Sentence examples for foraging ability from inspiring English sources

Improved foraging performance at older ages has been explained by an increase in foraging efficiency with experience in birds [11], related to improvements in foraging ability [12], diet choice [13] and access to better foraging territories [14].

We observe that the parameters ranged over six orders of magnitude, there was no trade-off in foraging ability for nitrate versus ammonium: plants that were efficient foragers for one form of nitrogen were efficient foragers for the other, and there was also no phylogenetic signal in the parameter estimates.

At Ross Island, scientists spent 13 years collecting data on the foraging ability of chick-rearing Adelie penguins, which are dependent on year-round sea ice.

These results confirm that in release experiments, differences in anosmic birds' motivation and foraging ability are unlikely to preclude a real navigational effect of being denied olfactory information and so provide a key progression in our understanding of seabird navigation.

Our choice not to sham-treat control birds with respect to the zinc sulphate treatment does not impact the inferential power of this result, since it is therefore known that control birds did not have reduced foraging ability that could be attributed to the physical procedure of nasal irrigation.

Domoic acid reduces spatial memory and, likely, foraging ability in California sea lions.

Protozoan grazing alters microbial diversity and function in the rhizosphere and also strongly affects root architecture and root foraging abilities of plants.

Dolphins, particularly those of the genus Tursiops, are well documented as having diverse foraging abilities and behaviours.

If the 2004 and 2005 coho releases had poor health, their predator-avoidance and foraging abilities would have likely been compromised.

Future studies could usefully focus on the nesting and foraging abilities of P. chinensis relative to termite nests and their inhabitants, the effects of termite resources on P. chinensis colony growth and behavior, and the direct and indirect effects of P. chinensis on termite densities and decomposition rates within forests.

This experiment was specifically designed to prevent stereotypic behaviour and to observe rats' foraging abilities under more naturalistic conditions.