Assertion: barred owl | /r/CapableOf | outcompete spotted owls
Facets:
value: for space
type: PURPOSE
value: for food
type: PURPOSE
value: for prey
type: PURPOSE
value: in old-growth forests
type: LOCATION
value: in some areas
type: LOCATION
value: for resources
type: PURPOSE
Source sentences:
text: We knew that barred owls were outcompeting spotted owls and their populations were going haywire.
text: Meanwhile, researchers, including Wiens, began documenting another threat — larger, more aggressive barred owls competing with spotted owls for food and space and displacing them in some areas.
text: We knew that barred owls were outcompeting spotted owls and their populations were going haywire.
text: In study areas within the Pacific Northwest, scientists observe a consistent trend: Barred owls have increasingly been detected in northern spotted owl territories, where they are outcompeting spotted owls for resources.
text: Barred owls are bigger, more aggressive, maintain a smaller territory, produce more young and are even outcompeting spotted owls in old-growth forests, what was once thought to be spotted owl strongholds.
text: Great horned owls and barred owls may compete with spotted owls for food and space in some areas.
text: Meanwhile, researchers, including Wiens, began documenting another threat — larger, more aggressive barred owls competing with spotted owls for food and space and displacing them in some areas.
text: Barred owls are native to eastern North America, but only recently arrived in the West, where they have competed with spotted owls for prey and habitat of mature forests in the Pacific Northwest.