overwinter

The Svalbard barnacle goose, which overwinters in the Solway Firth, saw numbers plummet to just 300 by the 1940s but the population recovered to some 30,000 today.

The generation that flies south and overwinters lives about 8 months, whereas the other generations survive only about 6 weeks.

My father in law overwinters as many plants as he can in small conservatory but when he ran out of space an ancient son of the soil suggested the interment method.

The explanations for this pattern suggest three corollary hypotheses: virus "overwinters" in temperate rodent communities as persistent infections in older adult animals, which serve as a reservoir for reintroducing virus into susceptible young animals in the spring; spring antibody prevalence is a function of the population density (infectious and susceptible) the year before (the high fall population densities and higher spring antibody prevalence at the Colorado trapping webs in spring 1995 provide tentative support for this hypothesis); and deviations from typical environmental conditions alter the pattern of infection in potentially predictable directions.

The diapause trade-off hypothesis makes four specific predictions about the overwinter experiment: (1) there should be an optimal overwintering period that is long enough to ensure diapause termination but short enough to prevent excessive energy loss in pupae; (2) the apple race should be more recalcitrant to the effects of prolonged chilling than the hawthorn race because it overwinters for a longer period of time in nature - two expected manifestations of this are that apple flies should survive long winters better and eclose later than hawthorn flies when the two races are reared under standardized conditions; (3) as in previous studies (Feder et al.

inferens larvae have six instars, and usually overwinters in the fifth or sixth instar larvae in southern of Jiangsu province (Gu 1985; Ding & Su 2002).