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Foraging is searching for wild food resources. It affects an animal's fitness because it plays an important role in an animal's ability to survive and...

Forage fish, also called prey fish or bait fish, are small pelagic fish that feed on plankton and other tiny organisms. They are preyed on by larger predators...

The Feed and Forage Act of 1861 is legislation passed by the United States Congress that allows the Military Departments to incur obligations in excess...

concern such topics as the indigenous roots of foraging in America, the history of American foraging laws, and sustainable ways for her viewers to include...

follow a power law over a wide range of magnitudes: these include the sizes of craters on the moon and of solar flares, cloud sizes, the foraging pattern of...

Optimal foraging theory (OFT) is a behavioral ecology model that helps predict how an animal behaves when searching for food. Although obtaining food provides...

adult fish live in fresh water and migrate into salt water to spawn. Marine forage fish often make large migrations between their spawning, feeding and nursery...

they also may swim inshore). Pelagic fish range in size from small coastal forage fish, such as herrings and sardines, to large apex predator oceanic fishes...

detection and by diluting the chance of individual capture), enhanced foraging success, and higher success in finding a mate. It is also likely that fish...

officers to wear ballcaps instead of forage caps. As part of their authority to establish, maintain, and regulate law enforcement agencies, some provinces...

diverse a forage area is, the better for a stationary apiary. Urban, suburban, and uncultivated areas provide more consistent warm-season nectar forage than...

an optimality model that usually describes the behavior of an optimally foraging individual in a system where resources (often food) are located in discrete...

wilderness skills are put to the test as they must build their own shelters, forage their own food, and overcome numerous obstacles and dangerous predators...

from forage, herbivores of different body mass may be selective in choosing their food. "Selective" means that herbivores may choose their forage source...

flowering plant in the legume family Fabaceae. It is cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world. It is used for grazing, hay, and...

The African Pygmies (or Congo Pygmies, variously also Central African foragers, "African rainforest hunter-gatherers" (RHG) or "Forest People of Central...

The Lévy flight foraging hypothesis is a hypothesis in the field of biology that may be stated as follows: Since Lévy flights and walks can optimize search...

Fisheries law is an emerging and specialized area of law. Fisheries law is the study and analysis of different fisheries management approaches such as...

depend upon the public land forage for their livestock. The debate as to what degree mustangs and cattle compete for forage is multifaceted. Horses are...

other organisms. Humans have developed agriculture and cooking to replace foraging and advance human nutrition. Plants acquire nutrients through the soil...