Sentence examples for more efficient foraging from inspiring English sources

This may reflect more efficient foraging on a few numerically dominant and abundant resource species.

Self-regulation and verbal working memory did not seem to affect foraging strategies, but both were connected with faster and more efficient foraging.

We hypothesize that an important reason for male and female tropical bats to form long term aggregations is to profit from more efficient foraging via information transfer, postulated previously as a reason for sociality in males of narrow-winged temperate-zone species [2].

Group living in fish can provide benefits of protection from predators and some parasites, more efficient foraging for food, increased mating opportunities and enhanced energetic benefit when swimming.

Although honest signalling may benefit pollinators by enabling more efficient foraging, honesty may not always be the best policy for plants if plant populations comprise morphs that differ in their pollen rewards (e.g. gynodioecious or dioecious species) or if they benefit from additional visits (e.g. Karron et al. 2006) even after rewards are depleted.

Although females have been shown to prefer more efficient foragers, the effect of males' foraging techniques on female mate choice has never been studied.

As the tactic worked and the genomes of successful communicators survived, the robots became more and more efficient at foraging.

From ecology has come the "optimal foraging theory," the idea that efficient foraging behaviour should maximize an animal's net rate of food intake.

Less efficient foraging could diminish animals' health, with possible negative effects on their ability to reproduce.

The six birds that exploited both habitat types thus exploited their non-trained habitat type only rarely and were significantly more efficient at exploiting the foraging tasks they had been trained on initially.

Even though female mate preferences did not seem to be affected by either foraging technique or foraging performance in our mate choice apparatus tests, outside our experimental context females may still choose mates that are more efficient in learning a novel foraging technique by assessing the males' songs.