Sentence examples for sensitive forage from inspiring English sources

An experiment was conducted to evaluate several types of sorghum as bioenergy crops in Alabama: grain sorghum – NK300 (GS), forage sorghum – SS 506 (FS), and photoperiod sensitive forage sorghum – 1990 (PS).

Models of risk sensitive foraging are mostly focused on foraging for survival (for a summary see [ 23]).

Consequently, models of risk sensitive foraging have been successfully applied to the problem of group formation [ 22].

The influence of variance in resource acquisition on foraging decisions has been extensively discussed in the context of risk sensitive foraging [ 16, 18].

Models of risk sensitive foraging analyze the influence of mean food availability and its variation on the benefits of variance reduction (e.g. by grouping and food sharing).

The potential consequences of this aspect of group living have not attained much attention in the context of risk sensitive foraging.

Models of risk sensitive foraging have shown that the mean amount of food an individual expects to acquire will strongly influence whether individuals should avoid risk and choose a more constant food supply or whether they should be risk prone and choose risky conditions with a high variance in foraging success [ 18- 20].

Contrasting predictions about such effects were derived from dominance theory and risk-sensitive foraging theory.

Past risk-sensitive foraging studies commonly manipulated delay to reward and reward magnitude, but recent risk-sensitive foraging research revealed that changes in reward quality resulted in changes in a forager's preference for a variable or fixed return.

Implications for the daily energy budget rule on risk-sensitive foraging are discussed in light of these findings.

Choice in twelve adults was evaluated against the predictions of a risk-reduction model of sharing derived from a risk-sensitive foraging theory (the energy-budget rule).