Sentence examples for time spent foraging from inspiring English sources

We further subdivide the gross energy income rate into two components: the foraging effort (tf, e.g., the proportion of time spent foraging per day), and the energy income per unit foraging time (E/t).

In the context of handling time (Fig.  4B), plants with low handling times have low time lags associated with nutrient uptake, meaning that within a prescribed amount of time spent foraging for nutrients (e.g. the duration of a foraging experiment), plants with low handling times are able to actually acquire more of the available nitrogen compared with plants with high handling time.

The increased time spent foraging exposes them to greater risks of predation.

Feed intake, bucket/zone visits and time spent foraging or moving were recorded.

To assess whether treatment affected the mass gained per unit time we ran a GLM with treatment (coded as a three-level factor), time spent foraging and the interaction between treatment and time spent foraging as predictors.

Besides, the time spent foraging in the boundaries of the HFC was greater than inside the HFC.

Within the Rainwater Basin region, shorebirds associated with wetlands varied in what proportion of their time was spent foraging, though overall foraging intensity was similar to what we observed by Buff-breasted Sandpipers in upland agricultural sites [18].

A lot of time is spent foraging for mussels, prying their shells apart, and slurping up the tiny reward inside.

The percent of time focal individuals spent foraging showed an increase over the course of the season (b = 0.03; F1, 61 = 9.3, P<0.004).

We later watched the recordings of the foraging sessions and measured the time that the fox spent foraging in each of the patches using two stopwatches.

Boiling up grains like wheat, maize and rice enabled humans to make more productive use of the time they had once spent foraging for meat and fish as hunter-gatherers.