Sentence examples for availability of foraging from inspiring English sources

This study area, Maamora, has an old-growth forest structure incorporating a broad range of size and condition of live and dead trees, favouring Great Spotted Woodpecker by providing high availability of foraging and excavating sites.

Ideally, overwash restoration will sustain the availability of foraging habitat, but future foredune modifications may be necessary to maintain or increase overwash processes and piping plover habitat in the project area.

Although habitat quality usually is understood from a multidimensional niche space approach, the availability of foraging substrates can be a suitable and more proximate index of habitat quality for species with specialized habitat requirements, like woodpeckers that feed almost exclusively on larvae of wood-boring beetles in the trunks and branches of infested trees.

The foredune unexpectedly acted as near-total barrier to both overwash and wind, and the dynamic ecosystem underwent undesirable habitat changes including conversion of early-succession beach habitat to herbaceous and shrub communities, diminishing availability of foraging habitat and thereby reducing productivity of the Federally-listed Threatened Charadrius melodus (piping plover).

Landscape variables, such as distance to nearest site with trees, percentage of landscape with trees, and availability of foraging sites for monk parakeets around the crop fields were more important than local variables in explaining monk parakeet damage to crop fields.

Temporal variability in the availability of forage reduces the production and economic performance of livestock systems.

Consequently, land productivity and availability of forage was improved which substantially contributed to the betterment of people's livelihood.

Supply – They found seasonal variation in production associated with the dry season and lack of availability of forage and pasture seeds.

The number of years a pastoralist stayed in an area positively influenced the distance to grazing areas and therefore reduced availability of forage.

Environmental and anthropogenic factors influence the composition and structure of grazing land (Gwali et al. 2010) and thus affect the availability of forage for the livestock species.

And Bougouni's respondents were more likely to report a decrease in the availability of forage resources and water, and soil fertility.