This inactivity helps reducing water loss during hot periods, whereas winter hibernation facilitates survival during freezing temperatures and low food availability.

Saliency detection is considered to be a key attentional mechanism that facilitates learning and survival by enabling organisms to focus their limited perceptual and cognitive resources on the most pertinent subset of the available sensory data.

For example, strains could be evolved under conditions of high temperatures to observe the molecular changes that facilitate survival and reproduction under those conditions.

Animate spells he could understand, such as those of the unfortunate chameleon; they facilitated comfort, survival, or image for living creatures.

Sleep facilitates survival.

The plausibility of a connection can be argued from the cycles of other warm-blooded creatures, in which a drive to accumulate body mass during short-night seasons facilitates survival through long-night seasons.

Hypothesis: In the absence of local geothermal activity, the organisms are using the stones as an alternative heat source to facilitate survival during the forty-nine-point-one-hour nocturnal period.

The high mutation rate increases diversity within the viral population and facilitates survival in the face of host immune responses, depletion of target cells and antiviral therapeutics.

As described above, nurse plants facilitate seed germination and survival by alleviating stressful environmental conditions.

In some pathogenic species, an S-layer may help to facilitate survival within the host by conferring protection against host defence mechanisms.