Sentence examples for main forage from inspiring English sources

The eastern Rubʿ al-Khali, generally thought to be dry and barren, supports much plant life on the flanks of giant dunes, including a sweet grass called naṣī that provides the main forage for the now-rare oryx (a species of African antelope).

In trial 1, corn silage was the main forage source.

The grass specie was leymus-chinensis, which is the main forage in Northern China.

In northern regions oilseed rape belongs to the main forage crops that is mostly cultivated by means of intensive agriculture, including several pesticide treatments.

The objective of this study was to assess the effects of feeding mechanically processed barley silage as the main forage source on lactational performance.

The biomass of blue grama, the predominant grass species and main forage for cattle, has declined by more than 50%, while weedy flowers and other non-grassy plants have invaded and established a strong beachhead.

It is a tactile, non-visual forager, whose main foraging behavior is probing with its beak at the bottom of shallow water to feel form, and to capture its prey.

In addition to the behavioral experiments, we performed long interrupted observations of the colony's main foraging by video recording the movement of foragers along a small portion of the trail.

We classified the bats into three functional groups according to their main foraging habitat and hunting behavior following [4]: 1) open space aerial forager (M. molossus); 2) edge space aerial foragers (all other species except Noctilio), and 3) edge space trawling foragers (both Noctilio species).

They also incorporate species-specific traits, particularly main foraging stratum.

Table 1 situates the main foraging literature and places existing foraging systems within the proposed taxonomy.