Maintenance of daily intake through bite mass diversity adjustment in sheep grazing on heterogeneous and variable vegetation

Applied Animal Behaviour Science

Volumn 91, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 35-56

  Agreil, Cyril ^a   Fritz, Hervé ^b   Meuret, Michel ^a  

^a INRA Ecodeveloppement   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Bite; Feeding choices; Foraging behaviour; Intake rate; Rangelands; Sheep

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FOOD INTAKE; FORAGING BEHAVIOR; GRAZING; SHEEP; VEGETATION STRUCTURE;

OVIS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 16244394050     PISSN: 01681591     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.applanim.2004.08.029     Document Type: Article

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