Sentence examples for diet foraging from inspiring English sources

The results imply that at least one species of hominin had already become a generalist that had adapted to a broader diet, foraging opportunistically in more open terrain for a wider range of foods than chimpanzees preferred, says anatomist Christopher Dean of the University College London.

We therefore created a functional group matrix based on diet, foraging ecology and nesting habit that is more suitable to Neotropical ants.

Inter-annual variability in the environmental conditions of Bass Strait has been shown to influence the diet, foraging behaviour and breeding performance of marine predators in the region (Mickelson et al., 1992; Gibbens and Arnould, 2009; Ropert-Coudert et al., 2009a; Hoskins and Arnould, 2014; Knox et al., 2014).

Other than habitat variables, nine types of eEOVs for Southern Ocean taxa are identified within three classes: state (magnitude, genetic/species, size spectrum), predator prey (diet, foraging range), and autecology (phenology, reproductive rate, individual growth rate, detritus).

Although their diets, foraging movements and fisheries interactions have been studied extensively in recent years, relatively little has been shown about how albatrosses find their food in the open ocean [2], [3].

Sun et al. (2015) report an increase of S. bovis population by replacing cornstarch in a high-concentrate diet (forage to concentrate ratio = 40 60) with 3% sucrose after 24 h in vitro incubation.

Whereas DM intake was higher for the MS-based diet, forage type and extruded linseed had no significant effect on milk yield, milk fat, protein, or lactose concentration, methane production, or methane per kilogram of DM intake or milk yield.

The scope of effect depends on the nature and amount of the dietary fat and on the existence of interactions between the basal diet (forage type, starchy concentrate, etc).

Some scientists have suggested that polar bears may supplement their diet by foraging for food on land, turning to sources such as caribou and geese.

Diet and foraging behaviour of the semi-aquatic Varanus mertensi (Reptilia : Varanidae), Wildlife Research 32(1):67 74 | doi 10.1071/WR04040 [free] Beata Ujvari, Hee-chang Mun, Arthur D. Conigrave, Alessandra Bray, Jens Osterkamp, Petter Halling and Thomas Madsen (2013).

The production parameters were significantly affected by genotype, diet and foraging material.