Sentence examples for forage vegetation from inspiring English sources

Here on Ellesmere Island, biologists attribute the sharp declines in Peary Caribou populations to the winter rains that have sealed vital forage vegetation under sheets of ice.

Cattle grazing was done for one month per year (early June to early July) to achieve 75% utilization of forage vegetation.

We utilize a recently completed ground reference vegetation data set extending over 12,000 km2 in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska to model the abundance of usnic lichen and other forage vegetation groups.

This is also partly due to the growth and dispersal rates of vertebrate host populations, particularly wild herbivores, which are strongly influenced by the quality and quantity of the available forage vegetation.

Assemblages of logged and unlogged disturbed plots consisted mainly of long-distance migrants and ground-foraging bird species, whereas assemblages of undisturbed control plots consisted of resident species that forage within vegetation.

For its first three months, a calf relies entirely on milk from its mother for nutrition after which it begins to forage for vegetation and can use its trunk to collect water.

Conversely, voles are burrow-dwellers that forage for vegetation and seeds in relatively open spaces, where they are heavily predated upon by both terrestrial and aerial predators [ 57].

To our knowledge selenium has not been studied in sheep forage or vegetation on sheep pastures in the Snæfellsnes County (Fig. 1) and the previous study of Jóhannesson et al. [ 3] on selenium and GPX activity was confined to farms in scrapie-afflicted areas.

Foraging on vegetation was pervasive across the study area and certain plants were consumed more often, especially in areas where they predominated and where polar bears spent substantial time once they were ashore.

Its wing morphology is quite different from that of M. schreibersii, with a lower aspect ratio (5.81), and rounded wingtips (wingtip index 1.71) suggesting that, like most Rhinolophids, it is able to forage close to vegetation in highly structured habitats.

Roll acceleration is clearly important for initiating and completing manoeuvres and several taxa that forage close to vegetation (for example Eptesicus nilssoni and Pipistrellus pipistrellus) have specialisations in wing morphology, such as broad wing tips, to enhance the aerodynamic rolling moment generated by their wings [40].