Because they devour large quantities of plants, herbivores such as the Chinese grass carp are used experimentally to control vegetation in weed-choked waters.
The giant sauropods such as Diplodocus and Apatosaurus must have required large quantities of plant food, but there is no direct evidence as to the particular plants they preferred.
Large herbivores consume large quantities of plant biomass that will therefore not enter the detrital food web.
Several freshwater herbivorous fishes such as grass carp do not rely on microbial cellulolysis, but rather pass large quantities of plant material rapidly through the gut [ 6- 9].
Herbivorous lepidopteran larvae consume large quantities of plant material over the course of their development from neonate to late instar larvae, increasing as much as up to 20% of their total body weight per day [ 9, 10].
Based on the fruitful and large quantity of local plant resources of Shannxi Province, several plants have been investigated in our work for the application in oilfield chemistry.
The anthropogenic introduction of large quantities of flowering plants has occurred both in arable and urban habitats.
As in all other duck-billed dinosaurs, the dentition was expanded and adapted for chewing large quantities of harsh plant tissues.
Yadeta Bekri, a 23-year-old man operating from England, is facing a potential life prison sentence in the US after being charged with trafficking large quantities of the plant that were obtained from Yemen, Kenya and Ethiopia.
