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Once the intron is lost, the site is ripe for re-invasion.
Such situations are viewed as opportunities that are ripe for exploitation.
Large numbers of ripe fruits or seeds frequently fall from these trees, either naturally or dropped by vertebrate frugivores.
During choice experiments, bats investigated ripe seed and gall figs using sight and smell.
Frugivorous birds fed on ripe fruits and rarely attempted to feed on unripe green ones.
Both squirrel species, in contrast, predated the seeds of ripe and unripe fruits.
A minimum of 10 ripe fruits on trees or freshly fallen fruits, were collected and weighed using a digital balance.
Now that scholars have reached such widespread agreement, at least on these three broad dimensions, the time is ripe for a fresh approach.
A dispersal event is defined as the occurrence of one or more ripe intact seeds of a given species in the sample.
Each follicle is bright crimson when ripe, remains closed and is firmly attached to the branch by means of a stout stalk.
Once the ripe fruit or seed is ready for removal the plant has little control over the actual dispersal event.
With strychnine controlling dingoes, and better land tenure, conditions were ripe for the end of shepherding.
Fully ripe acorns were obtained from the ground 15 days later.
From these data the monthly number of ripe fruit sources per kilometre trail were calculated and used in the analyses.
Giving significant portions of packages away to many other individuals is a ripe opportunity to gain abundant status points.
Hargreaves (1926) claimed this process to be counterproductive, as the practice of removing ripe and overripe berries takes a disproportionate toll on parasite populations.
A single three-quarters ripe coffee berry was placed on each vial.
The preface, time is ripe again for taking stock of foreign learners at whom the book is primarprogress in the study of language.
Has its popularity caused it to become so vapid as to be ripe for misuse?
We believe that the time is ripe to bring together, in one issue, articles covering all aspects of the technique.
Since then there has been an explosion of palaeoecological studies and the time is ripe for a new modern treatment of the subject.
The time was ripe for the development of progressive rock.
The time seems ripe, then, fifty years after the birth of modern linguistics, to reexamine its foundations.
The last edition was first published in 1991, so the time was ripe for an updated version.
On that basis, a technology that might be ripe for commercialisation would be parsing technology.
However, as the discussion here suggests, the conditions for judicialization of politics are particularly ripe in countries with divided sovereignty.
They made a much greater impact on respondents than the more widespread experience of people living to a reasonably ripe old age.
American doctors, it now seems clear, were ripe for the sharp turn against government that occurred in their ranks during this period.
Twenty self-harvesters harvested all ripe produce; seven left ripe produce at the subplot without harvesting it.
Whatever the composer's priorities were, his works are ripe for interpretation, especially where they have gained a lasting reputation through frequent performance.
Plant species with ripe fruit were found all year round with a minimum number of 16 species bearing ripe fruit in any given month.
We used ripe diaspores collected on the plant or fresh-fallen diaspores collected on the forest floor.
Ants were recorded on diaspores in a ripe or pre-ripe condition, and the number of workers ranged from 1 to 110.
All bicoloured displays presumably enhance conspicuousness of ripe fruits to birds, which could lead to higher fruit consumption and more seeds dispersed.
During each sampling day, two collectors walked through the study area and picked ripe fruits from the plants or collected them from the g round.
Another important trait for feeding selection is the external colour of ripe fruits, t hough little agreement exists o n t his topic.
In the field, the pulp of ripe fruits was dried in the sun and in a drying oven.
Bats consume only ripe seed figs and disperse their seeds.
To escape insect predation a seed should be dispersed when ripe figs were not abundant.
In 14 out of the 19 species we conducted comparative experiments between seeds from faecal samples and from fresh ripe fruits.
A dispersal event for a given species was defined as the occurrence of one or more ripe intact seeds of the species in a sample.
All remains were counted and assigned to various categories such as: intact ripe and immature fruits; discarded ripe skins; whole (spat) seeds; and insect-damaged fruits.
All values are for ripe seeds unless otherwise indicated.
The seed coat is thin (<1 mm), with the outer surface opaque, yellowish (ripe seed) and slightly wrinkled; seminal stigmas not perceptible.
The high, mean and low values for each component in each season are given for ripe and unripe fruit separately.
Ripe fruits were frozen and brought to the laboratory for measurements.
The sheer force of personality, musical and otherwise, made it ripe for commentary.
The exposed grapes on the ears usually receive the most direct sunlight and become the ripest grapes on the cluster.
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