predation

英 [prɪˈdeɪʃn]

美 [prɪˈdeɪʃn]

n.  (动物的)捕食，捕猎行为

复数：predations　

BNC.27521 / COCA.15336

牛津词典

noun

• （动物的）捕食，捕猎行为
  the act of an animal killing and eating other animals

英英释义

noun

• the act of preying by a predator who kills and eats the prey
• an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
  Synonym:depredation

双语例句

• This paper reviewed the new progress in the theory and hypothesis of population regulation in small mammals, focusing on the food hypothesis, predation hypothesis and multi-factorial hypothesis.
  对小型哺乳动物种群数量周期性波动的外因调节假说进行介绍，概述了食物假说、捕食假说和复合因子假说的主要内容和研究进展。
• And Socrates'answer is, of course, the predation of poetry and the arts in Books II and III.
  苏格拉底的回答是，当然，见第，II，与，III，册中，对诗学与艺术的描述。
• Effect on population dynamics of reed voles Microtus fortis by food, predation and interspecific competition
  食物、捕食和种间竞争对东方田鼠种群动态的作用
• Also, the competitors and predators of a species often don't reach an island, but competition and predation in the deep sea can be intense.
  竞争者和动物天敌通常也不会到达这个小岛，但是深海的竞争和掠食却很猛烈。
• And third, the uneven pattern of otter decline is better explained by the orca predation theory than by the pollution theory.
  第三，海獭数量变化的不均衡性恰好表明了逆戟鲸捕食理论比污染理论更合理。
• The course covers productivity and biogeochemical cycles in ecosystems, trophic dynamics, community structure and stability, competition and predation, evolution and natural selection, population growth and physiological ecology.
  课程包含生态系之生产力与生物地质化学循环、营养动力学、群落结构与稳定性、竞争与捕食、演化与天择、族群成长，及生理生态学。
• The time and intensity of seed predation can be a major selective force in the evolution of life-history traits in plants, such as germination rates and production of a soil seed bank.
  捕食者饱和现象被认为是植物和种子捕食者之间的高度协同进化作用的结果，是限制动物破坏种子、提高被扩散种子存活率的一种选择压力。
• It is particularly important in winter when the risks of predation are high and just one day without food can make the difference between life and death for small birds.
  特别是冬季，捕食风险很高，小鸟就一天没有吃的，就得面临被饿死的境地。
• Rent-seeking and Poverty: Production, Protection and Predation Model with An Assumption on Heterogeneity
  寻租与贫困：基于异质性假设的生产、保护与分利模型
• Before civilisation intervened, such chronic loneliness would have been so rare ( because isolated individuals are so vulnerable to predation) that evolution would have ignored it.
  在文明到来之前，这种常态性的孤独非常罕见（因为单独的个体易被捕食），进化就把它忽略了。