Sentence examples for rate of forage from inspiring English sources

Grazing muzzles have been shown to slow the rate of forage intake.

These results demonstrate that hay nets were effective at decreasing the rate of forage consumption when feeding adult horses.

The objective of this experiment was to investigate the effect of hay net design on the rate of forage consumption when feeding horses.

Cultural techniques such as spatial distribution of plants and initial control of the growth rate of forage by applying herbicide sub-doses should be adopted for economic sustainability of intercropping between corn and forage.

By this logic, it is reasonable that we did not observe a linear relationship from SOI and PDO to rate of foraging success to pre-implantation trip duration to weaning mass.

Mean VeDBA (an index of energy expenditure) increased by a factor of three to eight (depending on stage) for both sexes, suggesting a higher rate of foraging effort, during years of presumably lower prey availability (P<0.001 in all cases; Fig. 1K,L).

With regard to the emergent properties of the developing mycelial cord, in comparison to the elemental hyphae, not only is there a faster extension of the nutrient-capturing cord apparatus, and thus a faster rate of foraging and nutrient acquisition, but there is also concomitant internal differentiation within the cord, which may facilitate its more rapid growth.

However, higher levels of forage allowance can cause lower intake rates of forage and nutrients.

Increased rates of forage depletion will tend to decrease residence times in patches [ 24].

Additionally, weavers foraged the most at feeding plates closer to cover, took the longest time to arrive at plates farthest from cover, and had higher rates of foraging and vigilance when farther from cover.

While the potential costs to colonies of unrestrained reproduction by workers are avoided in honey bees, even small increases in the proportion of workers with partial ovary development are correlated with meaningful decreases in colony productivity, specifically colony-wide rates of foraging and recruitment.