Sentence examples for foraging grounds for from inspiring English sources

An important site for grey and common seals to "haul out" on the sand to mate and rest, it provides foraging grounds for birds and the seabed is home to blue mussels and ross worm reefs.

Dams cause major habitat loss for freshwater and riparian species, flooding habitat and foraging grounds for some, but also taking away breeding and hatching grounds downstream, as well as reducing important triggers for events like spawning.

Riparian areas are often highly profitable foraging grounds for insectivorous bats [35], [36], and rivers are used as orientation landmarks by some species [37].

Evidence is mounting that in addition to acting as social refuges and foraging grounds for large visiting marine predators, seamounts may also support pelagic ecology by functioning as cleaning stations for oceanic sharks and rays.

Another reason for the higher intensity of arthropod herbivory on young trees might be that the relatively dense tree crowns of young trees provide less favourable foraging grounds for foliage-gleaning birds and bats that are active in the canopy and that prefer more open spaces [36], [46].

During the growing season, forest habitats are sufficient foraging grounds for bison (biomass of vegetation varies from 83 g/m in coniferous forests to 304 g/m in wet deciduous forest) (R. Kowalczyk, Mammal Research Institute, unpublished data) and offer good cover for resting, rumination and calving.

Nomadic Arab "settlers" have appropriated the lands of African farmers, and either used them as foraging ground for their livestock or claimed them as a means of increasing their wealth.

To avoid over-representation of potential relatives, bats of both species were captured using mist nets at foraging grounds (or for Rousettus, also near to roost entrances) rather than by hand-netting.

The need to increase duration of foraging trips due to distant foraging grounds during lactation has selected for an adapted otariid mammary gland, which remains functional despite sustained interruptions in suckling activity.

Post-nesting movements: Of the nine turtles with full internesting tracks, average time in the internesting mode before shifting to the transiting behavior mode and departing for foraging grounds was 2.7 days (SD = 2.8) (Table 1).

Turtles remained largely within a 30 km radius from the original nesting site before departing for distant foraging grounds.