Sentences with phrase «of herbivorous»

Fish farming, largely of herbivorous species, is the fastest growing source of animal protein worldwide, increasing by an average of 7 percent each year since 1995.

On Santa Cruz Island, we interviewed a prominent marine biologist whose work demonstrates that the removal of herbivorous reef fish allows for the spread of algae that inhibits coral growth.

This, in turn, supports the rapid growth of algae that feed the local strains of herbivorous fish.

In a well - studied example from Alaskan kelp forests, [24] sea otters (Enhydra lutris) control populations of herbivorous sea urchins through predation.

The main benefit hay offers to the health of herbivorous pets comes from its high fiber content.

For the most part, they would only eat plant foods when they gobbled up the guts of herbivorous prey animals.

The produce found in your cat's food is placed there to mimic the stomach contents of herbivorous prey.

Because most of us spend our childhoods surrounded by cats and dogs, we are often baffled by the dietary habits of our herbivorous pets.

Because we are creatures who thrive on the spice of variety, the monotonous diets of our herbivorous bunnies may strike us as depressing.

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.

The higher concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide throughout the PETM decreased the nutritional value of plant material, however, leading to a temporary decrease in the size of some herbivorous insects and mammals.

My own research expertise is in host selection behaviour of herbivorous insects, and particularly insect olfaction.

Although there are a million or more species of herbivorous insects, any individual plant species is resistant to the vast majority of these.

I am specifically interested in behavioral adaptations of herbivorous insects that may have adaptive functions in foraging, and have begun exploring nocturnal herbivory as one potential mechanism.

While the outlook for reefs in the fact of today's rapid global warming is exceptionally serious, the authors provide remedial options for management interventions that will increase reef resilience, including: a) reduce the harvest of herbivorous fish to sustainable levels, b) protect sharks and other top predators, c) manage all aspects of water quality, and d) diminish direct anthropogenic impacts and stressors.

Entomologist Matan Shelomi, affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology in Jena, Germany, spent years studying the gut microbiomes of herbivorous stick insects (Phasmatodea).

Work on Aquarius has so far given valuable insights into the physiology of corals and their symbiotic algae, the effects of herbivorous fish on coral growth, and the resistance of sponges to higher temperatures and levels of carbon dioxide.

He was first tempted into marine science by a trip to the coral reefs of Saudi Arabia, where he studied behaviour and coexistence of herbivorous fishes.

«A stable and healthy reef includes a high abundance and diversity of predatory fish and a relatively low number of herbivorous and small prey fish,» says study lead author April Boaden, a PhD student at the Coral CoE.

This plant is subject to attacks by a diverse set of herbivorous insects and is pollinated by wild bees.

The toothy dino belongs to a group of herbivorous, bipedal dinosaurs common in the Cretaceous Period.

Supervised by Prof. Konrad Fiedler, our project at the University of Bayreuth on the diversity and role of herbivorous insects started in spring of 1999.

Many hundreds of herbivorous species have switched to novel, sometimes toxic, food sources introduced by humans and have come to specialize in consuming those new resources.

Farrell analyzed highly conserved DNA sequences from 115 species of the herbivorous beetle subfamilies, sampling up to six species from each, to create a phylogenetic tree showing the likely evolutionary relationships of today's beetles and when they diverged from common ancestors.

Together, their known 135,000 species comprise some 80 % of all herbivorous beetles and almost half of all herbivorous insects.

Moabosaurus belongs to a group of herbivorous dinosaurs known as sauropods, which includes giants such as Brontosaurus and Brachiosaurus, who had long necks and pillar - like legs.

Beyond teeth, when we compare the anatomy of humans with that of herbivorous animals and of carnivorous animals, physiologically, we resemble the herbivores substantially more than we do the carnivores.

The pale pink ladies» top - designed by Tee & Cake for the fashion giant - is emblazoned with the word «vegan» underneath an image of an herbivorous dinosaur.

Not exact matches

Their herbivorous diet is low in energy and lacks much of the nutrients needed — like fats and protein — for a balanced meal.

Compared with these beaked and taloned graspers of the world, saints are herbivorous animals, tame and harmless barn - yard poultry.

«We started The Herbivorous Butcher to bring you small - batch, locally - sourced, all - natural meat alternatives that are always fresh, flavorful, and protein - rich so you never feel like you're sacrificing anything for healthy and ethical eating,» they write on their website of their selection.

Set up by brother and sister team Aubry and Kale Walch, The Herbivorous Butcher is the first of its kind to use only plant - based food.

Herbivorous «lobster» rolls and «crab» cakes use hearts of palm in a way that will win hearts everywhere.

That layer also contained numerous fossils of Maiasaura, a type of large, herbivorous duck - billed dinosaur, or hadrosaur (SN: 8/9/14, p. 20).

Based on the shape of their teeth and jaws, large plant - eating dinosaurs are generally thought to have been exclusively herbivorous.

The businessman went on to describe a grand vision — a «Pleistocene Park» housed on 150 acres north of Toronto, where visitors would pay to see the herbivorous beasts.

For example, the giant panda — another mostly herbivorous mammal — eats bamboo shoots on different parts of the bamboo at different times of year.

Using herbivorous tortoise beetle populations in Florida's Apalachicola National Forest — where management areas experience controlled burns on a three - year burn schedule — a team of FSU researchers found evidence that factors like time since fire and population levels in surrounding areas can predict recolonization patterns in patches disturbed by burns.

The study found that the carnivorous Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus were capable of a wide gape (up to 90 degrees), while the herbivorous Erlikosaurus was limited to small gape (around 45 degrees).

The reconstruction of the discovery site suggests that carnivorous dinosaurs hunted herbivorous island - dwelling dinosaurs about 154 million years ago.

A compilation of studies suggests that as temperatures rise, herbivorous mammals will suffer greater effects from the toxins they eat, with animals living in dry regions at particular risk.

As an international study conducted by the University of Zurich based on 3D reconstructions of animal skeletons reveals for the first time: Herbivorous mammals have bigger bellies than their usually slim carnivorous counterparts.

The herbivorous ornithischians were a really diverse bunch, with a spectacular array of frills and armors and horns and crests.

The result: On average, herbivorous mammals have a body cavity that is twice as big as carnivores of a similar body size.

Isotope evidence was corroborated with morphological comparison of Gastornis bill anatomy relative to that of extant birds, which suggested that the large muscle attachment area in Gastornis jaws is similar to that found in herbivorous species.

Angst et al. conducted carbon isotope analysis on fossils of Gastornis and several contemporaneous herbivorous mammals across several European sites and compared these to isotope profiles from extant birds with known diets.

Prairie dogs are herbivorous rodents of the squirrel family, and forage aboveground from dawn until dusk.

Other herd traces can be found in the Purgatoire River valley in Colorado, where trackways made by herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs are overlaid by delicate three - toed prints made by packs of meat eaters that were trailing the herd.

Consequently, after the dissemination of this research, «the typical description of aphids as sap - sucking insects and, therefore, strictly herbivorous, should be nuanced,» according to David Martínez.

That oddly textured pebble, scientists report at the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology meeting, is actually an endocast — an impression preserved in the rock — that represents the first known evidence of fossilized brain tissue of a dinosaur (likely a close relative of Iguanodon, a large, herbivorous type of dinosaur that lived about 133 million years ago).