shoaling

The shoaling seems to be to provide protection while they rest.

The light was needed in the first place because of the considerable shoaling around the point.

Once beyond the shoaling, the break would lift everything maybe two yards in foam and water.

One common example is the shoaling of fish.

Extensive shoaling made the commercial boats travel to deeper inlets.

Some people have suggested that storms after the dredging in 1994 might have added to the shoaling.

Size is a sorting mechanism for conspecific as opposed to heterospecific shoaling.

Finally, he mentioned that the first increase in plankton biomass occurred before the shoaling of the mixed layer.

A number of estuaries along the Australian coast suffer from problematic shoaling or complete entrance closure.

Aggradation and eventual shoaling of the reef complex occurred over an additional six sea-level cycles.

It was a very interesting area, and there was a man with a horse, harvesting the mosses that grow along the shoaling.

Gamay grinned and swung the tiller to avoid the shoaling along the sides of the river, but she was far from sanguine.

Experiments were conducted to investigate the onshore shoaling of short crested waves incident on a sloping beach.

There are many situational factors that determine if the banded killifish individual would want to engage in heterospecific shoaling.

Predators have devised various countermeasures to undermine the defensive shoaling and schooling manoeuvres of forage fish.

The conditions in which shoaling occurs, the individuals who comprise the shoal, and the size of the shoal are all highly variable.

Shoaling of deep mixed layers is the result of restratification which occurs on timescales of weeks to months.

In fluid dynamics, wave shoaling is the effect by which surface waves entering shallower water change in wave height.

The sound and its ocean inlets are noted for wide expanses of shallow water and occasional shoaling, making the area hazardous for larger vessels.

Citizens of the downstream towns and cities such as Marysville became alarmed at the increased risk of flooding the shoaling of the rivers presented.

These results suggest that preferential shoaling with familiar conspecifics leads to an increase in cooperative antipredator behaviour and may thereby lower a minnow's risk of predation.

Preferring soft, acidic waters, these midwater shoaling fishes feed predominantly on small crustaceans, insects, worms, and zooplankton.

Banded killifish have been found to engage in heterospecific shoaling with other species of killifish as well as other fish.

Sverdrup's research results suggested that the shoaling of the mixed layer depth to a depth above the critical depth was the cause of spring blooms.

A panic struck the bravest hearts, The boldest cheek turned pale; For plain to all, this shoaling said A leak had burst the ditch's bed!