item.
There it has become an important prey item for the harbor seal Phoca vitulina.
For most ecological risk assessments, soil-dwelling invertebrates, such as earthworms, are often a target prey item.
Mawsoni as a prey item of Weddell seals and killer whales in the southern Ross Sea.
It is a seed disperser and pollinator, as well as a prey item for carnivores.
Sambars are a favorite prey item for Tigers and Asiatic Lions.
If processing a prey item results in a big enough benefit, you will spend longer capturing it.
In Pakistan, Nesokia indica is an important prey item in their diet.
Raschii is a major prey item of several taxa, planktivorous fishes and marine mammals.
E is the amount of energy ( calories ) that a prey item provides the predator.
They are an important prey item for sea lions, small cetaceans, and dogfish sharks.
Little shrimp-like organisms, copepods, are the main prey item for the little auks.
They are a major prey item for lions, cheetahs, leopards, African wild dogs, hyenas, and crocodiles.
The profitability of a prey item is then defined as E / h.
Conversely, they are a central prey item or forage fish for higher trophic levels.

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