Sentence examples for foraging preference from inspiring English sources
Some forereef lobsters shifted foraging preference between the forereef itself (63%), a shallow back reef area (10%), reef base (9%), and a deeper reef base area (4%), with undetermined making up the remainder.
Foraging preference, in turn, was correlated with nectar concentration and with age at foraging onset.
First we hypothesize that S. harmandi can adaptively integrate foraging preference with adult and offspring performance as it relates to host development stages.
The syndrome gave rise to the forager-Reproductive Ground Plan Hypothesis (RGPH), which proposes that the regulatory control of foraging onset and foraging preference toward nectar or pollen was derived from a reproductive signaling network.
Vitellogenin gene activity, moreover, has complex and broad effects on honey bee foraging behavior, and modulates sucrose responsiveness [30], foraging onset, and foraging preference toward pollen and nectar [7].
The pollen-hoarding syndrome of the honey bee consists of a common set of correlated behavioral phenotypes that include sucrose responsiveness, foraging preference, and the age at which bees initiate foraging [29], [30].
When wild flowers were at low densities compared to the monoculture, even the addition of small amounts of extra wild flowers had a large effect in shifting foraging preferences away from the monoculture.
Certain animals have foraging preferences for specific colors (e.g. red), that may be related to selection for carotenoid-rich food [7] [10].
However, differences in daily distances and thus in sizes of theoretical utilized pasture areas between species may be explained by their different foraging preferences and accessibility of pastures.
This is attributable to bee foraging preferences, where not all available resources might be used, especially for the oligolectic O. truncorum.
Descriptive statistics were used to summarize the data on the camel forage preference, relative abundance and species richness.
