Sentences with phrase «grazing on plants»

Without their crucial landscaping services, including grazing on plants and leaf litter, biomass builds up on the forest floor and frequently causes wildfires.

Scientists have long wondered how this transition occurred, and whether herbivorous dinosaurs first developed the beaks used to graze on plants or the stomachs needed to digest them.

Dairy products also provide iodine if the animals graze on plants growing in iodine - rich soils.

Not exact matches

This is done by adding compost on pasture to increase soil health, planting wind breaks and hedge rows to reduce soil erosion, planned rotational grazing of animals to best manage pasture health, and planting perennial grasses to increase underground root systems.

At issue is the right of the nomadic herdsmen to graze their cattle, which invariably infringes on the right of the farmers to plant and harvest their crops.

«My interest lies in helping people use and benefit from the resources on which their livelihood depends, from the fruit trees in the fields to the rangelands where cattle graze or the plants that provide food and medicine,» she says.

In some regions, greening could be caused by species change, with greener invasive plants replacing indigenous ones or bushes encroaching on grasslands that are used to graze cattle, Wang said.

For ranchers who depend on wide expanses of open land for grazing, losing several thousand acres in a fast - burning range fire denies them use of that land not only for the rest of the year but also for up to three years after that, while the plants regrow.

Researchers have dreamed up possible benefits for the shell differences, such as the saddleback flare letting tortoises stretch their necks higher upward in grazing on sparse plants.

For cattle, 22 years and more than 36,000 fecal measurements suggest that plants on U.S. grazing lands have grown poorer in protein, ecologist Joseph Craine of Jonah Ventures, in Boulder, Colo., and colleagues reported April 10 in Environmental Research Letters.

«Plants have evolved defense mechanisms to protect themselves, such as thorns, bitter - tasting berries, and in the case of certain types of grass, by harbouring toxic fungus deep within them that can be dangerous or even fatal for grazing animals,» says York U Biology Professor Dawn Bazely, who worked with University of Cambridge researcher Andrew Tanentzap and York U researcher Mark Vicari on the project.

There is also the perspective that the majority of plant - based grazing animals on this earth don't worry about whether or not they are slathering sufficient oil on their dinner or consuming enough nuts to create enough micro nutrient absorption.

In realistic terms, any major effort to supply additional plant protein for human consumption in the U.S. would require dismantling the nation's agricultural system, since most of American agriculture is directly or indirectly involved in producing livestock either through direct grazing on grasslands or by growing feed on cultivated land.

Note: these proteins are high in omega 3 fatty acids because the animals are allowed to graze on what nature intended — plants and not inflammatory and highly GMO'ed grains of wheat, corn and soy!

The average plant crop receives ten applications of pesticides — from planting to storage — while cows generally graze on pasture that is unsprayed.

Though it was a case report (and so by definition described only a single patient), it is consistent with data going back more than 50 years, when researchers in Finland blamed the consumption of milk from cows grazing on cruciferous plants for contributing to the national epidemic of goiter.

Outdoor cats can often be seen grazing on grass, which seems to be preferred to leafier plants.

Even their ancient cousin the wolf is omnivorous, engaging in the eating of plant matter with similar acts of grazing on grasses, as well as eating the plant matter out of the guts of their herbivorous prey.

Unlike humans and some other plant - eaters, rabbits are grazing animals who have evolved to subsist almost entirely on extremely fibrous, low - sugar foods such as hay.

All parts of the plant are toxic and this is a large concern for horse owners as they like to graze on the trimmings.

And naturally occurring dietary variety is not restricted to serpents; in a given day, any number of lizard species will likely dine on dozens of different invertebrate snacks, while tortoises will consume any edible plant that they wander across as part of their tedious but efficient grazing behavior.

It also satisfies the need to graze, can help control hairballs and can even deter grazing on household plants.

On the way to the first pass of the mountain, Abra Warmihuañusca (Paso de la Mujer Muerta - 4215m / 13828ft), we can see llamas and domesticated alpacas grazing in ichu, one of the few plants that grow at high altitude.

Manatees are herbivores; munching on seagrass and other plant life, resembling cows that graze for much of the day on land, bestowing upon them the nickname «sea cow».

Our Resort has been planted with over 3000 Australian Native trees and shrubs to attract a wide variety of birds and native flora (native orchids) We have a large number of kangaroos who graze on our golf course along side visiting emus.

IMO the only sense in planting forests would be on hilly land that can not be used for crops or grazing lands.

From left to right: Uroš tending to a newborn lamb; the Lafarge plant seen from behind Uroš» home; sheep grazing on the farm; greeting Florjan the donkey.

Moreover, the presence of these plant parts among pieces of charred and uncharred dung indicate that the barley may have been eaten by the livestock, which perhaps were allowed to graze on harvested fields or were fed grains and harvesting waste.»

Grazing livestock merely recycle a few compounds of nitrogen, all of which either return to the atmosphere or provide valuable nitrogen fertilizers for the plants they graze on.

Grazing livestock merely recycle a few compounds of nitrogen, all of which either return to the atmosphere or provide valuable nitrogen fertilisers for the plants they graze on.